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• THE FADEAWAYS - (I Wanna Get Some) Action! - New 7" Single!

  by Marty Shane November 18, 2011
  Swamp Fiction (that's the label branch of Pacifiction Records) has been hard at work releasing new & amazing garage punk from the Far East! The latest news is that THE FADEAWAYS, a Japanese band know for crunching up classic North West style garage has been chucking it back Stateside. They perfo...

• THEEE BAT & THE FADEAWAYS on Tour in the North East!

  by Marty Shane October 16, 2011
  Big news this Fall for Swamp Fiction, that's the record label branch of Pacifiction Records, and what all the garage punk nuts out there should be keeping an eye on! THEEE BAT have visited smoky London & played the Funtastic Dracula Carnival in Spain. Now they are making their US debut (along w...
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• HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol. 4, "House of the Dolls" A Japanese girls in the garage party!

  by Marty Shane September 5, 2011
  Welcome back to the HOUSE of MYSTERY, boys & girls! This past August 13th, was an fiercely female night of estrogen-fueled antics and adventure! Five gravely glamorous groups of Japanese femme-fatales appeared on stage at Club Heavy Sick along with special attractions including a sneak-peek scre...

• DJ-ing at THE GO-DEVILS new 7" release party!

  by Marty Shane August 18, 2011
  The Stately DJ Wayne Manor will be appearing at the latest party by the dynamic disc jockey duo YUKKUM YUKKUM, that's Mr. Death & OKD! It's the second installment of TOOLIE FROOLIE and features a host of DJs spinning classic garage, surf and rockabilly, not to mention some live & wild Japane...

• HEAL THE COAST - A Homespun Tsunami Benefit

  by Marty Shane August 15, 2011
  I put this benefit comp together way back last May but haven't done much to promote it. Five months on, there are still people in need and much recovery still going on, not to mention the uncertain future for those who lived and made their living around the Fukushima nuclear plant. That being said, ...

• MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol 6., "Last Days of May" & Wayne Manor's Birthday Party!

  by Marty Shane June 10, 2011
  So every year Mods run amok all around Japan. They've been doing so for nearly 30 years ever since the first Mods Mayday scooter run in 1980 or '81. I find myself endeared to this custom, not for being a Mod myself or for any real reason in particular. I just love the coming of Spring and I have an ...

• HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol.3: "The Hell Surfers Ball"

  by Marty Shane May 16, 2011
  Way back at the beginning of April, HOUSE of MYSTERY ushered in the summer beach party vibe with a night of surf & garage bands and vintage 60's trash and instro tunes. Not only that, it was part of a three-show Tokyo tour for UK high-power RnR band Atomic Suplex and their latest DVD release "...

• MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol. 5, Valentine's Day Rumble in Tokyo

  by Marty Shane March 4, 2011
  On February 14th 2011, numerous lonely hearts and some well-matched pairs drifted through an increasingly thick dusting of virgin snow as nighttime fell in Tokyo. Well as you know the nighttime is the right time especially for a party with a bunch of garage girl bands and a newly formed trio named t...

• HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol. 2, Rockin' Xmas Party in Tokyo!

  by Marty Shane January 17, 2011
  Tis' a tale of the season last that I shall tell so that we remember to keep our hearts warm with warm booze in our bellies... A season when sugar plum fairies with plump sugar plums go-go dance in our heads. When we give two fingers to that old man Scrooge and that bastard Grinch, too... And say Me...
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• HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol. 1 in TOKYO!

  by Marty Shane September 7, 2010
  Last Sunday I hosted the my first event in Tokyo which I hope to make into a regular series. My idea for Wayne Manor's HOUSE of MYSTERY is to not only have a savage line-up of Japanese garage & punk bands, but also include sideshow entertainments during intermissions. So last Sunday we were gra...
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