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SonicSam 07.04.2007 03:16 PM

Mika Miko
 
Anyone see them on their UK tour?
So good, most fun band I've ever seen probably.

Toilet & Bowels 07.04.2007 04:43 PM

i skipped their show last night because my friend who i was going to go with couldn't make it. i'll see them next time.

DJ Rick 07.04.2007 08:47 PM

Love these ladies! Looking forward to seeing them again here soon. Their "666" LP is just out recently, and it's a slayer.

SonicSam 07.06.2007 08:33 AM

yeah, it's awesome isn't it? I just need the LP on KRS now.
Yeah, that video is good too!!

PAULYBEE2656 07.06.2007 10:25 AM

they played or are playing dublin soon. gonna check em out. love their stuff, what ive heard any way

DJ Rick 07.06.2007 12:05 PM

Jenna from Mika Miko is also in this really great band called Silver Daggers who have an LP/CD on Load out recently and a split 7" w/ Shearing Pinx. And they sound a lot like Dogfaced Hermans...

http://www.myspace.com/silverdaggers

Richard Pryor on Fire 07.06.2007 12:13 PM

My friends band played a show with them and ended up getting two of them real drunk and the third one got super pissed off and they almost broke up.

PAULYBEE2656 07.06.2007 12:16 PM

i never knew that!! the silver daggers album is excellent!!!!

DJ Rick 07.06.2007 01:03 PM

Silver Daggers are even better live than on that record. I quibble a little with the urgency level of the album--not sure if it's the performance or the production--but that band's live show has had the same kinda impact as seeing Lightning Bolt in a tiny living room...or something approaching close to that. The record's still pretty good, and both of these bands are among my absolute faves going today.

I know of a few very new bands that started specifically because all the members were at the same Mika Miko show and became inspired. Few bands have that kinda potential to spark such a reaction.

If Mika Miko were around back in the early to mid-90's, I think their "666" LP would rate among the very best records of the riot grrl era (which, if you think about it, not a lot of those records have stood the test of time).

I played the rarest Mika Miko song on vinyl on the latest AFS--"Challenge the Throne" from the "Treasure Tropics" 4-band 7" comp--so go hear it if you like (you might find it very difficult to hear any other way). It's one of their best recordings.

When Jenna was a guest DJ on an AFS show last year, she played a Rubella Ballet song, and her musical sensibilities all began to make sense to me.

SonicSam 07.06.2007 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ Rick
If Mika Miko were around back in the early to mid-90's, I think their "666" LP would rate among the very best records of the riot grrl era (which, if you think about it, not a lot of those records have stood the test of time).


Totally man. It's because that stuff isn't as big as it was which is stopping this album being huge.

uhler 04.04.2008 02:51 PM

mika miko is probably my favorite band to come out in the last few years. well, both them and no age. but i like mika miko better.

silver daggers are great too!

batreleaser 04.04.2008 04:53 PM

theyre fuckin great. wipers meets black flag done right by some barely outta their teens chicks.

when the fuck did la get so awesome? the mae shi (the best), mika miko, health, no age, a dick load of others.

uhler 04.04.2008 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by batreleaser
theyre fuckin great. wipers meets black flag done right by some barely outta their teens chicks.

when the fuck did la get so awesome? the mae shi (the best), mika miko, health, no age, a dick load of others.


yeah la was fucking lame before the scene from the smell. oh and buddyhead was always cool.

dionysusundone 04.05.2008 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ Rick

When Jenna was a guest DJ on an AFS show last year, she played a Rubella Ballet song, and her musical sensibilities all began to make sense to me.


That is so fucking cool.

batreleaser 04.05.2008 11:55 AM

buddyhead was cool for a couple years, but then they quickly got lamer and lamer and less funny as the years went on. now theyre a joke.

uhler 04.05.2008 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by batreleaser
buddyhead was cool for a couple years, but then they quickly got lamer and lamer and less funny as the years went on. now theyre a joke.


i still dig them. i read the blog about twice a month. i think they just wanted to do something else that was more serious than putting up fred durst's number. they still write some funny shit though.

batreleaser 04.05.2008 12:32 PM

the bands htey cover now i think are mostly shit.

uhler 04.05.2008 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by batreleaser
the bands htey cover now i think are mostly shit.


yeah they do cover some shit bands.

forkimified 04.06.2008 07:15 PM

I saw them live here in Ottawa. The only reason I saw them was actually because I went to see my former co-worker's band open up. They were good, but they had their thunder stolen by the Quebec band Thundrah, who gave me a free CD for dancing :p.

Although I did buy both the CDs they were selling, and introduced them to the awesomeness that is the two-dollar coin.

My girlfriend didn't like them much, but now she REALLY wants a telephone microphone to sing into. She refers to them in conversation as the 'pointy boob girls' we saw.

I might have liked them more if they put the sax to more use! It's just not an instrument you hear often anymore. And it made them sound kinda x-ray spex. Prob half the reason I like Silver Daggers is the basic fact that sax is involved :p

SYRFox 04.17.2008 03:11 AM

Just discovered those girls, they're really awesome and fun! I love the telephone mic idea. Also am I the only one thinking that this sounds a bit like that early SY noisefest show with Ann Demarinis? Maybe it's just the fact that there is two women singing but well

Especially in thta vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtaeD...+1-QtaeDhTq0vk


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