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[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

Shonen Knife, year uncertain but best guess is some time in the 90s

scanned from 35mm slide

📸: Unknown

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[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Shonen Knife - "Jump into the New World"

[immortalcultofjmusic]

Shonen Knife | Hot Chocolate

[videostak]

Shonen Knife - Redd Kross

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

HORNS UP -- BORN TO ROCK -- MADE IN OSAKA.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Naoko Yamano lead singer/guitarist of Shonen Knife at Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, NJ, USA, photographed on 07-20-2012. 📸: "RyanReporting" (via Flickr).

EXTRA INFO: SHONEN KNIFE are the punk-pop band from Osaka, Japan, who toured the United States of America in the summer of 2012 in support of their 18th studio album "Pop Tune," with a stop in Asbury Park, New Jersey at Asbury Lanes on Friday July 20th 2012

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/ryanisland/7777575806.

[breaking-noose]

Shonen Knife was one of Kurt Cobain's favorite bands.⁠

The Japanese pop-punk group formed in 1981, and when Kurt Cobain caught them performing live in LA in '91, he was immediately won over: ⁠

"I was crying and jumping up and down and tearing my hair out—it was amazing," Cobain told Melody Maker in 1991. "I’ve never been so thrilled in my whole life. They play pop music—pop, pop, pop music."

That same year, he invited them to open for Nirvana during a UK tour. They played with Nirvana again in 1993 during multiple shows in the US.⁠

“I didn’t know who Nirvana were before that, but they looked wild, and I was so scared, so I didn’t want to tour with them at first,” Shonen Knife frontwoman Naoko Yamano told The Guardian. “But by the end of the tour we became friends."

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[daggerzine]

Shonen Knife- Our Best Place (Good Charamel Records)

This Japanese institution, who have been at it since the early 80's, are back with another full length and they sound completely rejuvenated! They have always brought the FUN and this new batch of songs is no different and very easy to get sucked into.

Led by guitarist Naoko Yamano  (joined by her bassist sister Atsuko and drummer Risa Kawano) the band charges through 10 songs in just over 30 minutes and most of the cuts on Our Best Place are as good as anything these ladies have ever done.

First song "MUJINTO Rock" blasts out of the gate Ramones-style (the Bruddahs were always a big influence on the music of Shonen Knife) while "Nice Day" goes for a more jangly, 60''s vibe. "Vamos Taquitos" is an ebullient charged blast and "Spicy Veggie Curry" takes the guitars off of "Blitzkrieg Bop" (at least the opening chords) and goes off into Shonen Knife territory. Oh and if "Girl's Rock" doesn't get you dancing in the aisles (or your house) then nothing will. They save the Pilot cover of "Just A Smile" for last and when it's all over you'll realize that Shonen Knife has made yet another fantastic record and doing it 40 plus years on is pretty remarkable. Do not miss!

  www.goodcharamel.com

www.shonenknife.bandcamp.com 

[koholint]

today’s playlist:

Yasuko Yamano - Beagle

Chata - Inakamichi

Houkago Tea Time - Ichiban Ippai

Megumi Nakajima - Jellyfish no Kokuhaku

Miyuki Sawashiro - Trouble Angel

Yuu Asakawa - Kokoro wa Shoujo de Parachute

Aya Hisakawa - Koi wa Kazemakase

Mai Nakahara - Akubi

Yuu Serizawa - Sweet Time Cooking Magic 〜Harapeko Nan Desu Watashi tte〜

Maaya Sakamoto - Down Town

Yurika Ochiai, Naomi Wakabayashi & Mayako Nigo - My Best Friend

Naoko Matsudaira - Kotori no Kimochi

Kikuko Inoue - Yuubi na Osakana

Saya Aizawa - Garasu no Étoile

thanks for listening!

[girlynoise]

♡ Naoko Yamano (Shonen Knife)

[uncleweed]

"dive into Shonen Knife’s Burning Farm, which was released in America by #Olympia, Washington’s own K Records. Founding members Naoko and Atsuko Yamano share stories of touring with #Nirvana in 1991. + 40-year history about food, animals, and toys~"

So great to connect @ShonenKnife between *one of my hometowns* of #OlyWa from my nearby bigcity #Osaka from forever home of #Okayama + former ISP client K records / ty @kexp et al

And name check for my accidental alma mater the *infamous* "Evergreen State College" (who only takes credit for its alumni achievements long after the fact)

+ details Evergreen's "individual learning contract" – which is how i made 1996 documentary film "Hempen Road" – met with faculty member a grand total of 12 mins (he was busy writing an episode of X-Files or something). Also, name check for KAOS radio which I put online...

