Our kickstarter was a complete success. This month has been unbelievable.

Tomorrow we hit the studio to begin recording our upcoming album at The Atomic Garden Recording Studio – in the East Palo Alto, CA. Thank you all for your support in helping make this happen.  I’ll be doing my best do blog via twitter @dstrynateallen and perhaps on destroynateallen.tumbler.com if time allows. We fly down to the bay area tomorrow and we’ll be back in Portland on Tuesday. This is gonna be a crazy weekend we’re shooting for 19 songs in 3 studio days. Wish us & GnarBoots luck!

Much Love!

Nate & Tessa Allen

Here are a few bands that have recorded at The Atomic Garden:

Broadway Calls, Dead To Me, Classics of Love (Jessie from Operation Ivy), Joyce Manor, Comadre, Big Kids, Heart Sounds and many more.

Check out our Kickstarter: Destroy Nate Allen’s Epic Album Adventure!

Destroy Nate Allen was recently presented with an opportunity to make our first professional studio album featuring the amazingly fun Gnarboots (Asian Man Records) as our backing band. The album will be recorded in California to 2” tape at The Atomic Garden, run by Jack Shirley who plays in Comadre. We’d like to invite you take part in this epic adventure by choosing one of the rewards to the right, essentially pre-ordering the new album.

Two of the songs from this recording session will be featured on a split 7” vinyl with Blaster The Rocket Man, who play sci-fi, mind-altering, horror punk. They are one of our favorite bands ever!

Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing platform, so for everyone to get their awesome prizes, we need to reach the $4000 goal. You are not charged for your pledge if the goal is not reached by Jan 18. Concurrently, if we do reach our goal, you are not charged until Jan 18, when the funding period ends. Without your help we will not be able to make this happen.

We are based in Portland, OR and play interactive, sing-a-long, folk punk. Since 2006, we have self-released and self-funded 6 full-length albums and played over 700 shows throughout the United States. Tessa’s tax work is seasonal and we are both full time students. The financial strain of being such active musicians is taking its toll, but we cannot pass up such a unique opportunity.

Below are a ton of details about various aspects of the project. We’ve racked our brains coming up with the coolest rewards imaginable, so spread the word and let’s have some fun!

Check out our Kickstarter: Destroy Nate Allen’s Epic Album Adventure!

Thank you in advance for your support!

Nate Allen

I met Sam from the Illusionists right around 9-11. His band high school band EPD came down from Eugene to play my high school band Milesmouthguard’s CD Release show. Somehow a borrowed bass amp caught fire and the fire department was called.

I’m super stoked for this show. All 6 bands are fantastic and we’re playing our favorite garage! This is our first all-ages show in N. Portland since May. Tell everyone let’s have a blast! – Nate

I only turn 30 once! Tell everyone! This show is gonna be epic.

This is also the first DESTROY NATE ALLEN show in Portland SINCE MAY! Come celebrate our return!!!

We’re playing somewhere on the first half of the night. I couldn’t be more stoked to play with a few of my favorite punk bands for my birthday. Below is all the info on the show!

Boats – on tour from Sacramento and play killer pop punk
Company – members of Early Times, Drunken Boat, Anchor Down
The Bloodtypes – ex-epoxies
Mormon Trannys – good guys & good band

See you at the show!

Nate Allen

@ Plan B Bar. 1305 SE 8th Ave – Portland, OR – 8 PM – 21+ – $7
Sorry it’s 21+ some all-ages events are in the works.

Read All About It:

Our friends Danielle & Michael wrote a critical / joke of an essay about Destroy Nate Allen, Insomniac Folklore and Self Proclaimed Narcissist. At first the essay stung a bit and then lightening struck!!!!

We had to release a split EP that included this amazing essay as the only liner notes. The album had to include “covers” and “originals” by all three bands. It’s hard to say who wrote which songs… it’s all become one big joke and I love it.

You see Tyler, Eric and I are all from the same small Oregon town of Roseburg. We’ve been friends for years and in more ways than one we’ve probably inspired each other to be more creative. I know I’ve stolen an idea or 2 over the years.

So with that in mind we have unleashed what is probably the most narcissistic album in history. The art is packed full of epic and awkward photos and comes complete with an amazing essay exposing the dark side of Folklore, Narcissism and Destruction.

