E R A S E E R R A T A

This is a story about Erase Errata,one of my favorite bands,when I asked Kim from Death Sentence: PANDA! what they had been doing recently.

What she said was just bad although I had expected it.

Although it was unofficially announcement,they might not work any more.

Now Jenny Hoyston,singer and guitarist of Erase Errata,is living in Portland,said Kim.

The rest members of Erase Errata,Bianca and Ellie,are still living in San Francisco,so it is a bit hard for them to take enough time to make new songs and practice them.

Jenny told me that they hadn't had time to meet each other to practice their wonderful songs as the band before touring around Japan when they came there last year.

Before it,she released an incredible album as her own solo project,not Paradice Island,and it could have predict the unfortunate ending.

But their show in Kyoto last December was amazing and the audience got excited apparently.

This YouTube with a terrible sound was taken by me on that day.

The camera was a normal digital one so there was no way at all.

Pass The Crimson is one of my favorite songs Erase Errata played.

This was released as B side of 7" named The Alphabet Single Series U from Tomlab.

Jenny is one of my precious friends,and I will love Erase Errata forever.

A B O U T J A P A N T O U R O F D E A T H S E N T E N C E : P A N D A !

I think I should write about Japan tour of Death Sentence: PANDA! in English,but my English must be poor enough to do it.

Sorry for all English speakers who enthusiastically read this silly blog.

I will just say "It was amazing.They were so kind and nice.People who we met at the places where we went were full with affection."

O C T O B E R 1 2 N A G O Y A

O C T O B E R 1 3 K Y O T O

O C T O B E R 1 4 K O B E

URLs above are another blog written in Japanese.

I hope you guys have friends who can read and speak Japanese.

S I K A S I K A

I've been to Japan for two weeks and toured between Nagoya and Kobe with Death Sentence: PANDA! for four days.

After seeing them off at Kyoto station,I went back home.

They played at a karaoke studio in Nagoya as an event by Sika Sika,which was my favorite band in Nagoya.

Paul,Clarinet player of Death Sentence: PANDA!,said their sound was like Le Shok after their show.

I told it to Kazutomo,vocalist of Sika Sika,and it made him so surprised and happy because his favorite band was Le Shok.

Please check them out because they might go to the US to play with Death Sentence: PANDA!.

T H E C A R R O T S

There are two 7 inches which were delivered to my home in Japan a few weeks ago.

Two of them are by The Carrots,from Austin,Texas.

Very 60's poppy sound they play will comfort you and you can't help but dance,even if you are alone.

You can listen to The Carrots' excellent choice of the cover of Breakaway that Tracy Ullman sang.

Now they released two 7 inches,both of which were a little limited and from Elefant Records,located in Spain,and a smash hit.

I think it is a good thing for them,but I'm worried about one thing.

It is about Finally Punk,also from Austin.

If you have a good sense of guessing,you can understand what "also from Austin" means.

Yes,three of The Carrots are Finally Punk.

I love Finally Punk,so if The Carrots went to a long tour around the world,they would not work well.

According to the announce on MySpace,they will tour around UK next summer.

Of course,I won't be able to go there but I'm looking forward to it.

Who knows which will get more famous until then?

OMG.

D E A T H S E N T E N C E : P A N D A !

My favorite avant-toy-pop trio based on San Francisco, Death Sentence: PANDA! is going to hit Japan soon.

Their sound is obviously strange if you never see or listen to them.

Death Sentence: PANDA! doesn't consist of three instruments which are a guitar, a bass guitar and drums, but of course, they have a drummer who hits the drums.

The singer, Kim West, plays flute, saxophone and glockenspiel between the time she doesn't sing.

The drummer, Chris, bangs his drum kit lightly but heavily like a thunder.

There is one more guy, Paul, who plays a pitchshifted clarinet with manipulating a sampler, making the sound like a spell that is a part of a witchcraft.

Can you imagine their magical sound?

You couldn't understand what I mean unless you see or listen to Death Sentence: PANDA! at shows or on YouTube or MySpace, etc.

If you live in Japan,you should be ready to go to their Japan tour.

This must be great.

D E T A I L

This YouTube was recorded at SXSW in March this year, but I didn't see this show because I was in another place to see a brilliant pretty punk quartet, Finally Punk at that time.

The place Death Sentence: PANDA! played was so miserable and poor, but I liked it.

I will be there next March.

J A P A N E S E V E R S I O N

V I V I A N G I R L S

An extreme limited debut album of Vivian Girls is finally reissued by In The Red.

I really regretted that I didn't see their show at SXSW in March.

It must have been nice.

I don't know why I didn't go to theirs.

Anyway,this reissue can be one of the happiest things in this year 2008.

Actually I don't listen to many bands after I came to Toronto,but Vivian Girls is one of the most important bands recently.

I guess that you wonder why I recommend them such enthusiastically,but,even I don't know why.

Their kind of shoegazing sound basically doesn't fit me,which is proven by my preference that I don't like most of the bands had played and are playing now.

What is their attraction to me?

Their appearance?

No.

Their personalities?

Yes,but it is not enough to get a perfect approval.

It is just because Vivian Girls play that kind of sound in this moment.

Their style is so similar to No Age and Liars,both of which are also playing a kind of shoegazing.

So I'd really love Vivian Girls to go touring with them.

It'll be delightful and filled with expectations for the next level.

RIYL:The Vaselines,Talulah Gosh,Jesus And Marychain,No Age,Liars

J A P A N E S E V E R S I O N

M O T H E R M O T H E R

Vancouver's alternative country five-piece Mother Mother finally released their hopeful second album a few weeks ago.

The sound got moderately changed and it became a fantastic result.

Their charms of country style goes back a little,and from 90s to 00s alternative sound,one of my favorite styles because I used to be in the center of the new storm after grunge,could get forward somewhat.

Means there's nothing left to deny their newest one called O My ♡.

Mother Mother is going to kick off their great tour in two or three days.

After playing around some cities in Ontario and Quebec,they come to Toronto,but I won't be here.

To be honest,the fact that Mother Mother exist and make good songs in Canada is one of the reasons I decided to come here.

This is a tragedy.

Anyway,you can enjoy Mother Mother's delightful performance unless you have a wry view.

J A P A N E S E V E R S I O N

Mother Mother - O My Heart