Hosome toe the line between fascinating noise and pure nonsense nonstop on Jakamashi Jazz. Toe isn’t even the right word for it – picture the band driving along the edge of a cliff, cartoon-style, balancing 20 pizza boxes on their heads after drinking a cooler’s worth of Jolt Cola. One unnecessary fidget will send them…
Perfect Piano Lesson open up their second full-length album, Wanderlust, by blasting out of the gate. After a little bit of Primus stretching, “(leaving this planet on the) Sunday Night” launches into a Chili Peppers’ (!) guitar groove that’s somehow psychy and math rockish. The band’s voices pop up soon after, leaping off one another…
The logical side of me that also took an advertising class in college understood perfectly why OGRE YOU ASSHOLE headlined over Sunset Rubdown – 95 percent of the people crammed into Osaka’s Unagidani Sunsui venue came out to see OGRE and probably never heard of Sunset Rubdown. The geek in me who also absolutely loathed…
Hideki Kaji came closest to an international breakthrough after he got mugged while dressed as a pineapple this past Spring. While filming the music video for “Passion Fruits” in Sweden, three guys attacked the fruit-costume-clad Kaji and stole $2500 worth of camera. The story worked it’s way to various “News of the Weird” features and…
If you want an extremely entry level look into life at Japan, this parody rap video done to the tune of “Nothin’ But A G Thang” will tell you all you need to know about convenience stores and blood type obsession. Of course, you have to endure parody rap (the lowest of low), so I’d…