Make Music Day

2021 Listings: Monday, June 21st

Hard Nips

Yoko, Saki, Hitomi and The Gooch are four Japanese girls who laugh and yell at each other all the time. The riff-heavy, post-punk anthems of Hard Nips coalesce from jabbing, overdriven guitar and bass lines, big straight beats, and Yoko’s prepubescent straining. Each of the Nips came to live in New York at different times, from different parts of Japan. And, as conspired by the ever-dextrous hand of fate, they were to cross paths and become fast friends. Yoko ran a Japanese bar/restaurant in Brooklyn which conveniently gave the girls a place to meet, unwind, and escape the English speaking world. They quickly formed a cult-member-like bond whose rituals all included drinking a lot of alcohol and uncontrollably running their mouths in some unintelligible language (some say it was Japanese). The wine flowed like Kool-aid and, somehow, they found themselves buying into the delusion that they were capable of forming a kick-ass rock band.

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