D E B U T O F T H E G U E S T B E D R O O M

It's really happy to hear from one of my favorites in Toronto, The Guest Bedroom, is going to put out their debut LP, 6 years have already passed since they joined the band in 2004, to the whole world. I've been so much waiting for this since the first time I met them in 2008. The Guest Bedroom was the band I saw the most when I was in Toronto. So stoked.

http://theguestbedroomband.blogspot.com/2010/09/covering-it-up.html

A B O U T _ T H I S I S ( N O T ) M A G

17/10/2010 @AT cafe

26/10/2010 @Day Trip

All photos are hosted on Flickr.com

B A N D C A M P

8 T R A C K S

This is what I compiled and sent to a girl I like last weekend.

C O M A N E C H I - J A P A N T O U R

A grunge punk duo from England called Comanechi came to Japan and beat people here.

I went to Lucrezia Hamamatsu and K.D Japon Nagoya. Both shows were awesome.

My guitar got dirty by Akiko, drummer and singer.

G U T H E R

S I S T E R S

Last Sunday I went to Tokyo with Sika Sika, actually I followed them a day later though. I met a woman who promoted Vivian Girls tour and released Japanese edition of their second album Everything Goes Wrong. We talked about some things that we concerned about. Then she took me to Warszawa Records to introduce a guy who also worked for the tour to me. Yeah, the record store is one of the best in Japan I think because there are always tons of great noise vinyl that I try to get them from overseas by myself and many unknown bands too. I bought four records there and all of them is good. I'll write about Sisters, one of four I bought.

Sisters - Self Titled

This band sounds really like Sonic Youth, Archers Of Loaf and Dinosaur Jr. Yeah you think what makes me think they are nice, don't you? One of the reasons is they are from Olympia, WA, where Gun Outfit also is from. There are some similarities between them and it must be the things I like. 90s alternative music was really impressive for me when I was in high school and it's kept been brilliant yet. Hmm I don't know what I want to write, so I will say shortly. Sisters are just good even it sounds really like Sonic Youth. That's it.

MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/olysisters

F I X E D

Hey, so sorry for my laziness and a long absence here. I'd been much busy for weeks and too tired of thinking about too much things getting me exhausted. Anyways, now I can feel kind of free because, yeah, I finished planning Vivian Girls show in Nagoya. The date and place had to be changed by some reasons, I don't want to say about it here though, and it took almost one month! I was going to throw away and break everything that got me annoyed. How many times did I do? No! I couldn't! Everything finally got fixed again. Here you go.

Vivian Girls Japan Tour

September 19, 2009
@Rooftop of Nagoya Daini Kohaku bldg.

Live : Vivian Girls from New York/New Jersey
http://www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc
Shobu from Tokyo
http://www.myspace.com/shobufuk
Sika Sika from Nagoya
http://www.myspace.com/4ka4ka
Vivid Black from Nagoya
http://www.myspace.com/vividblackistotallywhite
The New House from Tokyo
http://www.myspace.com/thenewhousetokyo

The show will start at 15:00 because we're allowed to play live between the daytime, so we have to finish everything before the sun goes down. But should be fun.

More information (Only in Japanese)

http://info-viviangirls-japantour2009-nagoya.blogspot.com/

E V E R Y T H I N G G O E S W R O N G

Everything Goes Wrong, Vivian Girls' second full length, will be out this coming September, before or after Japan tour. I can't wait to get this brilliant LP. 

01 Walking Alone at Night
02 I Have No Fun
03 Can't Get Over You
04 Desert
05 Tension
06 Survival
07 The End
08 When I'm Gone
09 Out for the Sun
10 I'm Not Asleep
11 Double Vision
12 You're My Guy
13 Before I Start to Cry

E A T S K U L L - W I L D A N D I N S I D E

Eat Skull is back with a great shit. Their latest LP Sick To Death was awesome and so was their show with Little Claw at Sneaky Dee's last September. People (or media?) call their sound Shit-Gaze, means Lo-Fi/Low Quality Shoegaze? Either way it's not really important for you when you are going to get their LPs at the record store. Don't hesitate to go straight to the cashier. 

There were so much noise on the songs of Sick To Death, which actually made me feel good though, but more pop songs on Wild And Inside, the newest one, instead of the distorted noise. It could make their songs look better, I think. What do you think?

RIYL: Times New Viking, No Age, Sic Alps, Vivian Girls, Wavves, Blank Dogs