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Yakitori

KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am

It’s a formula as old as time — take four Japanese ladies, dress them up in color-coordinated dresses and makeup, and have them play aggressive earworms featuring kawaii harmonies and the lethal precision of a veteran death metal band. And yet somehow Otoboke Beaver rise above the rest of the entrants in this crowded field. Who am I kidding, they are one of a kind, and if you’re not listening to their latest album on repeat, you are missing out on a lot of endorphins.

It’s a formula as old as time — take four Japanese ladies, dress them up in color-coordinated dresses and makeup, and have them play aggressive earworms featuring kawaii harmonies and the lethal precision of a veteran death metal band. And yet somehow <strong>Otoboke Beaver</strong> rise above the rest of the entrants in this crowded field. Who am I kidding, they are one of a kind, and if you’re not listening to their latest album on repeat, you are missing out on a lot of endorphins.
Otoboke Beaver
SongArtistNotes
Human Fly
2 Many DJs
Originally from the Cramps
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YAKITORI
Otoboke Beaver
Let it all out
Sonajeros
Dusminguet
Cataluñan all the way
Alocatel
Mexican Institute of Sound
Que no suene a Pinfloid
Hispanic Impression
Queens Of The Stone Age
Going back a ways
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IMPERIALISM (feat. Ashrita Kumar)
Anti-Flag
Time for a freakout
Fonz
Eugene McGuinness
Heyyyyyy
Wet Chems
Pet Shimmers
More groovy dissonance
Stop
Frank and Walters
For John O’Bee and the Cork crew
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First Bird
Bill Callahan
Waiting for the spring
Ivan Ska
Chandler Travis Philharmonic
Two tone fire
Human Nature
Sloan
Canadia rock megastars
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Controlled Burn
2nd Grade
Tape warpage and spelling!
In
Ciao Bella
I saw you kissing Jesus
Beer
Asylum Street Spankers
Don’t try this at home
Funky Town
Lipps, Inc.
I can’t go for that
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Mile Marker 29
The Bad Ends
The fire and emotion
Brazil
Arcade Fire
Originally from Sergio Mendes
By Your Hand
Los Campesinos!
Straight outta Wales
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Naked in the City Again
Hot Hot Heat
The very lost
EOL
Islands
Choose \n or \r
Questions And Answers
The Apples In Stereo
Going out to Floydgazi
Let Me Roll It
Paul McCartney & Wings
Spark one up
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Watchu Want
The New Mastersounds
Walk just like that
Trunk Fulla Amps
Self
Mother!
Number for Toots
All Mad Here
Legit
Koniya
Orchestra Gold
Pan-global melange
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Why I'm Grieving
The A's
Flashback to Raising Arizona
I’m Phime
Slim Bawb
Truly, OK
Hassidish
Solomon + SoCalled
Slice and dice
Es-so
Tune-Yards
The kilter, it’s off
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Turnip's Big Move
The Greyboy Allstars
Watch me now
Just Got Paid
Ministry
Originally from ZZ Top
I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
The Alan Parsons Project
What a turnaround
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Under No Nation
Goat
Join the tribe
Glory
Sault
Extra half-beat, just for you
Monate Ke Monate
Toxicated Keys
Quite casual
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K-Style Circut
The Royal Arctic Instittue
Winter surfing
Loteria
Drums and Tuba
Won it
Inkomo Zodwa
Miriam Makeba and the Skylarks
Warming up the night
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Slow City
All Them Witches
Rolling through the stoplights
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