Rockin' Out in Japan

Revelers United - Alcohol Story

Revelers United - Baka De Ii!

I love this song, both now and when they were Ping! Pong! Dash!! They were the first band I really “met” and hung out with in Tokyo, and I’ll always keep these guys close. I haven’t been able to see them recently, but I hope our bond will always hold true.

Alcohol Story! Love You Punks!

Revelers United HP: http://ip.tosp.co.jp/i.asp?I=revelers_united

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/pingpongdash8969

Since I’ve been on a GuruGuru kick this weekend, here’s an old interview with them from YouTube.

Missed Chances...

I haven’t been keeping up with things recently. Blame it on work, no time at home, random stuff. For example, I’ve recently been loving NY’s The Casualties. Have been wanting to see them for a while now. Just this week found out that they released a new album. Bought it at Urawa Tower Records. On the album was a sticker: JAPAN TOUR 2009! Yeah, I missed it. :( WTF… Tons of tiny places too. Shinjuku Loft, Koriyama #9, etc. Well, maybe in another 3 years…

Same with Duncan’s Divas. While they might still be around and tour every year or so, me renewing this site led me to look them up. Turns out that their drummer was Maximum The Hormone’s Nao (Nawo) for a tour a year or so ago. Damn. Why didn’t I go and see them then? Blame it on work at that time. I was in Omiya from 9 am until 11:30 pm most every day during that time.

Anyway, hopefully with my somewhat new schedule, I can get to more shows and take some more pictures. My last “good” camera was “stolen” at a punk show in Koenji (though maybe I just got really drunk and ‘lost’ it there), and I just recently got a new one.

This week is a GuruGuru show in Ichikawa, so hopefully I can get to that and take some pics, if they let me. Rie! Let me, OK?! :)

Until then!

Rock on…

Duncan’s Divas with a cover of “Present” (Jitterin’ Jinn).

Duncan’s Divas HP: http://www.myspace.com/duncansdivas001

It looks like a few of the girls who used to be in the temp-band Are (アレ) have stabilized into a full-unit called GuruGuru.  Here’s their first video, 15-sai (15-years-old).  In this video, the bass was handled by Haruna (of The Babys), but with her other side-projects coming together it seems she has departed the band and a new bassist by the name of Mai has taken over.

GuruGuru HP: http://recsis.jp/guru2/

Welcome!

Welcome to rockinjapan! I’m trying to get to more shows and get everybody some (hopefully) interesting news on the Japanese indie punk/rock scene.