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At the very beginning of Jon Helmer’s DVD Tents & Bugs and Rock N Roll, we see a dreadlocked Aussie or Kiwi or Brit (damned accents) standing outside the Naeba hotels getting totally excited about the fact that, somewhere within the walls of that hotel is Limp fucking Bizkit (profanity added by the present writer to better portray said excitement). This first section having been filmed in 1999, I concluded that either a) this was exactly the sort of time-warp nostalgia experience you look for in a DVD like this, because clearly the memo from on hipster high that the Bizkit suck hadn’t yet been circulated, or quite possibly b) this gentleman just thinks for himself. (For the record, I still think “Break Stuff” is one of the top 5 greatest raging angry songs ever.)
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Tents & Bugs & Rock N Roll: 10 Years Of FRF ON DVD
Chuck D on PBS
Public Enemy front man Chuck D is one of the featured interviewees in a new TV documentary Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement now airing on America’s public television station, PBS. The above YouTube clip seems to be some sort of rough cut of the Chuck D interview used in the doc, though it’s hard to be completely sure. Slightly confusing, the documentary also appears to be for sale under a slightly different name, Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement on amazon.com.
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Old Schoolers
The first time I saw Asakusa Jinta, I knew they were Fujirock material.
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SAKEROCK: Pour One On
The guys in Sakerock are oddballs indeed. Then again, few instrumental bands led by a trombonist make it anywhere, so why not play to your strengths?
Pop Anonymous
Few musicians can claim a career trajectory like UA, Japan’s favorite anti-diva.
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Lord of the Dance
If you love music festivals and haven’t seen this one yet, then checkit: crazy white dude’s funky chicken impression reaps rewards – a classic music fest moment (really picks up round the 1:00 mark). The forces is strong in this one…
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Weezer: どいたしまして。(Don’t Touch My Mustache!)
Rivers Cuomo brings his love affair with things Japan (or, at least, things Japanese girls) back for (yet) another appearance at a summer festival here. You’d think with the number of times Weezer has played here (and the fact Rivers’ wife is Japanese) that he/they/their webmaster would know Naeba Ski resort is nowhere near Mt. Fuji, Japan – but I guess that’s what a Harvard degree’ll learn ya’ these days.
