Akron/Family Japan Tour

by Daniel Michael Gahr

Official video for Akron/Family's gorgeous new song "Island" taken from their Dead Oceans / P-Vine (JP) - released LP "S/T II, The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT" (2011). Directed by Daniel Gahr.

contrarede presents
AKRON/FAMILY AKAK DREAMTIME 2011 TOUR

7/6 (wed)   Shibuya, WWW (03-5458-7676)
7/8 (fri)      Osaka FANDANGO (06-6308-1621)
7/9 (sat)     Nagoya, APOLLO THEATER (052-261-5308)
7/10 (sun)  Hamamatsu G-SIDE (053-541-5067)
7/11 (mon) Matsumoto ALECX (0263-38-0050)

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Akron/Family - SIMILARHAREZ
Akron/Family - Silly Bears

'SIMILAR HAREZ' is an alternate version of 'Silly Bears,'  the opening single from Shinju TNT.  It was contained in their double vinyl "bmbz" for Record Store Day 2011 (April 16th).

Earlier this year, Akron/Family approached kindred spirits and extended family (Greg Davis, Fletcher Kaufman, Phil Cook, and Mark Lawson) about an experimental collaboration based around the band’s S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT. The idea was simple: Give friends free reign to re-imagine the album by using the original songs as a starting point. A skeleton for their Frankenstein. This resulted in six different re-illuminations of the album that shed an entirely new light on Shinju TNT and the band.