Here are some sample tracks..
Track1: GOOD REASON
Track2: STATE OF THE ART
Track3: AMAZING GUNS
“SUNNIPS” T-SHIRT
& our new single, “FORTUNE COOKIE” in actual fortune cookies!!!
“i SHIT u NOT” album, 10″ Record, Logo Ts and more!
**NEW ALBUM & OTHER GOODS WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE & AT YOUR FAV NY RECORD STORE SOON!**
Literary fresh out of the oven, OUR SHIN!SHING! NEW SINGLE in a COOKIE!!
-with Each Nips’ scary fortunes!!!
1. Amazing Guns
2. Oblivious in Babylon
Yoko of HARD NIPS will join the night for MONKEY BUSINESS JAPAN NIGHT at Joe’s pub on MAY.6th sunday.
If you like the literature, japanese culture, please join the night! HARD NIPS CD, RECORDS are available at the venue.
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INFO and TIX here:
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,6125 LIVE from Tokyo, it’s “Japan Night @ Joe’s Pub,” a unique and very special trans-cultural evening of readings, music and live performances in the heart of downtown Manhattan. … Revered Japanese writers MASATSUGU ONO and TOMOKO SHIBASAKI, and award-winning author and translator MOTOYUKI SHIBATA arrive from Tokyo to share the stage with American authors STUART DYBEK, KELLY LINK, BARRY YOURGRAU and Canadian translator, scholar and editor TED GOOSSEN to launch the 2nd Issue of MONKEY BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL, the English-language edition of the acclaimed Japanese literary magazine that Pulitzer-winning author Junot Díaz calls “an astonishment” and “one of the year’s best publications.” The evening will be hosted by JAPANAMERICA author and Monkey Biz contributing editor ROLAND KELTS, and will feature live music by NEO BLUES MAKI, a soulful sushi roll of American jazz & funk and traditional Japanese pop, with guest appearances by YOKO SAWAI of Brooklyn’s THE HARD NIPS and others. Japanese-themed food and drink will be available; book-signings and a meet & greet session will follow. Brought to you by A Public Space Literary Projects and The Happy Ending Reading Series. |
It was fun party. thank you for having us!
“JAPAN’S HARD NIPS TALK SATAN, SUSHI, AND NIPS CANDY”
By Halley Bondy
July 28, 2011
“JAPAN’S HARD NIPS TALK SATAN, SUSHI, AND NIPS CANDY”
As fun as their name is, the New York via Japan girl rock group Hard Nips are even more fun in an interview. The 80s Blondie-styling rock ‘n rollers are on the verge of dropping another LP, and judging by their staggering Artist of the Week victory this week, the audience is hungry for it.
The foursome Emi, Mariko, Yoko, and The Gootch took the time to answer our very pressing questions. See what they had to say!
We understand that you all share a personal interest in better sushi, better sex, and more rock ‘n’ roll. Which of those three is hardest to find in New York? Any advice on finding good sushi?
Let’s just say, this is New York City there’s great sushi everywhere and there’s plenty of great rock-n-roll if you look for it. And sex is high art.
We hear the new album is all mastered. When is it coming out and what can we expect from the new songs?
On this new album we stopped trying to sound good. We love the songs on the first record because it was our first try to make a record, and it was us then, we did our best. The new record represents us better personally and musically NOW. It’s noisy, heavy, and very bangin’. It’s nice for us to be beyond the struggle of playing instruments and into a place where we can really sound how we want to sound. We had a great time making the new record and it’s going to be great to play live….
What inspired the song “Children of Satan”?
“Children of Satan” is a party song about the lie of good and evil. You may have an enemy but you are always the enemy’s enemy too. We are from Japan but we live in New York City, sometimes it seems very strange to be here when considering the past relationship of our countries. “Children of Satan” is very hard to say for Yoko’s short tongue.
Don’t you ever get sick of Nips candy?
Yes, we are very sick of them, but we get them for free now so it’s pretty much all we eat. Yoko broke her tooth the first time she ate a Nip. We maybe release Nips candy cookbook.
How did one of your songs end up in a Kewpie Mayonnaise commercial?
Kewpie is huge product in Japan, it’s consumed more than breast milk. We all grew up on Kewpie, so when the director came to our show we were really surprised. Same guy directs all the Kewpie commercials now, and the music is very important part of the commercial. We all still eat Kewpie mayonnaise, but since we played in the commercial, eating the Kewpie feels different somehow.
What was it like performing with Pika from Japan’sAfrirampo? Any plans for a collaboration in the future?
Pika has been a good friend for awhile now, when she comes to New York it is always most beautiful. Playing shows together is a party and an honor, but the best is going fishing together the next morning at the East river…yes we eat the catch! If we collaborate, it will probably be on a fishing video.
For Mariko: Who is your number one guitar hero?
uuuueechhhh… hard one, I wanna say Mick Barr for present times, and very much Hisako from Number Girl..it is a long and very cool list….
For Yoko: What is the name of the bar/restaurant that you run in Brooklyn? Is it still open?
Supercore is still open 7 days a week and now they deliver!!!!
For Emi: We heard that you had a terrible accident and had to take time off from the band. We’re glad you’re back. Did anything good come from the time you had to spend away from the drum kit?
It really intensified my appreciation for my friends, my bandmates, and Neil Diamond.
For The Gootch: How did you get your name?
My musical mentor named me that, he watched too many Different Strokes re-runs. I never heard of this TV show so I spent hours on the internet looking for “what is The Gooch?” I found this show’s episode called the “The Gooch”, I was so excited to see the person I was named after. But it’s strange, “The Gooch” never actually appears in the show, almost like he is a schoolyard myth. He is the school bully that threatens Gary Coleman.
You all started playing together before you could play instruments. What is your advice to non-musicians who dream of starting a band?
When you start a band, it’s a lot like getting married, therefore it is most important to be “friends first”. If you can not play AND you are not friends, your band will not be fun and your band will sound horrible, probably even worse than how we first sounded. We are very proud of our new record and it only exists because of our friendship…..
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“JAPAN’S HARD NIPS TALK SATAN, SUSHI, AND NIPS CANDY”
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canceled:
Todd P & Panache presents….
Sat 5/28
@ 285 Kent Ave Brooklyn NY
Quintron And Miss Pussycat
Hard Nips
Super Nice Bros
Xray Eyeballs
ALL AGES / 8pm
