White Fang began as a group of friends in high school writing, according to the band's myspace "really precious songs about climbing trees and frenching girls." They played their first real gig in Vancouver, BC, telling their parents they were going on a camping trip. After that, they began expanding. They tackled audience members during shows, and branched out past their local Portland neighborhoods. Marriage Records took the band under their wing, and after high school the band moved into a house dubbed "SK8 and Rhone." They quickly released a CD titled "Pure Evil" that is currently sold out. They have already completed one tour with Rob Walmart, and it is their second tour that brings them here to Oxy, playing their newest record "Whatever."
It's hard to track down information on Rob Walmart, but his (presumably fake) autobiography proves amusing:
"In 1997 Rob Walmart was found wandering the streets of Düsseldorf, no parents, no paperwork. By 1998 we have a record of Social Services taking him in, labeling him succinctly "an unruly child". No one knew where he came from, he had no paperwork, no cards of any kind. It was a problem again and again with the cops, caught, as he repeatedly would be, climbing into people's houses, sneaking into their basements to play their keyboards. No one ever knew what he did, what he ate, where he slept. In 1999 he was taken and put in a Home for Refugees and for a while stayed there until they released him under his own recognizance, though with several documented intractables. One was that he refused to speak. Another was, when caught again, as he inevitably would be, climbing into the Rec Center to play their keyboards, it was never with identification, or paperwork of any kind. When he was released this continued to be a problem for him, sneaking into people's houses, climbing in their windows to play their keyboards. After a while the cops decided, "Why bother with him anymore? Let him do his thing." It's not a problem. People love it. It's beautiful. After a few days he would leave and go back to his wanderings. Since then Rob has been wandering around the streets of Portland, going in and out of windows, playing their keyboards. He has no identification, no paperwork, no memory of anything before the keyboard session began. There was nothing, and then there was the keyboard."
White Fang's indie brand of alternative rock and roll will have you up and moving in no time, while Rob Walmart's electronic R&B is like nothing you've ever heard before.
Check out White Fang at http://www.myspace.com/whtfng and Rob Walmart at http://www.myspace.com/robwalmart. And be sure not to miss their spectacular performance this Saturday, right here at Oxy!
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