Butterfly rock

Tsugumi of the Japanese electro duo Pine*am will be as a member of new band Butterfly Monkey.  Check them out at Don Pedro’s in Brooklyn on Thursday July 2nd.  They are set to perform around 9pm.

Venue Info:

Don Pedro  (90 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY)
http://www.myspace.com/donpedrobarlounge

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New is good

After her awesome collab. with Towa Tei on his Big Fun album, Miho Hatori is set to debut her ‘New Optimism’ at the Northside Festival.  Stop by The Glasslands Gallery in Williamsburg on Thursday July 11th to check out Miho’s new music plus other great stuff from Exit Clov, Autodrone and Class Actress.

new-optimism

Love Triple

Local pop band Love Etc. is celebrating their 3 year anniversary at Drom this Friday.  It will also be lead singer, Yasuyo’s, last performance in NYC till summer.  On the bill: Love Etc., Exit Clov, Honeychild and LPF, with music by DJ’s Hayden Honey and Tony Grund.

Details:

Date - Friday April 24th

Venue - Drom : Avenue A, b/w 5th & 6th St.

Doors: 6pm  Show: 7pm

$10.00  All Ages

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Prodigy from the East

When I was 9, I think my life consisted of toys, cartoons, liquids high in fructose and devising ways to avoid schoolwork.  Playing an axe and performing Crazy Train live wasn’t exactly a priority.   However, things are a bit different for 9 year old Yuto Miyazawa.  At a very young age, he managed to master an instrument that still exceeds him in size.  While he still lives a pretty normal life, he finds time to pencil in performances on variety shows on Japanese TV, and one-off concerts in the US with artists such as Les Paul.  Yuko is heading overseas again for a small number of concerts across the US.   New Yorkers can catch this youngen with his custom Randy Rhodes-style, checkered flying V guitar at Le Poisson Rouge in May 4th.  Click here for advance tickets and details.  Click the jump for a video of Yuto in action.

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Every little bit counts: Benefit for Yuko Sueta

yuko_sueta_benefitWe’ve previously mentioned the dire situation local artist Yuko Sueta is facing.  Tomorrow (Thursday April 9th) Apollo Heights, Kayo Dot and Nymph will perform at a benefit concert for Yuko.  The concert takes place at Coco66 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (66 Greenpoint Avenue [below Franklin] ) from 9PM.

For those who can’t attend, you can still make a donation via this site: http://www.yuko.2020project.com

Those who attend there will be a small raffle of items that include:
Apollo Heights WHITE MUSIC FOR BLACK PEOPLE CD
Apollo Heights Winter 2008 Tour T-shirt
Honeychild Coleman HALO INSIDE (Come La Luna)
CD
Vinyl from the DJ Sugarfree Milkcrate


For at taste of Yuko’s work, check out this Apollo Heights video, where she supplied the visuals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyvbDuOBboo

Acid Underground

Seems like a yearly ritural, Acid Mothers comes over to our town and show us how to freak out.  The Japanese psych. rock / freak out band is back again. Hit the jump for tour dates.




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Free show is Free

If you caught Grapevine’s short but  amazing set at this year’s Japan Nite, then swing by Public Assembly tongith (March 24th) for an their full set.  Other bands on the bill that night includes Apollo Heights, Autodrone and Cale Parks.  Best of all, the cover is FREE!

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Hsunami on aisle 2

Hsu-Nami Album Release Party

Hsu-Nami Album Release Party

The always energetic progressive rock band: Hsu-Nami is throwing an album release party for their much anticipated release “the Four Noble Truths”.  Come on down to Arlene’s Grocery on Saturday March 28th for very special hour and a half set.
Details:
Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 11:00pm
Location: Arlene’s Grocery
95 Stanton Street, New York, NY
21+ $10 admission

Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 11:00pm
Location: Arlene’s Grocery
95 Stanton Street, New York, NY
21+ $10 admission on Saturday March 28th for very special hour and a half set.

More photos More Awesome

We found some awesome photos from the Chinese New Year event, on brooklynvegan.   Click here for some great shots from the killer event featuring The Notorious MSG and Peelander-Z.

Peru Ana Ana Peru in chinatown

This is a video that Peru Ana Ana Peru did with me and Ken over late last summer. “Film is not cinema”. Hope you like.