November 29, 2008

M U T A T I N G M E L T D O W N


Veronica,from
Finally Punk and The Carrots,might be now one of the enthusiastically hardworking players in the world of the indie music scene.
Mutating Meltdown consists of her and Erin,also from Finally Punk,and Chad,from Zom Zoms,and sounds bit of goth-chic cheap post punk,reminding me of Numbers and Erase Errata and Meho Plaza,all of which are from California,though.
Their debut 7" will be out in January, 2009 from M'lady's Records,releasing Finally Punk already and waiting to come Jenny Hoyston's out of the space.

November 24, 2008

N O A G E

They hit Toronto twice or more.
Shoegazing,not really,experimental pop duo,No Age,came here again.
It's passed only four months since last time they played at Horseshoe.
It was a terribly humid night and more inside the tiny room for them to play in the historical bar.
There was a crowd of more than 400 people,I guessed,and half of them might have been young kids,under 19.
One young kid talked to me when I was in line to wait for the room opening.
He was like,"Your tee is nice.I like HEALTH,too."
Hey,if I had been in Japan,could I have heard the words like his saying?
Absolutely,NO.
I hope young kids in Japan will change their own style and attitude to everything about music and art and etc.
Anyways,at this time,however,there was no teenager in Lee's Palace.
Why not?
Do you know why No Age called themselves No Age?
Sucks.
I will never go to the place they played on November 21 unless something special to me is planned.

Before No Age played,Silk Flowers,from New York City,and Soft Circle,from Brooklyn,as solo project by Hisham,who used to be in Pixeltan and Black Dice,played as openers of the show.
Silk Flowers' psychedelically freak out synth sound took me to the heaven.


Silk Flowers

No sooner had I returned to the ground safely than Soft Circle took me higher than the heaven by the layers of the hyper experimental dance music.
I've never seen any shows of Black Dice and Pixeltan and it would be impossible forever,so I was really happy to see him playing.




 

Staying at the higher place,I saw No Age playing on the stage.
I took many pictures and movies,some of which had already put up to Flickr and YouTube,and danced during the very last three or four songs.
They played some new songs and they were so nice.
If you go to their show,please listen to and see carefully.


 

After the show,we moved to another place where a guy organized an event as a secret show for No Age to have a chance to play in front of young kids.
It was located on Bathurst street between King street and Richmond street and like a deserted warehouse,actually it reminded me of Death By Audio,Brooklyn,where PWRFL POWER,one of my Japanese friends,played in the end of June.
There was full of people who got drunk and were young except some hicks in the colorless building.
We managed to put some equipments inside,waiting for a band from Toronto started.
They sounded just like Hardcore.
It was fun and their performance was filled with much violent energy,but there was a lack of something special.



Unknown

After the twenty-minute storm of violence,No Age was going to start playing.
In fact,they played two songs right through.
But the soundsystem there was not good or something happened at the moment,which could throw No Age into trouble.
They tried to recover their own sound,but it seemed so tough,then Dean,singer and drummer,quit singing and Randy,guitarist,played some cover songs.
It could have grabbed hearts of people there shortly.
After all,they couldn't play their own songs,but it was so exciting and they could have had fun,I don't know.


No Age

I left there after chatting with Dean and Hisham for a while.

November 8, 2008

F I N A L L Y P U N K


How was your Halloween?

After those crazy parties in the cities in the North America,Finally Punk released their great new seven inch called Hypertension from M'Lady's Records.
I've really been looking forward to it coming out since the song,Hypertension,appeared on their MySpace.
It's so short and might get you hypertension.
Actually,they have never changed their style at all,but the EP is pretty brilliant.

Now they are being ready to go touring around US and UK.
Elizabeth,one of singers in Finally Punk,told me they will be playing at SXSW too.
Yes,it's time to dance all day long!