Funny Band Names 4

Here are some more silly band names I've come across recently.

absolute mental retardation
Breast Stroke
COWPER&The NOBRASSIERES
Crazy Chameleon
CROCODILE COX
Debug My Video Game Error
Ending Story of Da~ni_da
Fluffy NeRDs
folk shock fuckers
Footless my sponge
Gate of Mom
GLIM SPANKY
Good Morning Mom
gus pipe in the house
He does not forget Kim forever.
Hollywood Massage Vibration
I HAVE A HURT
i need me
jam on the boobs
JUNK FOOD PANIC
LOCAL BLUE SHEEPS
MADE IN JESUS
MASS-HOLE aka BLACK ASS
MEDIC VOMITING PUS
Mrs.WiENER
My Eggplant Died Yesterday
My Hair is Bad
Paralyze at Teacher’s House
postman in the post
Sensible Cats
Sex Bagg'eye'Brow
sheep the afternote
Smells Like Soy Sauce
So Sorry,Hobo
Sounds Like Shit
Sugar corpse
The Beef Filter Organs
THE STRANGE RASCAL
THEIR/THEY’RE/THERE
Violent Cucumber
Wasabi Knuckles
wow!!pants cool
yucky rabbit
21%のliqueur

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Fuji Rock Festival 2011 - recommended Japanese acts

There are lots of good Japanese artists to see at this year's Fuji Rock Festival, so fill the spaces on your schedule with some of these recommendations:

Friday


uhnellys
Amazing funky post-punk hip-hop duo who make great use of loop pedals.


sunny day service
Sokabe Keiichi's reformed 90s indie-pop band.

soul flower union
Hippies blending traditional Asian music styles with psych rock and jazz.


SAKEROCK
This fun pop-jazz-ska group will be on the huge White Stage this year.

8otto
Indie rock/pop band with hints of post-punk.

LITTLE TEMPO
Classic music festival band - instrumental dub reggae.


NATSUMEN
Instrumental hardcore with prog and jazz displays of musicianship.

AWAYOKUBA
Actually pretty funky, for a funk band.

The Kingstompers
They play some decent ska mixed with calypso and latin grooves.

Little Creatures
A pop/rock band with some interesting ideas.


Asakusa Jinta
A rockabilly marching band incorporating 1930s Japanese styles.

KOYAS
A nice ambient way to start the day if you can get up to the Daydreaming stage by 10:00. Actually it will be a good place to chill out any time early in the day with DJ YOGURT and DORIAN also playing.

OLDE WORLDE
The Mokudotei stage will be a really fitting place in the forest to catch their sweet indie folk.


Saturday


Arakajime kimerareta koibitotachie
Definitely try to check out this dub jam band.

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden
Where else but Orange Court to see this post-rock prog free-jazz supergroup?

Hideki Kaji & Riddim Saunter
Indie-pop legend Hideki Kaji backed by pop group Riddim Saunter.

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Another festival standard. Everyone will be dancing.


cero
Smiley tropical indie-pop.

clammbon
Interesting soulful pop.

Shonen Knife
I think this all-girl pop-punk band needs no introduction.

KIMONOS
Leo Imai and Shutoku Mukai's (Zazen Boys) electronic post-punk duo.


80kidz
This electro dance group will pull a huge crowd again for Red Marquee.

sunaga tatsuo (Sunaga t experience)
DJ playing jazzy and latin inspired electro lounge.

matashita89
All-girl dark indie-rock quartet.

ZeZeZaZa
Some psychedelic post-rock at 3:am?

Eccy
Try to make it up to the Daydreaming stage for this hip-hop DJ, and stick around for Yanenohara.

Rojo Regalo
Their cumbia-inspired afro-cuban showa rebel music will be good with some cocktails in the Café de Paris tent.

Takkyu Ishino
If you're still awake as sunset approaches, be sure to dance to this techno pioneer from Denki Groove.


Sunday


YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
The absolute highlight of the festival will be these electronic music innovators.


Shugo Tokumaru
This eccentric indie-pop kid has graduated to the White Stage this year!

