Today we celebrate 30 years under the Knife. Yes, it was on Dec. 29, 1981, that three teenage girls - Naoko Yamano, her sister Atsuko and their friend Mitchie Nakatani - entered an Osaka rehearsal studio for the first time. They emerged as Shonen Knife.
Perhaps the world's sunniest band, Shonen Knife has carved out a niche playing poppy punk songs with Japanese and English lyrics about candy, animals and anything else that strikes them as fun. This approach has won them fans as diverse as Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening - and even Knife's lifelong heroes, The Ramones. (Japan Times)
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