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Yoshimi P-We sure likes to keep herself busy. When she's not drumming for brutal noise rockers Boredoms, hammering toms in drumming troupe OLAbi, or noise-making with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon in ... Read More

Japanese all-female group and Boredoms offshoot OOIOO's fifth album, 2006's Taiga, holds a more than respectable score of 78 on Metacritic, but it split Pitchfork listeners. The percussion heavy, o... Read More

It's rare, and usually a cop-out, to say so, but this is music so complete that it just is. Pile up the praise (it's fun, virtuoso, syncretic, energising) and you'll sound vague; pull it apart and ... Read More

WhenYoshimi P-We, all-girl noise band OOIOO’s formidable frontwoman, isn’t Battling Pink Robots on The Flaming Lips album of the same name, she’s popping up in the unlikeliest of places. You ... Read More

Spanish and Swahili seem like a strange combination of languages for a Japanese rock band, but for noise rockers OOIOO, it’s an oddly suitable choice. Armonico Hewa, OOIOO’s sixth full-length album... Read More

For those of you who haven’t been swept through OOIOO’s previous free-fall experiments, the band is a Boredoms offspring, all-female wonder. Yoshimi P-We, member of the noise extravagants and d... Read More

Although OOIOO (pronounced oh-oh-eye-oh-oh) provides the tallest platform for the towering visions of Yoshimi P-We, her role in the all-woman quartet is only her third most recognisable status. She... Read More

Armonico Hewa takes the excellence of 2006’s already phenomenal Taiga and refines it to the point where it seems like the band’s music is trying less to be music than it is to be Dilaud... Read More

Die Band um UFO Or Die-, Boredoms- und Free Kitten-Trommlerin Yoshimi vollendete unlängst ihr sechstes Album. Seit der letzten Langstücke-Sammlung 2006 veröffentlichte die Gruppe Taiga, sind Jah... Read More

OOIOO are good at having it both ways. The combo was originally a ruse, something that Boredoms drummer Yoshimi Yokota made up in order to have an excuse to bring some friends along to a photo shoo... Read More