Three members from two Canada based bands I like the most,AIDS Wolf and The Sick Lipstick (R.I.P.),started a new project called C.Y.M.
This news totally blew out my mind this morning.
Chloe (AIDS Wolf) plays guitar and sings/screams,Yannick (AIDS Wolf) hits his lovely partners hard and Mark (The Sick Lipstick) swings the bottom line.
A few years back,breaking-up of The Sick Lipstick made me so sad,of course I've never seen their shows.
Then one other band,Les Georges Leningrad,from Montreal,broke up suddenly,which also made me feel bad.
I think there are tons of great bands/artists in Canada,but information about them don't come overseas oftentimes and neither do bands/artists.
I really wanted to see the shows of Les Georges Leningrad and The Sick Lipstick when I was in Japan.
I should have come here earlier.
This must be true.
But now,AIDS Wolf is still making brilliant pulses of what music and art are between noise and cities.
This can be a hope for the future.
Anyways,C.Y.M. will get their children released out of the dirty crammed room very soon.
They are really different from both AIDS Wolf and The Sick Lipstick but splendid for everyone who hates MTV things.
I know that most of you guys reading this kinda beautiful shit never heard of a band called Shobu.
They probably get more people seeing their live performance by the latest EP,Bodybuilder.
Shobu mainly practice and play somewhere in Tokyo,but the sound is not really Japanese.
Some people might categorize them as Hardcore,on the other hands there must be a lot of Hardcore lovers who criticize them.
Actually,I don't know what Shobu play like.
Monika,playing bass-guitar and singing,talked to me she really liked AIDS Wolf,Night Wounds (R.I.P.),Daughters and The Locust etc. before and she is a friend of Mika Miko,they played together last June as a part of Mika Miko's Japan tour,so they might have affected her creativity.
When you google or just visit Shobu's MySpace,you would think of something you have ever seen and heard,but they are not it.
Here's a list of the artists/bands I'd like to see at SXSW 2009.
AIDS Wolf Mika Miko Dananananaykroid Akron/Family
HEALTH
Wavves
Finally Punk
Hello Seahorse!
Au Revoir Simone Aun Beep Beep The Besties EXPÉRIENCE Screaming Tea Party Electricity In Our Homes Ipso Facto Black Lips Black Math Horseman Bloodgroup Rolo Tomassi Sky Larkin Cheeseburger The Coathangers Cut Off Your Hands Gang Gang Dance The Grates Handsome Furs Holy Hail I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness It's Not Not Japanese Motors The Juan Maclean Les Breastfeeders Let's Wrestle Mahjongg Laura Marling Mother Mother My Disco Navel Passion Pit Past Lives Pocahaunted Project Jenny, Project Jan Masha Qrella The Queers Rival Schools Shout Out Out Out Out Slow Club The Soft Pack (The Muslims) Those Dancing Days
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.
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.
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.
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.
I left there after chatting with Dean and Hisham for a while.
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.
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.
