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Dustin and Takako will tour the US

Posted on 09.27.14 under Dustin Wong, Takako Minekawa, thrill jockey

“Savage Imagination” is the new and 2nd album for Dustin and Takako out on Art Union/Plancha in Japan and Thrill Jockey in America.

Takako just got through the first part of the visa process and will go for her interview nest. Tour date have been scheduled:

11.07.14 – Northfield, MN – The Cave at Carleton College (w/ William Tyler)
11.08.14 – Chicago, IL – The Hideout
11.09.14 – Detroit, MI – MOCA Detroit
11.10.14 – Toronto, ON – Handlebar
11.11.14 – Montreal, QC – Casa Del Popolo
11.12.14 – Pawtucket, RI – Machines With Magnets
11.13.14 – Princeton, NJ – Terrace Club
11.14.14 – Brooklyn, NY – Palisades
11.15.14 – New York, NY – Cake Shop
11.16.14 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
11.17.14 – Baltimore, MD – Floristree
11.19.14 – Durham, NC – The Pinhook
11.20.14 – Atlanta, GA – 529
11.21.14 – Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder
11.24.14 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
11.26.14 – Tempe, AZ – 51 West
11.28.14 – Los Angeles, CA – Club Los Globos
11.29.14 – San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern
12.01.14 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
12.03.14 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern
12.04.14 – Boise, ID – The Crux
12.06.14 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake Lounge

Here’s the new video for “Pastel Ice Date.”

A couple of recent interviews:
tiny mix tapes
Impose Magazine
i-D/Vice
Japan Times
And the Pitchfork review.

An excerpt from a Night @ Soup Ochiai

Posted on 09.09.14 under Dustin Wong, Dustin Wong, Greg Fox, Ochiai, Ruins Alone, Soup

An exerpt from a Night @ Soup, Ochiai from Malcolm Wong on Vimeo.

Greg Fox and Dustin Wong are ready to encounter Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins (Alone) at Soup Ochiai. A heavy night of underground music. No melodies, no verse, no bridge, no chorus. But lots and lots of rhythmic chaos… Featuring Tatsuya Yoshida “[the] indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground”

Takako Minekawa & Dustin Wong new video

Posted on 08.23.14 under Dustin Wong, Savage Imagination, She He See Feel, Takako Minekawa

The duo’s 2nd album, “Savage Imagination,” drops Aug 28 via Thrill Jockey in America and Plancha in Japan. Here’s a video of “She He See Feel” to pave the way.

Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa – She He See Feel from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Read the Pitchfork review here.

120 minute nonstop live @ Soup

Posted on 03.18.14 under Dustin Wong, Dustin Wong

Dustin played without stopping to take a breath, one tune merging into another for 2 hours straight…

Dustin’s latest album, Mediation of Ecstatic Energy.

Two days later, Dustin had a talk/performance with photographer, Honma Takashi, at the Axis Building in Roppongi.

Tokyo Tower

The talk included video footage of a deer hunt in Hokkaido. There was a shot of a deer scrambling to escape in slow motion, hunters in florescent garb, butchering, the preparation of venison in a small gourmet restaurant. And three kinds of birds that descended on the offal. The small birds came first. Then the crows. Then the hawks came last.

LIve at UFO, Koenji, Tokyo

Posted on 01.19.14 under Blythe, Dustin Wong, Momus, Takako Minekawa

Takako Minekawa played her first solo live in 13 years at UFO.

Buddy & the Mechanics were also on the bill.

While they played, we hung out in the green room with Momus who came up from Osaka to do this show.

Hippopota Momus was the first CD Isaac got (from his brother, Dustin), so it was kind of thrilling for him to meet him.

Dustin and Junko take a seat…

A British(?) author, Justin Isis, was also in green room trying to rustle up some promotion shots for a novel he wrote with Quentin S. Crisp, and Brendan Connell, “The Cutest Girl in Class.” Set in New Jersey, the cover featured a model holding Blythe. An unauthorized usage, by the way. He spent the rest of the evening in a state of nerves probably hoping that he wouldn’t have to pay royalties…

A fun night, with the added bonus of being close to home.