Shonen Knife
More recently, since the original member and bassist Atsuko moved to Los Angeles and left the band, Naoko and Etsuko played with support bassists. On the new album “Super Group”, support bassist Ritsuko has joined the band as an official member. Now Shonen Knife has become a 3 piece band again and a super group was born.
In 2007, they released an album “fun! fun! fun!” in Japan. Since then, they’ve spent very busy playing lots of shows, performed on a kids album for “Powerpuff Girls” with a video aired on Nickelodeon, enjoyed a North American tour, recorded a cover song for an AC/DC tribute album and played at many rock festivals. In 2009 Shonen Knife signed a deal with Good Charamel Records to release “Super Group” to the fans in North America!
The concept of this album is to “go back to the starting point of ROCK”. All the lyrics are written in English. The 1st song “Super Group” is very punk pop like Buzzcocks. “Muddy Bubbles Hell” and “Pyramid Power” taste like Heavy Metal. “BBQ Party” starts with a Jonathan Richman like intro and transforms into punk rock. The harmony at the last part of “Na Na Na” is very cute. The last song is a cover of Paul McCartney and the Wings song “Jet”. Shonen Knife version is very fun and ROCK. This album makes everybody happy.
They will be touring around their new release in the states this October/November '09.
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Label: Good Charamel Records http://www.goodcharamel.comMyspace: http://www.myspace.com/shonenknife
