Shonen Knife
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Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 2 December 1992
TOKYO APPARENTLY has a flourishing indie scene, and female trio Shonen Knife are its stars. Their popularity certainly emphasises the cultural gap between East and ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 6 September 1990
SHONEN KNIFE consists of three young Japanese women who play some of the happiest, snappiest rock & roll ever to bounce off a satellite dish. ...
Shonen Knife: Pretty Little Baka Guy & Live in Japan (Rockville)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, June 1991
WHAT REALLY puts the pop-rockettes in Japan's legendary Shonen Knife light-years ahead of such inconsequential Western frauds as "Lush" (how Shonen Knife would pronounce Rush) ...
Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 11 January 1992
LAST YEAR in America a tribute album devoted to SHONEN KNIFE came out, with all the usual suspects like Sonic Youth on it. ...
Shonen Knife: Let's Knife (Virgin)
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, March 1993
ALMOST TEN YEARS since its recordings first invaded the U.S. as a Japanese import in late 1983, Osaka, Japan's punkiest Barbie doll fans are finally ...
Shonen Knife: Naughty But Knife
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 18 November 1992
Their songs have titles like 'Flying Jelly Attack' but Shonen Knife claim it's all serious stuff. As London succumbs to a Japanese arts invasion, Nick ...
Shonen Knife: Rock Animals (Virgin)
Review by Pat Blashill, Details, February 1994
SHONEN KNIFE are insanely cute; it's both their blessing and their curse. ...
Review by Steve LaBate, Paste, 10 January 2012
WHEN THEIR FIRST HOMEMADE CASSETTE came out in Japan in 1982, who woulda thought that Shonen Knife would still be around, making records and touring ...
Shonen Knife: Dagger Dagger Hey!
Profile and Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 21 November 1992
Do SHONEN KNIFE have some sinister masterplan to conquer Planet Pop or are they just a happy freakshow? STEVEN WELLS pulls on his combat fatigues ...
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