Let's happy song!

Yesterday Bad News Records' Ishoni Utaou! NHK Minna-no Uta was released. Minna-no Uta is a long-running interstitial animated music segment on NHK. There are two CDs in this release: the "children's version," featuring the original songs, as well as an "adult version" …

On Apes and Tributations

An odd song appeared on thesixtyone today...

Could it be that some sly sultroniquettes have seen fit to put some of our combat poetry to music? We are flattered and amused.

The original post can be seen on user todash's profile (second page of comments).

J-Rock

The sound quality is pretty awful, but this video is rather amazing.

Slightly more on topic, thesixtyone member puntspeedchunk has seen fit to create a fan podcast for the website, and seeing as that he happens to live in Tokyo and we happen to play in Tokyo every …

On Gringo and managers and journeys to distant lands

Here are some songs by our friends Gringo, with whom we will be playing in Shibuya this Sunday:

Gringo - Boku Wa Sou Na Yo Ni

Gringo - Pecha Pai

They are awesome.

The other bands who will be appearing don't appear to be half bad either:

Mamimi Folksong

BB Mojaco

Merry Christmas!

Affirmation

I just happened to notice that Girl, Girl, Girl, which I posted this morning, had hit the front page of thesixtyone for the briefest of moments.

It's already slipped back down again, though, so we are no longer famous. It's all downhill from here, a never-ending …

Moglax TV and other tidbits

Our compatriots, the dynamic duo MoglaPRO have put up some live videos on YouTube. (There are also clips from the incomparable valva, so be sure to check those out as well.)

The gallery has recently been augmented with crateloads of fresh, juicy photographs courtesy …

Social Networking Fudge

I decided to hack up our MySpace profile a bit more, partly because they went and changed some of their code and broke a few things on the previous layout. Check it out.

Also, Hidari is now on Facebook! Go add us, you crazy kids!

I also created profiles for Virb and

Fan (?) Video

Somebody found and posted this over at the Japanese BBS:

Paiyama

I've added a little box on the front page indicating when we will next play on the street downtown. This may prove to be an extremely poor idea, as we often don't settle on a time or date until a day or two before (or in many cases, a few hours before). We'll see how …

8/27 - Umi-no Ie

At 2:30PM on Monday, August 27th, we will be hosting a special event at Suma's Umi-no Ie. The relentless heat of the sun will probably boil your cytoplasm, but eight (or more) local Kansai bands will be on hand to apply rock directly to your face, including Watusi …

Umi-no Ie Gallery Up!

Epson sent us a pile of pictures from yesterday's event, so I've added a new gallery for them.

And the shirts have arrived! Go buy some!

Bad days

This is what I feel like on stage sometimes.

We attended Joshibu's Tonari-no Bandoman v2 last night. We played at the first edition way back in the day. Watusi Zombie, Valva, BLONDnewHALF, Receivers Pon-Pon Head and others caused many pairs of underwear to be …

Yuricorn - #026

Continuing the recent spate of videos, our friends Yuricorn have made a new music video that is up on YouTube. Good stuff:

Also, bonus 026 remix.

Shibuya Heart Attack

Those in Tokyo might be interested in this. On November 24th and 25th, Bad News Records is putting on their yearly Shibuya Heart Attack show/festival/shit-ton of bands playing on the same day in the same general area/event thing. For

Umi-no Soba

In a continuation of our Concerts Near Various Large Bodies of Water - Well, Mostly Just the Pacific Ocean series, this Saturday at noon, Hidari and friends will be playing at Kobe's Meriken Park for the Kobe Biennale '07 festival.

The following bands will be …

Flung into the gaping maw of J-Pop

We've played some strange shows in our day and been booked with bands that were odd choices on the promoter's part (to say the least), but this probably trumps them all:

Yes, next Friday we're going to be opening for a generic female pop group. It gets better, …

A surfeit of videos

(A surfeit is also, amusingly, the collective noun for skunks.)

My girlfriend Atsuko has posted several short clips she's taken on her digital camera under the nom de plume of fromkobetoyou on YouTube. Mostly they capture odd live situations (which inevitably occur …