TADZIO
Try to catch this hardcore pop duo on the Rookie A Go-Go stage. Anther Rookie A-Go-Go band that might be worth catching is Yahchaika.


envy
Will explode the Red Marquee with their loud post-rock screamo hardcore. There is more loudness to be experienced in the red tent with alternative rock band MO'SOME TONEBENDER.

eastern youth
Lots of punk energy in this indie-rock trio that has been playing together since the late 80s.

Your Song Is Good
And this ska pop band's songs are pretty good too.

DACHAMBO
Don your tie-dye for these festival stalwarts. If you enjoy this kind of thing, catch GOMA & THE JUNGLE RHYTHM SECTION and NABOWA on before them.


ALTZ
This eclectic Osaka DJ will keep things fun just before midnight in the Crystal Palace tent. He also plays in the morning up at Day Dreaming.

MaNHATTAN
Drums and 2 synth dub jam band will play at the tiny Naeba Shokudo stage. Catch the super-eclectic EKD on before them.

TOWA TEI
At midnight, start dancing the night away with this groovy electro DJ.

Now, I wish I was going this year!

Related posts:
Fuji Rock Festival Tips 2010
Fuji Rock Festival Tips 2009
Fuji Rock Festival 2010 Day One review
Fuji Rock Festival 2010 Day Two review
Fuji Rock Festival 2010 Day Three review
Fuji Rock 2009 Review
Fuji Rock 2008 Review

Funny Band Names 2

by craig

Last year I posted a list of some of the amusing band names I'd come across while scouring the livehouse schedules. Here are a bunch more I've found since then:

ANTI-MANNER KICK COURSE
BAD FROG COMPANY
big fat duck
boots on avalanche
the calendar of unlucky days
THE CAT LOVES STRAWBERRIES
THE CATTLEFISH FRITTER
Catalog of Personal faults
ChocoChopBear
clumsy psycho arts
concentrate on popping
CUNTANUS
Cynical“Ping-Pong”Fotography
DASH ONESELF AGAiNST MONSTER
Dear.Goriller
DEATHABALONE
despair inside buffalo
donkey vegetable voxxx!!!
Dood Omnivorous Players
Emily likes tennis
ENERGISH GOLF
FECES KID
hot-hotter-hottest
husband is funny isn’t it
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mississippi Duck Festival
MontecarloScrapFlamingo
Morbid Sloth
mother fall asleep
Nice band.
Nine Innocent Material
Nonsense Family Revolution
One's second son
THE PARANOID BEE
POPCORN MONSTER
Prairie Prayer
the pretty good lookings
RED SLOPE HUG BAND
THE ROOT RATS
Sanitation Facilities
Selfish apple
she might be swimmer
SHOVE-IT
SLOBBERY HOT CAKES
smash funny stone
SMELLY SOX
Squirrel Scratch
TASMANIAN BABY
useless chairkicker loves dawn.
Wellness in mouth of ditch
Zombie Blasphemy
$16 CHINESE MAN

What are your favourites?

Some of the spellings may not be the bands' original intentions, but this is how they appeared on the livehouse schedules.

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Uniqlo selling Domino Records T-Shirts

Expect to see more people walking around in band T-shirts of bands they don't know as Uniqlo T-shirt (UT) has released a range of Domino Records T-shirts.

A number of Domino artist T-shirts are represented such as Mouse On Mars, Palace, Quasi, The Kills and Clinic.

They will be sold for a limited time and you can get them at the Harajuku UT store for 1500yen.
http://store.uniqlo.com/jp/store/feature/ut/dominorecords/

Funny Band Names

by craig

Over the last few years I've been keeping a list of the band names I've come across which have amused me the most.
These have been taken straight from livehouse schedules, so sometimes the random case/spelling/punctuation are mistakes of the livehouse, but more often than not they are parts the bands' real names. Some of these are good bands by the way, though I have never heard most of them!

