When Birthday Suits took the stage in First Avenue's 7th Street Entry, I wondered, "Wow, what the fuck are they so mad at?" I quickly realized their foes were bordem, complacency. Just see the clairvoyant "Twin City Bridge is Falling Down" -- which was written pre-35W collapse!!!
Cherry Blue, the 16-minute-33-second-long scorcher of an album, unveils a barrage of staccato, nose-thumbing, kick-a-hole-in-the-sky spaz punk.
Two-fifths of defunct raucous ethnic punk outfit Sweet Jap reference influences from Minor Threat to The Mothers of Invention to Weird Al Yankovich and have found a new amalgam of music I find best coined as “tardcore.”
Guitarist Hideo Takashi and Drummer Matthew Kazama share vocals – at times in doo-wop fashion – in a lispy Asian accent so real and expressive that it may at first seem intentional and laughable. Not that they give the tiniest #&*$ what you think.
They keep it real as Hennepin and
10000 Beats filmed the entire show. Lots of footage coming soon...