[bastardgoblinwolf]

Naoko Yamano was literally right. match 3 iny brain, match 3 in my mind, match 3 in the train, match 3 in my bed

[greensparty]

Album Reviews: Shonen Knife / Inhaler

This week I got to review not one but two eagerly awaited albums:

Shonen Knife Our Best Place

Since forming in 1981, Osaka, Japan’s Shonen Knife have been tearing it up in their corner of the punk sandbox. A band that can draw equal comparisons to both The Ramones and the 1960s girl groups. What a testament it is that they’ve been doing their own thing for over four decades. Since I began this blog, one of the cool things I’ve gotten to do is cover some of the band’s recent activity: their 2016 concert the day after the U.S. presidential election, my 2017 interview with the band’s singer/guitarist Noako Yamano, my review of their 2018 DVD Shonen Knife ALIVE in Osaka! (which the band actually retweeted on Twitter!), and my review of the band’s 2019 album Sweet Candy Power. The band’s first album since the pandemic Our Best Place is being released this week on Good Charamel Records.

album cover

There’s a timelessness to this new album that is kind of comforting in a way. It could’ve been released in the mid-90s after their album Rock Animals (one of my favorites of theirs) or sometime in the 00s. They have a punk edge, but serious pop tendencies, much like The Ramones and a lot like Nirvana, who sung the praises of Shonen Knife and toured with them. Bands that have fun sing-along sounds intermixed with the energy of punk and do it really really well are few and far between as you need to master both. Shonen Knife is definitely one of the masters and all hail them for still doing it into their late 50s and 60s. The band is still continuing their songs about food on tracks like “Spicy Veggie Curry” and “Afternoon Tea”, but then you have song like “Better” which is one of their finest pop moments. All hail Shonen Knife!

Atsuko Yamano, Naoko Yamano, and Risa Kawano

For info on Our Best Place: http://www.shonenknife.net/

3.5 out of 5 stars

Inhaler Cuts & Bruises

Dublin, Ireland alt-rock quartet Inhaler have been on my radar for a few years now. I named the band’s song “Falling In” my #6 Song of 2020. The band’s debut It Won’t Always Be Like This was impressive. I named it my #9 Album of 2021. Before the sophomore album was even announced they began dropping some singles and just last week I named “These are the Days” my #4 Song of 2022. Now the band’s second album Cuts & Bruises is being released this week on Polydor.

album cover

I’m going to address the elephant in the room with Inhaler right away just to get it out of the way: singer / guitarist Elijah Hewson is the son of Bono. I bring this up because that is what a lot of the attention for the band has been about. Any child of a much-loved musician has had to live up to their parent’s musicianship, just ask Julian Lennon, Jakob Dylan, or Jason Bonham, all of whom are great musicians on their own, but had to live up to their legendary parents, which set the bar so unrealistically high. But here is the secret with Inhaler: they actually are a really great band! I listened to this new album Cuts & Bruises and specifically tried to not compare this to U2 in any way, shape or form, because that’s just unfair to the entire band to say “you need to live up to U2′s discography”. 

Jenkinson, Keating, Hewson and McMahon

There is a real grandiosity to this music. It’s like they are performing songs they already know are going to play well in an arena or a stadium, but the entire band - not just Hewson but also bassist Robert Keating, drummer Ryan McMahon, and guitarist Josh Jenkinson are a tight unit. These songs are melodic and infectious. The band just keeps getting better and better with each album and song! Here’s to the first great album of 2023!

For info on Inhaler: https://www.inhaler.band/

4.5 out of 5 stars

[iamdangerace]

Shonen Knife covering the Ramones’ Beat On The Brat (2011).

[anamon-book]

TONE AUGUST 2006 No.6  ユニバーサル・コンボ 表紙＝甲本ヒロト・山野直子 甲本ヒロト VS 山野直子 25年間の真実対談

[videostak]

Naoko yamanos solos on brand new knife are so good like track to track she rly knows how to turn in a great guitar solo. Like rock animals and the original tracks on lets knife have great solos too but brand new knife is just perfection the solo on esp and wonder wine and hey magic joe are so good like in the yardbirds jeff beck era of just turning in a rly good solo that works in a pop context.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

DEFENDING INTERNATIONAL POP PUNK SINCE 1981 -- UP THE OSAKA BUBBLEGUM PUNKS!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on 1/3 of Osaka-based pop punk band SHONEN KNIFE, guitarist/ singer/ lyricist Naoko Yamano, the only member to have remained with the band for its entire history, performing live at Maritime Hall, San Francisco, CA, c. 1998. 📸: Jerry Guzman.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3421615738644341586.