mp3: ORESKABAND 20 tips
it’s hard to look past a six-piece, teenage ska band, especially when they hail from osaka and are fresh out of high school. honestly, when i read about oreskaband a couple of months ago, my typing fingers developed a twitch that didn’t rest until the album was secured and making its way across the pacific. stand up ikasu, tae-san, leader, saki, moriko and tomi. sure, oreskaband aren’t going to take home a bunch of awards for originality, but there’s no doubting their curiosity value and the guilty pleasure of enjoying their infectious, breezy two-tone revivalism. the improbably titled ‘yeah! ska dance’ catapulted them to instant recognition when both the song and the band appeared on a commercial for japan’s ‘pocky’ candy – since then, they’ve found time outside of study hall to play at the fuji rock festival and this year’s SXSW. they’re on this month’s warped tour throughout the states, promoting the u.s.-only album ‘oreskaband’ which blends their ‘ore’ e.p. with the original japanese debut ‘wao!’ (‘we are oreskaband’). head to oreskaband.com to find out their respective blood types, their favourite carb-heavy foods and which band member loves slipknot.