Almond toe schooters
Amicable NIKI reservation
ANGRY PENGUIN ROBO
APPLE PANDA KICK
ASIAN BEAUTY MUDER
asphalt frustration
ASSHOLE UNITE
AWESOME DUDE
BABY SHITTER
BAD LOOKING GIRL
Balls Of The DRAGON
Bankrobber Mamma
BARBIE ATTACK DOLL(S)
BATHTUB SHITTER
BEE! BANG! BOO!
BEEF COW KARMA
Before Christ Butterfly
BEN thinks little of sneakers
The Big Machine Bazooka Rocks
Bitch Lunch Box
BITCH ON THE BEACH
the blah,blah,blah
BLAND PEPPER SAUCE
BLOODY CUNT
THE BLUEBLACK PINHEAD ROLL
BOTH CHEESE
BRASSIERE HOOK
Bulldog In Twister
Bunny Girl Piss
BURSTED BOOB
BURST HEAD LOLLIPOP
Bus Stop Mouse
THE BUTTERFLY FROM VENUS
butterfly in the stomach
Camel Vain Ballet
Camille Of The Raspberry Juice
THE CAT FANCLUB
thee catfish Paddy field
Cathy lost one's apricot yesterday
the cement pets
the chef cooks me
CLEAVAGE
contagious orgasm
continuous connoodling
CRAMP THE LADYBUG
CUTTER ACID TACKLE
DARGI SUICIDE MAD PINK
Deadman's Chorizo
DEEP FREEZE MANIA
DELETE YOU PSYCHO
die!!die!!color!!!
DIE YOU BASTARD!
The Dilemma of Hedgehog
DISEASED KIDS
DISTURD
Dizzy up the girls
DJ:Duck Soup Family Club
DJ FUCK RYU
DJ Shhhhh
DREADLOCKFELLOW
Dr.Margarine and his crazy pants
DRUNK GIRLS
dumpy Macho Wife
THE Dust Fellows
Egg Murder
ELECTRIC BAZOOKA
ELECTRIC SLIMY BABIES
enamel the evening calls
Face under cork killers
FAT or DIE
F?C large selection'
fisherman's rubber boots
FRAIL HEAD SQUEEZE
The Freddie Mercury
FREEZE HUDDLE FORMATION
Fuck'n Windows united 101
FUCK THE LOTS OF YOU
The Fuddy Duddie's
Funny-RAT
GAS BILL ASIA
Generation Sex Soda
gentlemen underwear
GODHAND of 3minutes
GOD'S GUTS
golden tampon
GOODBYE ME,HAVE A NICEDAY
Good Dog Happy Men
GO ROCK SEVERAL HATES
GREEN HERB STRAIGHT TEA TIME
GREENPEAS YOUNG
grow a fool
GUILLOTINE TERROR
THE HACKED RABBIT HOUSE
HANDS CLAP GANG
HARD CORE DUDE
HARD?GAY?POLICE
Head Job
HEMP COACHING JUICER
HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE BUS 300%
hippo's pig band
Horny Busted
HOT BITCH'S MARIE
hot hip trampoline school
Impotence Trichomonad
Independent Fuck For Girl
Intelligent minni vanilli
ILL SPAGHETTI
In197666
JACK BLOODY NO SMOKER
jerk eggplant
Jisatsushitaikedoashitashigotoda
Kicking Asshole
kill the poltergeist urban security
THE KITCHEN GIRL UNDERMINE
Large House Satisfaction
Lick a man when he is down
LIFE IS JUST LIKE A CHRISTMAS
Little fats & Swingin' hotshot Party
Little sadistic doors
THE LOONY SAGE GARGOYLE
TheLovinGRAND-DAD
Macbeth the Imprish club
Male Goat
MAY FRY PARASHUTE
melancholy kindergarten
Millions of Jesus
minimal hug
mocidade vagabunda batteria nota 1000
MONGOOSE HELL LAZER
Monky T Ace from Cool Running
monogram gain the mode age
MOP OF HEAD
mush the room
music is good
My Cobra and her heads
THE MY BABY IS A HEADFUCK
my plastic JonBenet doll
The NAF in the SweLL
NAPALM DEATH IS DEAD
Natural Ambient Psychedelic Sex
NICO Touches the Walls
NISEUO cosmic-chang mothership progress
NO FORE PLAY
no-side-whiskers
NO SPEAK ENGLISH
oh my God,you've gone
ONION HEAD CUBE
OPPAI?KIDS
the Oriental bus stop
the oriental mosh pit
PIECE OF BREAD
PINK PARTY POODLES
Poor Midnight Grandma
the powerful banana
PSYCHO FOOD EATERS
Pudding paranoia
pygmy with bitter ends
Quinka, with a Yawn
RED BACTERIA VACUUM
Rice Riot
ruin close reptile
Salmon mousse papa
S AND THE NICOLE KIDMEN(ex.PANICSMILE)
Sanitation Facilities
SATAN'S WC
Sausage Butterfly Pasta Festa
school food punishment
SCORNFUL RAT
screw that comming off
SEX INSTRUCTORS
SEX～VirginKiller～
SHEEEEPS
she might be swimmer
Shit
Shit in the park
Sibelian Hair Madness
SILLY BILLY
SLAPPIN' JAPS
slob
Solid Afro
SORRY FOR A FROG
speedy dark and frozen bitch
SPICY SOCKS
stamp one's feet
still…you turn me on
STUPID BABIES GO MAD
Subway School DISK position
SUPER BAD DUDE
SUPER BEER
SUPER GET GET TWO
Taichi ueno & THE FAMILY VEGETABLE
TANGY BURP
TASMANIAN BABY
TEDDYBEAR UNDEAD
Teenagers Bloody KillinG
that's a no no!
Thousands Birdies'Legs
three weeks old lovesick puppy
TRASH MUFF
THE UNCLE OF GREEN CAR
Uncute
UNSNAPED BRANCH
untitled smells things
up wife
VIBRATE TWO FINGERS
wash?
WET THE BED
WHITE LOSER
WHO SHIT
Who the Bitch
Willing to be CURE
THE WORLD APARTMENT HORROR
Yakisoba Eater With No Chopsticks
YOGURT-pooh
Yum!Yum!ORANGE
1000s of cats
6x9=54
767 not threeseven
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Which are your favourites?

