Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Just got a package from Dehara with some bonus goodies. Everyone knows about faces in the window, figures in the background, and ectoplasm, but Menta Kun is the real deal. Thanks, Dehara and Yoko!
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Not all Pinoys listen to disco and dance music. Take Flattbush, the leftist thrash crew I interviewed for Giant Robot way back in Giant Robot 45. At Sunday's One Day as a Lion show, I ran into Armon and (honorary Filipino) Joe. Great to see them, almost a year to the date that they totally ripped at our Comic-Con party (pic above). The good news is that the Bellflower band is almost ready to drop a new album on your capitalist, cake-eating ass! OTOMATIK ATTAK! is executive produced by Faith No More's Billy freaking Gould and released on his Koolarrow record label, and home of fellow GR alum Brujeria.
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This afternoon I got to see One Day as a Lion at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock. Although the band's EP came out in 2008, this weekend marked their first two shows in the U.S. Yesterday's gig was in front of 80 people in Pomona. Today's was in Zack's city of residence, Eagle Rock. There was a ton of buzz around the show, with a tiny venue, tickets going on sale (and immediately selling out) just three days before, and the locations of the gigs not being announced until either morning. When we got to the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts at 3:00, there was already a line around the corner and the sun was blazing.
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Giant Robot 66 made it to Sawtelle today, and is available at the Giant Robot stores. Here's store manager Michelle, who happened to contribute a travel article about Korea to the issue. GR67 will feature the second part o her journey, which was to Mongolia. At the original GR store, the magazine is right by the counter.
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