Archive for July, 2009
department H @ Tokyo Kinema Club
This event took place on July 4th.
While you foolish Americans were eating tubs of fireworks deep-fried in mayonaise, I was seeing naked jellyfish-women fighting crab-monsters at DEPARTMENT H – (a monthly fetish party for middle-aged Tokyoites. It’s kind of a exhibitionists-vs.-voyeurs battle where everyone wins. . . . if you’d like to go, the website [...]
axeweild, el nudo, turtle island, cheerio, no think @ 20000v
july 4th, 2008
(where possible, the band-names are a link to their respective sites)
turtle island
turtle island were fucking nuts. I can’t believe i had never heard of them.
They had ten people! Western drums, japanese (tyko) drums, a gong -player (!!), some other percussions, a stand-up base and a fuckin’ flautist.
Oh and crazy heavy guitars. The sound [...]
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2 commentsD.I.E., Dot (.), 死人花、FUNERAL MOTH, SITHTHER
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SITHTHER
Sithther (an unfortunate combination of ‘The Sith’ and ’sister’) play a fairly original style of rock music. Maybe it’s more useful to say they have around 4 styles: heavy, slow, mathy, odd-metered prog, psychedelic (everyone has like 30 pedals), and yelly heavy metal that sounds like neurosis but terrible, and [...]
7 commentsmagma at May 20th, 2009 @ shibuya on-air west.
Behold the power of Magma:
Old guy with bib overalls singing opera in a made-up language, on a street corner = homeless.
Same guy with a virtuoso band, in a Japanese theater: $48,000 a night.
Magma is one of those bands.
For fourty damn earth-years, they’ve been playing the weirdest prog-rock/jazz/opera ever. Plus their whole 20-album career has been [...]
Cemetary Crows
Yanaka Cemetary, near Nishi-Nippori: it’s not only a home to dead Shoguns and spooky cats. (and more spooky cats!)
They also got HELLA MORBID CROWS ALL GETTING EDGAR ALLAN POE ON YOUR ASS!
These are old photos – taken April, 2004 – which I’m (ahem) exhuming for this occasion.
all like if you mixed Waldo and Edgar Allen [...]
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