It’s time once again for the Top 3 Indies Artist Video Countdown for Aug. 25, 2018!
Starting us off today is a new trio from Los Angeles called “The Living Roomers.” The Living Roomers were turned onto us by Kona Cindy! Thanks Cindy! I don’t know much about this band excepting they’re sick of this shit and that lead-singer young lady (who looks like Suzi Quattro) looks like she has a bad attitude! Bwa! Ha! Ha! I love it!
Need more info about this hot new band? https://www.facebook.com/thelivingroomersband/
#3) The Living Roomers – iPhoney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulehIT6AKWM
At #2 is a rock band from Paris France that is a hit in Japan! Sugar & Tiger! Been playing them on the FM radio in Japan and they were #1 on our charts last week (was it?) The reaction for the fans has been great!
Here’s their Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sugarandtiger/
#2) Sugar & Tiger – “Bonjour” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0sk7k42bE
From Paris, France to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. And now for something completely different... It’s Pato Fu. I think this a a band that makes kid’s shows, but I’m not sure because I don’t speak Portugese. Their bio states: “Twenty-two years passed. We’re still the same band. We’re not the same band anymore.” Thanks to Fernando Marquez for the video link!
Here’s their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/patofuoficial/
#1) PATO FU – Private Idaho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grQuf-Jfv7c
SPOTLIGHT ARTIST! Departing from our usual spotlight on a band from Japan is this week’s band now touring Japan! It’s the B-Girls! First wave Toronto punk rock. “The ‘B’ Girls are a Canadian all-girl rock’n roll band that formed in 1976 and recorded on Bomp Records. They moved to NYC in 1977 and toured w the Clash.” The B-Girls are here in Japan right now!!!
The B-Girls Japan tour 2018 (https://www.gogovamp.com/chicksriot/4141.php)
9/1(sat) @大阪 難波Mele
9/2(sun) @静岡 浜松Kirchherr
9/7(fri) @東京 下北沢Three
9/8(sat) @東京 高円寺HIGH
Today, I’d like to play my fave B-Girls track of all time, “Alibi.”
Go Like their Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealbgirls/
SPOTLIGHT ARTIST! B-Girls – I’ll Be Your Alibi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ-9OOFvLBY
Of course, if you want to hear more of the B-Girls and this other stuff, check out InterFM’s, “The Mike Rogers Show” (Every Sunday morning from 5 am ~ 7 am on InterFM 897 in Tokyo, Radio Neo 79.5 in Nagoya, and nationwide simulcast on Radiko.jp! Check it out for tons of cool new music every week!)
Well, that’s it for today. Have a great weekend!
“Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock and Roll Ghost Story,” enjoyed its World-Premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London on Sept. 25, 2017, and was released by a major Japanese motion picture company and in theaters all across Japan will celebrate the release of the DVD and Blu-Ray on sale all across Japan on June 13, 2018! Canada theatrical release will be August 31, 2018! Canada theatrical release information:
https://omniwebticketing4.com/imaginecinemas/carlton-cinema/?schdate=2018-08-31)
Here’s the movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxwJ4AfzOwM
Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock n Roll Ghost Story
DVD and Blu-Ray on sale all across Japan on June 13, 2018!
Well, that’s it for today. Have a great weekend!
About Mike in Tokyo Rogers: Mike has been a professional music/TV/radio/anime-related program producer in Japan since the eighties. He began in the music business in 1977 as lead vocalist with the legendary Los Angeles Punk Band, “The Rotters” (Sit on My Face Stevie Nix.). As a university student, he was assistant to the legendary Rodney Bingenheimer (Rodney on the ROQ – KROQ Los Angeles from 1980 ~ 1981.) Mike was the first and only foreigner in Japanese history to become the General Manager of a major Japanese broadcasting station (TV Tokyo owned InterFM). Has produced a few smash hit programs (some real losers, too!) and several of Tokyo’s highest rated and most famous radio programs. A recent hit Internet TV program was “The TV Show” (Set Program with “Ninja Slayer”) which, between April – Oct. 2015, garnered over 10 million viewers. He is currently producing and hosting “The Mike Rogers Show” every Sunday live on InterFM 89.7 in Tokyo and Radio Neo in Nagoya 79.5 and nationally broadcast on Radiko.jp (Internet radio). And he is the creator and founder of the Mt. Fuji – Atami Film & VR Festival. Also his life’s dream is his just completed full-length motion picture, “Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock and Roll Ghost Story,” which enjoyed its World-Premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London on Sept. 25, 2017, and was released by a major Japanese motion picture company and in theaters all across Japan from Sept. 2017 ~ Mar. 2018. The DVD and Blu-Ray went on sale all across Japan on June 13, 2018!
Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock and Roll Ghost Story Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxwJ4AfzOwM&t
… Oh, and he likes to write about himself in the third person!
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