Love Psychedelico

Love Psychedelico promo at Comic-Con?

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:56:03 +0000

Are you headed to Comic-Con in San Diego in a few weeks?

If so, we are looking for a few people to help spread Delico around the convention. Please email shawnte at hacktone dot com for more information.

Thank you!

Love Psychedelico on BBC/PRI’s “The World”

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:10:52 +0000

*** RIGHT NOW! ***

Love Psychedelico will air on BBC/PRI’s “The World” TODAY!

In the LA area, it will air at 12pm on KPCC and 1pm on KCRW. It will be online at www.theworld.org afterwards. Check your local listings!!!

Listen here: http://www.theworld.org

SPIN Magazine reviews Love Psychedelico

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:35:24 +0000

http://www.spin.com/node/31355

Love Psychedelico, ‘This Is Love Psychedelico’ (Hacktone)

If Noel Gallagher doesn’t go gaga over this, we give up.

BY BARRY WALTERS 05.30.08 1:45 PM

Concocting an Asian update on ’90s Britpop that often eclipses the catchiness of their original sources, this Tokyo duo offers further proof that the right variation on proven Beatles and Stones riffs can leap over any language barrier. Singer Kumi brays in deadpan Japanese, saturated with enough seemingly random English slang to ensure that the hooks stick without ever revealing any linear logic — that’s the “psychedelico” part. The “love” is in the exactitude of the arrangements: Each precision-engineered riff and filigree fits precisely in the necessary spots. No fat, no filler, all fun.

Chicagoist reviews Love Psychedelico

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:42:51 +0000

[From Chicagoist]

Full Story

Rockin’ Our Turntable: Love Psychedelico
JUNE 24, 2008

“The group sings sunny, late-’60s inspired guitar pop, and its so finely constructed that when Kumi mixes both English and japanese into her lyrics you never even notice. In fact if we didn’t know the group was Japanese we’d easily mistake it for any number of excellent power-pop bands that flourish in the Midwest, hooked equally on Brian Wilson and Cheap Trick.”

PopMatters reviews Love Psychedelico

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:59:34 +0000

[From PopMatters - 6/23/08]

Full review: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/reviews/article/59233/love-psychedelico-this-is-love-psychedelico/

“Japanese pop-rock duo winds up pulling off Top 40 pop-rock better than most American acts today. Now that’s a hell of an accomplishment.”

Support Indie Record Stores & Love Psychedelico

admin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:26:00 +0000

SUPPORT INDIE RECORD STORES!!!

If you haven’t bought your copy of ‘This Is Love Psychedelico’ (or if you haven’t yet bought copies for your friends and family) - head over to the following indie stores, all of whom are carrying the album…and let them know how thankful you are that they’re supporting the album!!!

If indie stores in your area are NOT carrying this album, please let them know that you’d like to buy it from them and ask them to order it!

ALABAMA
Anniston - CD Cellar & Cosmic Debris

ARIZONA
Phoenix - Stinkweeds, Zia
Tempe - Zia
Tucson - Zia

CALIFORNIA
Berkeley - Amoeba
Claremont - Rhino Records
Encinitas - Lou’s Records
San Francisco - Streetlight
San Jose - Streetlight
San Luis Obispo - Boo Boo Records
Santa Rosa - The Last Record

COLORADO
Boulder - Albums on the Hill
Colorado Springs - Independent
Greeley - Finest CDs & Tapes

FLORIDA
Orlando - Park Avenue CDs Jr.
Tallahassee - Vinyl Fever

GEORGIA
Atlanta - Wax ‘n Facts
Athens - School Kids
Decatur - Decatur CD

IDAHO
Boise - Record Exchange
Coeur D’Alene - Long Ear

ILLINOIS
Chicago - Laurie’s, Reckless
Evanston - Vintage Vinyl
Geneva - Kiss The Sky
Normal - Waiting Room
Oak Park - Val’s Halla

INDIANA
Indianapolis - Indy CD & Vinyl, Luna Music
Richmond - Side 1 Music

MASSACHUSETTS
Cambridge - Newbury Comics
Easthampton - Night Owl Records
Peabody - Newbury Comics

MARYLAND
Baltimore - Soundgarden

MICHIGAN
East Lansing - Flat Black & Circular
Grand Rapids - Vertigo Music

MINNESOTA
St. Cloud - Electric Fetus

MISSOURI
Kansas City - Streetside

MONTANA
Missoula - Rockin’ Rudy’s

NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte - Manifest
Raleigh - School Kids