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hazel nuts chocolate, harco, golf at que

by craig

On Friday night I went down to Club Que in Shimokitazawa to see Hazel Nuts Chocolate, Harco and Golf.

Hazel Nuts Chocolate put on a bit of a different show than usual. The singer, Yuppa, was looking a lot more serious than usual and the band seemed to have decided they were a rock band. Still incredibly cute of course, but it seems as if cuteness is becoming less of a part of their style. Their last album, 'Cute', apart from having the most fitting title of all time, had some great silly ditties and crazy Plus-Tech Squeeze Box-like moments. One of my favourite things is how Yuppa tries to fit too many words in a line in her sped-up child-like voice. Anyway, on Friday night it seemed to be all about the guitars and funny rock poses. Definitely the band of the evening. I was grinning like an over-supportive mother throughout the whole performance.



All the young girls who were up the front worshipping Yuppa during Hazel Nuts Chocolate moved back to let the older ladies move up to grin at handsome Harco. I have one of his CDs around somewhere that I bought years ago and liked during my late-90s preppy Japanese pop phase. I've also been listing his shows on Tokyo Gig Guide since it started but had never actually seen him play live. On Friday night he sounded like Hideki Kaji if Hideki Kaji were a kinda boring keyboard-playing singer. Funnily, the best song was one that Harco co-wrote with Kaji. I know Harco is an important Tokyo indie-pop scene veteran but I wasn't really in the mood on Friday night. Not cute enough.

I had been really looking forward to seeing Golf. I really liked their mini-album 'The Gift.' Interesting, quiet, experimental pop. I wanted to see how they would be live, however since they recorded 'The Gift' it seems like they've become more.. just pop. Live, and with their latest mini-album, 'Yellow', the singer has become more confident and his great voice is what leads the band and what could actually make them popular commercially. Seriously, his voice is quite beautiful. But for me, the best thing about them are the sublime moments with trumpets and melodica, or when they incorporate electronic sounds and beats. The rest of the time it's fairly standard guitar pop/rock. They were a tight live band and a friendly-looking bunch of guys and girls. They seemed to be good friends plus a bit nervous so were always looking at each other and smiling and giggling. cute!

myspace

by craig

although myspace has a lot of obvious faults, it has become a good way to find new music.
so if you want to see some profiles and hear some samples of japanese bands, have a look at the friends of the tokyo gig guide myspace.