VINYL FORMAT. Hello is quite an apt name for the new HALF JAPANESE album considering it has been 4 years since their last album. It hasn't been a complete absence since their driving force and principle songwriter JAD FAIR has released a dozen albums in that time under different monikers or together with different bands, such as JAD FAIR & YO LA TENGO, ADULT RODEO, JAD & JASON, STROBE, JAD & KRAMER and soon there will even be a JAD FAIR & TEENAGE FANCLUB release. The last two HALF JAPANESE albums came out ...   [ read more ]

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STROBE TALBOT are JAD FAIR, Mick Hobbs, and Benb Gallaher. JAD AND DAVID FAIR formed HALF JAPANESE in Maryland in the early 1970s. With their revolutionary sound and musical approach, HALF JAPANESE served as a linchpin for both punk and post-punk movements. The band called themselves STROBE for a bit where they released a CD on a label in Portugal called Low Fly in limited edition of 550 copies. But then they changed it to STROBE TALBOT since there was another band by the name of STROBE. This was recorded...   [ read more ]

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First released in 1989 on Jad's own 50 Skidillion Watts Records, Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston's It's Spooky (as it was called for the European pressing; the American version carried the title Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair) seemed like the perfect pairing of two of the most unique and idiosyncratic songwriters to emerge from the post-punk rubble of the late-'70s. Jad and his brother David Fair self-released their seminal first album as Half Japanese in 1977, citing punk forefathers (and fellow Michigander...   [ read more ]

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