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

K L A N G

This is one of my best albums in my life, called Klang led by Donna, ex Elastica. They released a 7" and LP/CD, then, I don't know how they've been. But, this album named No Sound Is Heard was really impressive at that time because the sound was totally different from Elastica. Hmm, I can't explain exactly what I think, so you should check out their website, still alive, below. 

http://www.klang.org.uk/

T E E N A N G E R / C H A R L I E & T H E M O O N H E A R T S

After a long voyage, the split LP of Teen Anger and Charlie & The Moonhearts came here in my room. It's too long that the time to wait for this LP coming, but it's awesome, needless to say.

Songs of both bands are great, especially Teen Anger, for me. I don't usually listen to bands that play Garage Rock, but there are lots of good ones in Toronto and you can see them everywhere you go. Teen Anger was just the one in the very first time. That was the show with Vivian Girls last August, which was not actually so impressive for me. Then I saw them playing at some shows and liked the sound they sounded. I don't know what made me so though. Before I left Toronto I tried to get their CDR or something like that but all sold out already, so I was going to give up to getting them. But, I saw Telephone Explosion, run by two members of Teen Anger, would release the split LP with Charlie & The Moonhearts. Of course, it was too late to buy one in Toronto. So I asked Jon, who is running the label and the guitarist of Teen Anger, to send the LP to Japan. And now, I have it. Thanks a lot, Jon!

F L Y E R

Looks nice? This will be changed later, but please keep your eyes on and remember what's going to happen.

Vivian Girls Japan Tour

September 18, 2009

K.D Japon, Nagoya

Vivian Girls (from Brooklyn / New Jersey)

Shobu (from Tokyo)

Vivid Black

K A R A O K E

Last night I was in Osaka to see No Age and Telepathe. It's not a good time to go there because most people wear a mask prevent themselves from swine flu, which means you might get sick by horrible flu. But I don't care, so didn't wear any masks.

This is the second Japan tour for No Age, the first was two years ago instead of Hella and Marnie Stern's cancelled shows. There were not many people but they could know who No Age was. Then No Age has become more popular around the world excluding Japan. They might have been worried whether lots of people came, but, actually there were more than the last time. It was an amazing show last night and it might be the last time for me to see them for a while. It's too bad.

Anyways, after the show Dean and Melissa and Busy, both from Telepathe, went to karaoke, of course, I followed them. We sang some songs together, Prince, Ramones, Culture Club, Nirvana, Weezer, Bay City Rollers, etc. It was really fun and I wish the time stopped forever.

Tonight No Age and Telepathe are going to play in Tokyo with Nisennenmondai, one of my favorites in Japan, should be exciting. If you have no plan tonight, you HAVE TO go there seeing them.

G R A M M E - P R E R E L E A S E

A band called Gramme, already broken up before they released their must-have-been great debut album from a label, also great, Output Recordings, was one of the bands I played most when I did dj things. They've been living in and moving my heart. The bass line is totally amazing. 

L O S C I N C O S - T H E F I V E D E A D L Y S I N S

In 1996 a band called Los Cincos released an album full of psychedelic garage songs. Actually, I didn't know them at that time though. 

I found the LP in a box where there were tons of cheap vinyl, three for ￥500 (about 5 USD) five years later. The cover was clearly designed to make you think it was a psychedelic band from the past, but it was not really. It sounded really funny for me because I was not familiar with genre like that so much and photos of the members on the back cover made me think so. Their faces on it were weird.

Now that I don't think they are funny and sound really psychedelic, just good. But the third song on the LP called A National Sensation is really cool. It sounds like The Hives plays The Who with The White Stripes, I know this is not a good comparison, Los Cincos is better than the current Stripes. 

Anyways, I reconsidered Los Cincos was not supposed to be in a "garbage" box.