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Portland Metal Band Red Fang Collaborated With Wieden + Kennedy To Create a Mobile Game Featuring Zombies and a Bearded Robot Skull

Inspired by 16-bit arcade games from the 90s, Red Fang: Headbang is a video game and music video for the band’s single “Antidote.” In the game, players navigate a Red Fang concert plagued by zombies with exploding heads, help some punks kick a car into pieces and fight comedian Brian Posehn in the form of a bearded robot skull that rises from the pit of hell.

Beloved Punk Dive Bar B-Side Tavern Has Finally Reopened Following a Long Recovery from Fire Damage

Early on a September morning in 2017, a fire that started on the bar’s back patio spread to its interior. The East Burnside dive, which was immortalized in a Red Fang music video, has been closed since then. But on Monday, B-Side quietly reopened. According to owner Tanya Frantzen, the drinking hole’s regulars have already begun to return, despite the fact that the opening was largely unannounced. “Our people have been waiting, and they’re excited,” says Frantzen. “I think it will just pick up where it left of

Remembering Influential Portland Soundman Patrick Kenneally

This month, Patrick Kenneally, the founder of legendary Portland club the Blackbird, passed away at the age of 43. Though the Blackbird was short lived, even local musicians who didn’t know Kenneally well were beneficiaries of his generous vision. In between Satyricon’s pro bono New Band Night and today’s pay-to-play arrangements that require emerging bands to sell tickets in order to get paid, The Blackbird was a brief golden ear in which even small local bands were paid and fed.
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