Come experience Japanese psych rock bad-asses MUSHA x KUSHA live at Stanley's Pub as a part of their first North American tour! MUSHA x KUSHAwill get the night started and The Inturns will keep the party going all night long! Make sure you come out early for this one!
was formed in 1997 by Ikeda who plays a four string guitar and provides vocals, and Umehara who writes lyrics and dances as an expression from Kochi, Japan, where the last Samurai died out. The lyrics - based on the idea of punk spirit as literature and old-fashioned melodies influenced by Japanese traditional music-were composed by the current members, who gathered in 2016. They are very well well known and popular in the Japanese live houses, as they have played more than 2200 times in venues and live house all across Japan, and they are considered a very important band of the Japanese underground music culture.
Above all, this band has unique live performances that are impossible to describe if you have not seen them. Seeing MUSHAxKUSHA live, you will be so overwhelmed by the striking and powerful visual performance that you will not know where to look and experience a really tough vertical groove.
It's like a real mixture of Japanese tradition and American HardRock music culture.
The Inturns are a high-energy rock trio from Cincinnati, Ohio that’s hell-bent on making sure you have as good a time as they do. Tracing its beginnings to the friendship of guitarist David Taylor and bassist Gino Sena in 2008, their current lineup was created in early 2016 with the discovery of drummer Christian Bucholtz at an open jam in a bar that shall remain nameless. The rest, well, is history. Playing what they dub as “power indie,” their sound draws heavily from old school rock n’ rollers like Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and Kiss while blending elements from more modern acts such as The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, and Cage the Elephant to create a sound all their own.
