Material+Fuji Rock

Material
Square Dance
Memory Serves LP
Celluloid/CBS Sony 1982

Bill Laswell and gang. Jazzyfunkskronk. Check it out, you'll like it.

Endnotes
1. Laswell will be playing at this year's Fuji Rock Festival with Praxis, which kicks off next week. The lineup this year is pretty good: Pixies, Fiery Furnaces, !!!, the Stills, Lou Reed, Dizzee Rascal, Franz Ferdinand, Basement Jaxx, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, White Stripes...you get the picture. Plus, Shina Ringo's new band Tokyo Jihen, Tha Blue Herb mixmaster O.N.O., Boredoms' offshoot Omoide Hatoba, old school punks Aburadako, and way old school Mentai Rock band the Roosters, playing one last show.

I'm not attending.

Spending three days stuck in the mountains of Niigata with tens of thousands of raving drunks is not my idea of fun. Yes, there are NO one day passes: all tickets cover the full three days. If I had ¥36,000/$330 US (not including parking/camp fees) to spare, I might check out a day.

BTW, Niigata is hundreds of kilos from Fujisan, the mountain the fest is named after.