{"id":392,"date":"2007-10-09T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2007\/10\/09\/japanther-2\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:49:42","slug":"japanther-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2007\/10\/09\/japanther-2\/","title":{"rendered":"~Japanther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Japanther__1.jpg\" width=\"342\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Japanther #1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/japanther___2.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Japanther # 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/japanther_CD.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"368\" alt=\"Japanther CD art\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first saw JAPANTHER during an opening in front of DEITCH PROJECTS a few years ago.  They played this really frenetic set, out of the back of a small truck, which I coined as &#8220;Hard-Core Sing-Along&#8221; &#8211; since a lot of the kids in the audience sang along &#8230; I don&#8217;t remember the art show they played at, (it was Swoon), &#8211; but I&#8217;ll never forget their rock-on, fuck-on performance.  The songs were short, fast, catchy, and full of NICK CAVE guttural screams .. into &#8230;  their signature, handmade microphones-manipulated-from-old telephone handsets. <\/p>\n<p>All this is caught seamlessly on their newly released CD &#8211; <em>Skuffed Up My Huffy<\/em>. My favorite songs are the johnny rebel ones, like: <em>Challenge<\/em>, <em>River Phoenix<\/em>, and <em>Tender<\/em>&#8230;. but, all of the songs have a low-fi hard-core charm that is undeniable.<\/p>\n<p>So, all you never-die teenagers, grab this CD, a case of beer, and have a wild, arms akimbo party, <br \/> . . . singing . . . Fuck-ON!,  JAPANTHER.<\/p>\n<p>Artwork: by JAPANTHER \/ IAN VANEK (drums &amp; vocals) &amp; MATT REILLY (guitar &amp; vocals)<br \/>\n . . .&#8221;we are an in-house art directed band&#8221; &#8211; I.V.<\/p>\n<p>JAPANTHER, <em>Skuffed Up My Huffy<\/em>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menloparkrecordings.com\/\">MENLO PARK RECORDINGS<\/a> RELEASE\/SEPT 11\/2007<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanther.com\/\">www.Japanther.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/officialjapanther\">www.myspace.com\/official Japanther page<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2007\/10\/05\/japantherian-vanek1st-encounter\/\"><br \/>\nartlovers archival photo\/IAN VANEK\/2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2007\/10\/05\/japantherskuffed-up-my-huffy\/\">artlovers archival photos: IAN VANEK &amp; MATT REILLY at AU BAR\/SPRING 2005<\/a><br \/>\n(you can see a <em>red<\/em> telephone handset\/microphone, just above IAN VANEK&#8217;S head <br \/> in this 2005 photo of him, at the drums, at Au BAR, in the WEST VILLAGE.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw JAPANTHER during an opening in front of DEITCH PROJECTS a few years ago. They played this really frenetic set, out of the back of a small truck, which I coined as &#8220;Hard-Core Sing-Along&#8221; &#8211; since a lot of the kids in the audience sang along &#8230; I don&#8217;t remember the art show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}