Just wanted to highlight this band I randomly came across and instantly became a fan of recently.


Polkadot Stingray (ポルカドットスティングレイ)
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Formed in April 2014, they are:
Vocals/Guitar - (雫) "Shizuku Hayashida"
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Guitar - エジマハルシ "Ejima Harushi"
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Bass - ウエムラユウキ "Uemura Yuki"
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Drums - ミツヤスカズマ 'Mitsuya Sukazuma"
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Purchase their music:
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2017 
Electric.Public (エレクトリック・パブリック)


2016
Ningyo (人魚) "Mermaid"



Telecaster Stripe (テレキャスター・ストライプ)


2015
Yoake no Orange (夜明けのオレンジ) "Orange Dawn/Before Daylight"


They're fairly new so theres not much on them.
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Their bassist plays an Ernie Ball/Music Man bass?

This band is god damned awesome dude, I just found them a few days ago on the youtube related section and its amazing! Their live performances are godly such as this one:

Noodles wrote:This band is god damned awesome dude, I just found them a few days ago on the youtube related section and its amazing! Their live performances are godly such as this one:

haha thats how i came across them too. they really are awesome and all their music is available on itunes and amazon so i instantly bought it all. it seems theyre starting to gain traction too, "Telecaster Stripe" video was just under 100k views when i first watched it, and its now almost 500k. i cant wait for a full album by them.

i also love their enthusiasm 
heres them celebrating 40k views
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astoriasky wrote:

Noodles wrote:This band is god damned awesome dude, I just found them a few days ago on the youtube related section and its amazing! Their live performances are godly such as this one:

haha thats how i came across them too. they really are awesome and all their music is available on itunes and amazon so i instantly bought it all. it seems theyre starting to gain traction too, "Telecaster Stripe" video was just under 100k views when i first watched it, and its now almost 500k. i cant wait for a full album by them.

i also love their enthusiasm 
heres them celebrating 40k views
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Hahaha thats an awesome video, its great to see more japanese bands uploading their stuff to YT available for the entire world to see, I'm keeping track of all these small bands I Want to go and see live in japan and buy their cds!

They've been shared on some Facebook groups I'm part of in the last week or so. They seem pretty cool.

I wonder if they'll have a show I can see while I'm in Japan next month....

Just recently found them, and now they've got into my hot playlist!

Thanks for the heads- up on another great sounding band!

Hehe, I also randomly found them and they really caught my attention. Hopefully they will keep making great music!

Their music video for "Telecaster Stripe" hit 1 million views. 
Here is Shizuku's (singer) response on twitter.

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Wow, great find!  Love that they're funky. 

After listening to all the videos in this post I immediately bought what they had to offer on Amazon Music. 

Thank you, @astoriasky.

That acoustic bit of Telecaster Stripe was sweet.
It would be lovely if they did a full recording of that unplugged and threw it on a future release

Full band's response to hitting 1 million views.
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astoriasky wrote:Full band's response to hitting 1 million views.
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God Shizuku is so funny and cute, I see her tweeting stuff with her cat all day, I want more from this band!

Alert the group chat:

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Confirmed LIT!!! Shizuku is super awesome and these vids are hilarious, a bit shock that they would ruin the instruments like that but hey, whatever makes for a good MV right? 

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OMGGGG! they were talking about their new video coming out, didnt realize it was today! Ahhhh its gooood!

edit:
seeing Shizuku's piercings reminded me of Tomomi and Haruna's old piercings (which i kind of miss).

astoriasky wrote:seeing Shizuku's piercings reminded me of Tomomi's and Harunas old piercings (which i kind of miss).

Did someone say Shizuku-piercing-appreciation post?
Left ear (recent) & Madison:
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Left ear (older):
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Right ear:
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Some pics of the shoot haha

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Couldnt find a subreddit so i made one. If any of you want to join or become a mod please do and let me know. I have no idea what im doing T_T

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Lexian wrote:
Did someone say Shizuku-piercing-appreciation post?

man Shizuku is super cute.

astoriasky wrote:Couldnt find a subreddit so i made one. If any of you want to join or become a mod please do and let me know. I have no idea what im doing T_T

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Lexian wrote:
Did someone say Shizuku-piercing-appreciation post?

man Shizuku is super cute.

I'm down to get some shizuku pics on my feed every once in a while, I subbed, hopefully they grow and become huge, I'd love to see a lot more from them

Bump, 

Shizuku singing in english

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Woah woah! Highlight of the day 

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She said she lived in the UK for a year? That explains a bit why there's more than the usual amount of eigo in their songs.

...and per their website, a new EP drops on November 9th. 
.clap.

They're definitely a fun little band. They embrace some jazzy elements and embrace a bit of quirkiness without going overboard with it.

They're the kind of band I could envision being on the radio at the local hipster coffee bar. (And I mean that in a non-ironic, positive way.)

Update, hence not editing my prior post:

Polkadot Stingray's newest video, Mermaid, has already hit 500K views in just a month and a half since it's release.