shonen knife Archive
21 Oct 2025
Shonen Knife: Girls (Still) Rock
Four decades-plus after their start, Japanese pop-punkers are in their ‘Best Place’ When Shonen Knife broke through to an American audience in 1981, the trio from Osaka, Japan had already […]
24 Jan 2017
Shonen Knife: Sharp as Ever
The Japanese have long had an odd fascination for specific bits of Western pop culture. Even if confining the discussion to pop music, there are myriad examples. The 1960s garage […]