For a while, I have used Olate Download to manage the downloads I have up on the site.
Lately, I’ve been working on some stuff on the site here and wanted to update to the latest version. Since I last updated, it appears Olate Download has gone Open Source, but been abandoned? Not sure about that.
Anyway, […]
I took some photos at the Koza Live House a while back last time we played there. Some of the guys who used to be around asked me what the place looked like.
Of course, my photos don’t do it justice, but it is very nice. The backstage area is righteous as well.
There is a new live event this year: Rocktoberfest
It is on Torii Beach, Sunday, October 7. Monday is a Japanese and American holiday, so you know it will be good to go! We are playing it, along with Bleach, Inclusher, Chuckwow, Noiz As Hell, 8-Ball, F.O.D, Liberty Risk, and Fake Kingz.
The event is FREE and […]
I added quite a few live dates to the abiroji live schedule page. We are playing quite a bit the end of the month, a bit unusual for us lately.
Anyway, there’s some good lineups in there and a couple of cool shows to come out for. One is “Big Wave”, which is a show we […]
Lately, I’ve been studying music theory a bit more seriously and one thing I’ve needed to reference many times is the Circle of Fifths.
I wanted to try to get a diagram of the Circle of Fifths that consolidated some of the information all in one place. Things like the little shortcuts for determining the key […]
The band line-up for the live show Saturday has changed several times, but it looks like it will be Fake Kingz and Chuckwow with us. This is a pretty good line-up for Fuji’s I think, so I hope lots of people come check it out!
I think we play second, starting around 10p.m. Yasu keeps on […]
Not that I ever post a lot to my blog, but I haven’t been posting anywhere much lately. The reason why? We moved!
Yes, from the big city lights of Okinawa City - just a heartbeat from the action on Gate 2 street - to the relaxed country atmosphere of Yomitan Village. That’s right, I live […]
You can see a clip of our video, “Ad Jung” at SoundTV. I’m not sure exactly why it’s only a clip, rather than the entire video, but check it out anyway.
Here in Japan, a music video is called a “PV”, which stands for “Promotion Video”. If you browse around the site, you’ll see lots of […]
The abiroji CD release party is tomorrow night at Okinawa Cyber-box in Naha. If you are on island, I hope you’ll come out (directions and details are on the abiroji live schedule page).
Okinawa Cyber-box is a new live house, it’s the replacement for Junk Takasago - same guys and staff, new location. This is its […]
Well, today - finally - our first CD, “AD Jung” (Adrenaline Jungle) is in stores! I went down to Naha today, and checked it out in Takara Records, Tower Records, and Tsutaya.
It was especially cool at Tower Records, because they were playing the CD when I went in, and they also had the video playing.
We’ve […]
The new official abiroji home page is up at: abiroji.com
Although it’s all in Japanese, I hope you stop by and check it out anyway. Maybe we can get an English version up one day…
We have a live show tommorrow - yes, on a Wed. night - at Human Stage in Ginowan.
We are playing with several other bands from Spice Records, like Heaven’s Hemp, The Do-Nuts, Magnets, All Japan Goith. There is another band, Dirty Old Men, but I’m not sure where they are from - this is my […]
Finally, we have a date and place for the CD Release party!
It is Jan. 27 at Okinawa Cyber-Box, which is a new live house in Naha from the same people behind Junk Takasago. I will try to get a map up - I have to go down to Naha and find the place myself, I’ve […]
We are playing live this Sunday (12/3) at Human Stage.
One of my favorite bands, Dead Blood is playing - their new CD “Nothingness” comes out 12/6 - and also playing is Jigokuguruma (”Hell Car”), which have recently re-formed with all the original members. (You might remember that I was once in the band Suppon, which […]
Someone put up a live video of us on YouTube. The song is “Monster Beat”, and it’s on our new CD (which comes out 1/11/07).
The show was this summer’s Music Picnic, and the short clips at the start were promos for some TV shows or something. I remember it being crazy hot that day. Listen […]
We played the Gate 2 Street Fest today - it was a fun time. I think the sound guys did the best job I’ve seen yet at any of the Gate 2 festivals, so that was very nice. We also played a pretty good set, if I do say so myself. It was kinda nice […]
I accidentally destroyed the message board last night while trying to remove all the spammer user accounts. In the process, I wiped out the admin and real user accounts and was unable to restore the admin account information.
It’s really not that big a deal, I think, because there were only a handful of legit posts, […]
Everybody loves Guitar Hero,and the other day I ran across this great cartoon at xkcd:
I added a bunch of the upcoming semi-confirmed live shows on the abiroji live schedule page.
I say “semi-confirmed” because as of right now, it looks like these dates are all good-to-go; however, things could change and as you can see if you visit the schedule, all the details aren’t in right now.
I will try to […]
We have a live show tonight down at Junk Takasago in Naha.
I put the details up on the abiroji live schedule page