Damn, super bummed I never got to catch them live
Hahaha they’re playing Chicago the day after my birthday. Almost birthday twins 
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Damn, that sucks. Saw them once at Hi-Dive and it was an incredible show.
Their latest album after that show was so good, I was dying to see that material live.
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damn getting to that Boston show is a priority now
Discovered these guys on spotify today. This album is great. Looking forward to exploring more of their catalog:
Thanks for sharing, definitely gonna catch the Philly show.
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instrumental/melodic songs. First one is more of a jazz influenced tune and the second one is some stoner/cowboy guitar shit:
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William Tyler is rad af
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Snagged tickets for Madison. Pretty excited
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Yessss! this is incredible news.
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I never knew this is how live music operated in Japan, pretty wild and definitely must be pretty hard to make a living as a musician. I hope that isn’t the reason for their hiatus because it seems they have a decent amount of fans outside of Japan:
Kikagaku Moyo did not find any great success in Japan, one reason for that being the expensive live shows, since Japanese music venues have a system of charging bands instead of paying them for live shows. According to Go Kurosawa in an interview, bands have to pay around 300$ for a 30-35 minute show.[9] Therefore, the band started busking on Tokyo streets, outside of busy train stations.[10] The group also made an attempt to set up psyche festivals around Tokyo, charging about five dollars for entry, with the aim of providing a cheap and accessible music scene. The band did however not gain any major progress either way. In an interview, Go says “[In Japan,] most people don’t like this kind of thing, they like following the rules”. Furthermore, the crowds were mostly made up of foreigners.[11] This inspired the group to go abroad: their first tour took place in Australia where they played the Levitation festival in 2014.
Also found this article that breaks down live music in Japan a bit further. Pretty interesting read.
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Awesome. Also saw the Steve Gunn CO shows announce
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Damn thank you! Hadn’t seen that yet
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@dtbar1 do you have a presale link for Kikagaku Moyo? The Ogden sent me the password in an email but all links go to the gen on sale AXS page.
Edit: nvm I’m dumb
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Got my tickets!
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Shakespeare set incoming
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lmao FUCK YEAH!!!
Some very cool smooth, flowing, mellow psych this morning. Had never heard of Skinshape before but really dig this album:
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