NEBRASKA
Omaha - Homer’s

NEW HAMPSHIRE
West Lebanon - Music Matters

NEW YORK
Rochester - Lakeshore

OHIO
Dayton - Gem City
Toledo - Culture Clash

OKLAHOMA
Norman - Guest Room

PENNSYLVANIA
Wilkes-Barre - Gallery of Sound

RHODE ISLAND
Providence - Newbury Comics

SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia - Manifest
Greenville - Earshot

TENNESSEE
Knoxville - Disc Exchange

TEXAS
Houston - Cactus
Selma - CD Exchange

UTAH
Draper - Graywhale
Salt Lake City - Graywhale

VIRGINIA
Charlottesville - Plan 9
Williamsburg - Plan 9

WASHINGTON
Seattle - Easy Street, Sonic Boom
Walla Walla - Hot Poop

WISCONSIN
Milwaukee - Atomic Records

Love Psychedelico CONTEST!

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:11:53 +0000

STREET TEAM CONTEST

1. Email your full name & address to psychedelico@hacktone.com by 12pm PST on Thursday, June 20, 2008.

2. We will supply one person each, selected randomly from all applicants, from Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, to receive a stencil and spray chalk. [We will also include a SASE for you to return the stencil when done with the project.] City representatives will be notified of their selection by 12pm PST on Monday, June 23rd

3. You’ll take the supplies and “logo your city”! You can either videotape (& post on YouTube) or take photos (and email or post on Flickr, sending us the link) of your work in “logo-ing your city,” which needs to be submitted to psychedelico@hacktone.com by 12pm PST on Monday, July 7.

4. We will select, from the three city representatives, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winners, based on overall coverage in their area, creative use of the stencils, and overall effort to increase visibility for Delico in their area. They will be notified of their place by 12pm PST on Wednesday, July 9 (all dates 2008).

5. It is entrant’s responsibility to follow all local laws! Spray chalk is washable/sweepable.

Love Psychedelico on NPR

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:36:18 +0000

“Standing Bird” was featured on the NPR show Second Stage:
Full story here

Oddly enough, Tokyo-based rock group Love Psychedelico has more in common with the British invasion than with its contemporary Japanese pop groups, and its U.S. debut, This Is Love Psychedelico, struts its western influences better than many bands this side of the Pacific. Pairing gutsy, Stones-inspired guitar riffs with undeniably catchy pop melodies, guitarist Naoki Sato (one half of the duo) mixes influences and styles as seamlessly as lead singer Kumi oscillates between Japanese and English lyrics. The end result is a bit derivative, but has a unique flair and a vitality all its own.

“Standing Bird” opens the record on a biting, bluesy guitar spike that immediately reminds the listener of Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing.” But the song quickly makes it its own, thriving on Kumi’s gritty female vocals. Combining sweet melodies with feisty groans, the song proves infectious whether or not you understand the Japanese or the English.

Love Psychedelico formed in 1997, and has a very large following in the Japanese rock scene, moving over 2 million copies of its 2001 debut record, The Greatest Hits. This Is Love Psychedelico is comprised of cuts from the band’s previous Japanese releases, including most of tracks found on the group’s 2005 compilation CD, Early Times. Because of this, the group’s Stateside debut sounds more like the work of seasoned rock veterans than first-timers, featuring countless radio-ready songs and great album tracks to boot.

The band continues to tour in Japan and across Asia, but will be in the States beginning in July, working on a new album in Los Angeles with a possible U.S. tour to follow.

Charleston City Paper reviews Love Psychedelico

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:37:45 +0000

Post & Courier (Charleston, SC)

Full story

“Hearing Delico for the first time is much the same as meeting a member of the opposite sex for the first time, and then learning that your potential new love interest is not only attractive, but also smart to boot.” (A)

Love Psychedelico in Philadelphia Daily News

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:09:28 +0000

Philadelphia Daily News

Full story

By JONATHAN TAKIFF

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

From Japan with beads, bells and incense comes Love Psychedelico with (what else?) “This Is Love Psychedelico” (Hacktone, A-). A frisky, frothy co-ed duo, they’ve been twisting my brain inside out with their nimbly shape-shifting, bilingual Japlish lyrics (listen long enough and it makes sense) and super-catchy guitar- and keyboard-buzzing rock, which samples classic flavors from the B-52s to Mott the Hoople to “Money” man Barrett Strong.

The duo has sold four million albums on home turf since 2001; this U.S. introduction represents a “best of” those domestic releases.