I’m also pretty stoked because I was able to design the artwork which if I do say so myself is worth the free cost of the download.

To collect all 9 songs and read the essay you must visit:

www.destroynateallen.bandcamp.com
www.insomniacfolklore.bandcamp.com
www.selfproclaimednarcissist.bandcamp.com

So there you have it, the first scavenger hunt in the history of Destroy Nate Allen!

This is our only US tour of 2011! Tell you friends.

Addresses are on the show page. Our friend Adam made the tour poster. Check his art out here!!

Check the facebook event!

We’ll see you soon!

<3 Nate & Tessa!

May 11th – The Farm House (our place!) – a very rad folk show!
w/Medicine For The People, Kelli Schaefer, Seth Martin & The Menders.
This is night of epic sing-a-longs will feature Seth Martin’s last US show for a year and the stop in your tracks rock n’ roll of Kelli Schaefer, who just got named as one of Portland’s best new bands by the Willamette Week. Check the facebook Event

May 16th – The Bomb Shelter – crazy fun punk show!
w/Kepi Ghoulie, Danger Death Ray, and one very special guest.
- This will be a super fun, Kepi (asian man/ x-groovie ghoulies) is very, very neat to see live and the mystery guest features members of band I thought I’d never play with and of course we put out a 7″ with Danger Death Ray last year! Check the facebook event.

May 20th – The Sea Shanty! – The best of both world, a great night of folk punk!
w/Autry!, Ether Circus and Self Proclaimed Narcissist
This is our last Portland show until late August. Autry rocks wonderfully and we rarely get to enjoy the sweetness that is Ether Circus. The Sea Shanty is our favorite place to rock and we’re putting out a split with SPN later this summer. Check the facebook event!

Known for his aggressive, in-your-face performances, Allen usually performs as a duo with his wife, Tessa. But Allen will be solo when he visits Alaska next week.

Allen is more than a full-time student, taking 26 credits at two Portland, Ore., schools, trying to complete bachelor’s and associate’s degrees at the same time. This week is his spring break, and he’s using it to perform.

“I’m leaving my laptop at home,” he said on the phone, while walking to class in Portland.

Allen has toured in the Lower 48 with bands like The Builders and The Butchers, Mythological Horses and The Scurvies, based out of Alaska. It was The Scurvies that convinced Allen he should come to Alaska.

“They keep saying ‘come to Alaska,’ so I decided to take charge,” he said.

Allen started his music career as a solo act, playing soft, acoustic music. He later realized that a lot of his solo stuff was based on foundations that were rooted in bitterness and fear, even if the music didn’t actually speak to those things.

So he decided to focus on that bitterness and fear and on his “personal brokeness.” His music morphed into what it is now, and since he went by “Nate Allen” he figured he needed a new moniker.

“Destroying his band name,” he said about his new name. “It’s very flippant and spunky.”

The change in the name also represented a change in his performance style. He had been standard acoustic folk. But after he did a solo U.S. tour in 2007, he realized that in order to make enough money to get to the next city, he had to stand out.

It didn’t help that he developed pneumonia days before the tour started. His natural style was already quiet, so he had to up the ante if he wanted to continue.

“It was not intentional, but I thought ‘If I have four songs to win this audience, what can I do?’” he said. “Climb on something? Or go stand on them?”

So that’s what he did.

Always a fan of pop songs, many of his tunes are inspired by three-chord hooks. That plays into the catchy nature of his folk chants.

He said that his solo show is generally just as high energy but with songs that are more introspective. His song selection is broader, too. When he performs with his wife, they have a set list that theY tend to stick with.

But even if the show is unexpected and even a little crazy, he hopes people leave feeling good.

“It’s guaranteed to show you a good time,” he said. “What I really value is making people feel like they’ve spent their time well.”

Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Folk rocker Destroy Nate Allen finds new sound through band reimagining

 The full details will be coming soon but I’ll be playing shows in Anchorage and Fairbanks.

 If you have any friends up in Alaska please send tell them I’m coming! Also if you know of any houses/clubs/bars/blogs/zines please send them our way!

Here is the facebook event!

 I look forward to seeing everyone!

 Nate Allen