Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to Naoko Yamano of Shonen Knife!
Naoko turned 49 today, which no doubt makes her a MILF for both the punk and the J-pop set! She doesn’t look 49.
It sucks that I had to miss out on their recent US tour (behind their brilliant new album Super Group), but it’s cool to know that the band that straddled the line between punk rock and Japanese pop long before this blog came to be is still out there kicking some serious ass:
