06.28 (Sat)
SUPER JUNKY MONKEY
Mutsumi“623”(Vocal), KEIKO(Guitar/Vocal), Kawai Shinobu(Bass/Vocal), Matsudaaahhh!!!(Drums)
Super Junky Monkey are a gutsy, innovative band of four Japanese women that began playing in 1991. Singer Mutsumi “623” Takahashi, guitarist Keiko, bassist Shinobu Kawai, and drummer Matsudaaahhh!!! released the first Super Junky Monkey album, the all live indie release “Cabbage,” in 1993. The album showed their unique and furious, yet fun, brand of jazz, funk and hip-hop-spiced grunge rock, which some compared to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against The Machine. The band had serious chops as musicians, often playing intricate and sometimes odd musical parts, and had a dynamic front person in Mutsumi. The band and the album gained critical acclaim, which resulted in their second album, 1994’s “Screw Up,” being released by Sony, which did not in any way tame the band’s adventurous character or provocative lyrics, which were often in English. In 1993, Super Junky Monkey played CMJ’s Music Marathon in New York and went over quite well. In 1994, the then leading English language magazine in Japan, Tokyo Journal, named them “Band of the Year”. In 1995, the band released... More Biography
Mutsumi“623”(Vocal), KEIKO(Guitar/Vocal), Kawai Shinobu(Bass/Vocal), Matsudaaahhh!!!(Drums)
Super Junky Monkey are a gutsy, innovative band of four Japanese women that began playing in 1991. Singer Mutsumi “623” Takahashi, guitarist Keiko, bassist Shinobu Kawai, and drummer Matsudaaahhh!!! released the first Super Junky Monkey album, the all live indie release “Cabbage,” in 1993. The album showed their unique and furious, yet fun, brand of jazz, funk and hip-hop-spiced grunge rock, which some compared to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against The Machine. The band had serious chops as musicians, often playing intricate and sometimes odd musical parts, and had a dynamic front person in Mutsumi. The band and the album gained critical acclaim, which resulted in their second album, 1994’s “Screw Up,” being released by Sony, which did not in any way tame the band’s adventurous character or provocative lyrics, which were often in English. In 1993, Super Junky Monkey played CMJ’s Music Marathon in New York and went over quite well. In 1994, the then leading English language magazine in Japan, Tokyo Journal, named them “Band of the Year”. In 1995, the band released... More Biography
