Now 20 years into their existence, Japanese experimental rock band OOIOO have lost one of their founding members. Kyoko, who assisted Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We in starting the band, has passed ...

The 90s are back! Veruca Salt plays on Monday, and that’s something to get excited for. Unfortunately, the show is sold out. While they’re not the blast of angsty nostalgia Veruca Salt would have been ...

Two veteran noise rock bands, Rhode Island’s Lightning Bolt and Japan’s OOIOO, have teamed up for a split LP called The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral that arrives on April 24 via Thrill Jockey ...

Kyoko, the mononym guitarist and founding member of Japanese experimental rockers OOIOO, died on Sunday. Her former bandmate, Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We, confirmed the news with an Instagram post. ...

OOIOO's new album, Gamel, comes out July 1. You may be unfamiliar with OOIOO, but you've likely heard of the woman behind all those vowels: Yoshimi, drummer in the raucous Japanese band Boredoms and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightening Bolt. (Credit: Scott Alario) You might be disappointed to learn that OOIOO and Lightning Bolt do not actually ...

A basic principle of science is that experiments are bound to fail as often as they succeed, a point usually glazed over by devotees of experimental music. Because the cookie-cutter recording industry ...

With the groups Boredoms and Free Kitten, Japanese percussionist/vocalist YoshimiO (formerly Yoshimi P-We, erstwhile muse for the Flaming Lips) has been an unswerving agent for sonic chaos and ...

“How am I going to age gracefully in this job?” a silver-haired Natalie Merchant asks in the promotional video with her new self-titled album. The 50-year-old singer notes that the machinery of ...