Asobi Seksu is Kicking Their Tour Off Tonite

Asobi Seksu Winter/Spring Tour Dates
Feb 20 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts*
Feb 21 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom*
Feb 23 Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights*
Feb 25 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground*
Feb 27 Portland, ME @ The Station*
Feb 28 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East*
Mar 01 Providence, RI @ The Living Room*
Mar 02 Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre*
Mar 03 Washington DC @ Black Cat*
Mar 04 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom*
Mar 06 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theatre*
Mar 07 Buffalo, NY @ The Icon*
Mar 08 Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues*
Mar 09 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts*
Mar 10 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall*
Mar 12 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall*
Mar 13 Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre*
Mar 15 Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar 16 Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar 17 Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar 18 Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone
Mar 19 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
Mar 20 Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light

*w. The Ataris & Wax on Radio

Asobi Seksu: Rock 'N Roll Hotel, January 19th

Fear not scurvy laden friends of Metro D. Come January your body will once again be able to synthesize collagen correctly.

Last Friday might have been a bust and we may never have located Baltimore, MA, but Asobi Seksu will be invading our ear canals come 2007. I'm finally getting into their first LP after being on Citrus overload the last few days. Is Citrus creeping in to my Top Ten from 200Seksu? We will have to wait and see. At this point anything is a possibility because I am having a really hard time narrowing the year in music down.

Each of Asobi Seksu's studio releases offers something different. You can see a nice growth from the self-titled debut to Citrus, they are two separate sounds, but they still share a common, heart-tugging thread that is filled to the brim with reverb nastiness and catchy choruses. Finally the '07 shows are popping up on the calendar...

Fri Jan 19: Washington DC, Rock 'N Roll Hotel
[Calendar | Tickets]
[Official Site: Asobi Seksu]

   

MP3: Asobi Seksu - "I'm Happy But You Don't Want Me"
MP3: Asobi Seksu - "New Years"
MP3: Asobi Seksu - "Thursday"

Agnostic-approved holiday bonus track:
MP3: Asobi Seksu - "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)"

Asobi Seksu! Tonight! Somewhere?! Maybe??

I don't know where Baltimore, MA is and I am not sure what time of day TBA is, but it's December 8th now and Asobi Seksu is supposedly playing Baltimore, MA tonight. Now, Baltimore, MA could easily be Baltimore, MD by way of a typo. Kind of like how that "k" in Seksu could easily be an "x" depending on your location in the internets.

Logic suggests MA is MD because last night they played Local 506 in Chapel Hill, NC (Go Heels!) and tomorrow night they play Khyber Pass in Philadelphia, PA. I've done a little bit of traveling up and down the eastern seaboard and the last time I checked Baltimore is between Chapel Hill (Go Heels!) and Philly.

I don't know. TBA is TBA and could mean MIA or "naga naga not gonna happen." I will keep you posted if we hear, read, or see anything. At any rate Asobi Sexsu's sound is shoegaze through and through, but it also has Stereolab and Velvet Underground qualitites falling into their musical fold.

I'm no Brian Howe when it comes to interpreting symbols on my iPod, but the word on the street is that Asobi Seksu means "playful sex" in Spanish Japanese. Additionally, they just released a live CD that you can pick up at Insound. They got all creative on us and named it "Live at the Echo 10/6/06". Click on the links and get your Vitamin Citrus.

  

MP3: Asobi Sexsu - "Strawberries"

[Official Site: Asobi Seksu]