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Peelander-Z new album and spring tour dates
Are you ready for a little Japanese action comic punk mayhem? Peelander-Z, the band that sorta looks and sounds like the ghosts of the Ramones possessing the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, is gearing...
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This Peelander-Z interview is awesome
Photo by Chase Guthrie for Performer Magazine We’ve always had so many unanswered questions about Japanese action comic punk band Peelander-Z. Like, are they really from outer space? What’s the true...
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Autopsy Report of Drowned Shrimp
If there was a Weird Band Olympics, Japan would rack up medals like some monster combination of Chinese swimmers, Norwegian skiers and U.S. men’s basketball players. Every time we think we’ve found...
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Yes, Peelander-Z are touring. Again.
To which we say: Fuck, yes. Last time we posted some Peelander-Z tour dates, Jake promised not to miss them if they passed through our beloved City of Angels again. Well, Jake’s gonna have to make...
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Weird Live Review: Peelander-Z
Peelander-Z and a lucky fan Sometimes, we here at TWBITW gots to pay the bills. So my full review of Peelander-Z’s pre-Halloween extravaganza at L.A.’s Bootleg Bar can only be read on LA Weekly’s West...
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Shibusashirazu Orchestra
Wikipedia describes this week’s weird band as a “free jazz orchestra,” which is a little like saying that Fight Club was a movie about making soap. Meet the Shibusashirazu Orchestra, and let’s all...
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Wait, Peelander-Z is now a metal band?
Geez, we take one lousy little month off, and the weird band world goes apeshit. Apparently our favorite Japanese action comic punk band Peelander-Z is now a Japanese action comic metal band. What...
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Peelander-Z’s spring tour is going to melt your fucking face off
Photo by Brian D. Byers With their whole Mighty Morphin Power Ramones shtick, I didn’t think Peelander-Z could get any more awesome. Then last year, they transformed from a punk band and into a metal...
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Melt Banana
For our 250th Weird Band of the Week, we decided to go the crowd-pleasing route. Over the years, a metric fuck-ton of you* have said we should add Japanese noise rockers Melt Banana to the Weird List....
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Weird of the Day: Polysics, “Mega Over Drive”
Reader Aaron calls Polysics the “bastard Japanese offspring of DEVO.” Polysics themselves call their music “technicolor pogo punk.” We just call is awesome. Next party I go to, I plan to dance by...
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