APES TAPES is an artist run cassette tape label founded in Portland, Oregon. We release cassette tapes of original and inspired local music often with free digital downloads. All of our cassettes are recorded, mixed, assembled, and sold by the very artists that we represent.
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NEW RELEASE: &&&/Woolen Men Split Ape

NEW RELEASE: &&&/Woolen Men Split Ape

Now available as a limited edition cassette and digital download, find the And And And/Woolen Men Split Ape at our Goodsie store! And And And has released a brand new album called Life Ruiner on cassette tape through Apes Tapes. Life Ruiner is on one side of the tape. Songs by the spectacular Woolen Men...
KPSU Pledge Drive w/ Leviticus Appleton!

KPSU Pledge Drive w/ Leviticus Appleton!

Come support our friends over at KPSU for the 2011 pledge drive! This station supports so much of Portland’s local music scene, so get your ass in gear and support them right back. Apes Tapes’ Leviticus Appleton will be performing with U.S.F. and Aqua Fiestas.
Follow Radiation City's Tour on Tumblr

Follow Radiation City’s Tour on Tumblr

The Apes Tapes Tumblr feed is buzzing with photos from Rad City’s current tour. Head on over to see daily shennaniganis updates from our darling artist!
Radiation City on Listologies!

Radiation City on Listologies!

Some bands hit you like a wave. Some bands start slow, manage to sneak into your mindear and grow and fester into awesome. Somehow, Radiation City does both. I am not even going to explain that. Just listen, love like a festering wave. http://listologies.blogspot.com/2011/04/song-of-day-color-of-industry-by.html
Celebrate 4/20 with Onuinu!

Celebrate 4/20 with Onuinu!

Box Set Coming Soon!

Box Set Coming Soon!

Sound on the Sound on Radiation City

Sound on the Sound on Radiation City

  What a nice review of Radiation City’s recent Seattle show at Sound on the Sound. This month we had the pleasure of bringing up Radiation City to Seattle for the first time and I’d by lying if after their set I didn’t seriously think to myself “Next PDX Obsession.” I also asked myself “Most...
Radiation City: West Coast Tour 2011

Radiation City: West Coast Tour 2011

Cooking up yet another darling sound to tear you away from your TV dinner, Radiation City delivers the calmed echoes of amplifier tubes and secret gramophones, the soothing, sonic smile of a warbling Wurlitzer, while precisely sparse heart-throbbing drums bounce from the analogue souls of our “Next Portland Obsession.” (Sound On The Sound) Listen for...
NEW RELEASE: Adventures! With Might

NEW RELEASE: Adventures! With Might

From the opening moments of “Val Kilmore,” the first song on Adventures! With Might’s self-titled debut full-length, I expect to hear Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan coming in with a well-timed “reach out and touch faith!” But the band takes things in a different direction, one with roots decidedly more ’90s than ’80s—“Val Kilmore” winds up...