Reality Week Edition
It’s been crazy here at “the Happy Hour.” For starters we missed Melt Banana, so that sucks. Hanabi saw Toe though, so that’s making it better. We do have some rocking sets though and our long time favorite and electronics pioneer Ken Ishii brings you the business. He’s also from Sapporo Japan, so I bet he gets a lot of beer for free. I think it’s a law or something? Louder is a punk band, that I would assume aspires to be louder than anyone. Hmmm, Zeni Geva or Merzbow may have something to say about that. But enjoy! Ryo Fujimoto would like it if you thought of him as “Rahzel-like” please.
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Ken Ishii
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