Knives Out

Shonen Knife
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Momokawa Sake is sponsoring legendary Japanese band Shonen Knife’s “Everybody Happy US Tour” (their first North American dates since 2019!). In addition, Good Charamel will be releasing an expanded edition of Our Best Place on September 19, 2025.

About their upcoming tour of the U.S., Naoko says, “We’re so excited to bring our music to fans across North America and celebrate together with delicious sake. Shonen Knife is about fun, friendship, and happiness, and we can’t wait to share that with everyone.”

As previously mentioned, the band was last in town in October 2019, and when we saw them, we said, “Shonen Knife closed out the show. This was the tail end of their month-long 2019 USA tour (with one remaining date left at Cattivo in Pittsburgh)… so naturally the group’s famous merchandise was reduced to whatever they had left. Band leader Naoko had to apologize for only having their T-Shirts in Small and 2XL. In order to try and drum up sales, she would joke that young girls in Japan would buy XXL shirts as it was the fashion.”

Tour Dates:

• Sep 20 Buffalo, NY Music is Art Festival
• Sep 21 Boston. MA Sonia
• Sep 23 Hamden, CT Space Ballroom
• Sep 24 NYC Littlefield
• Sept 25 NYC Littlefield
• Sep 26 Baltimore, MD Ottobar
• Sep 27 Sellersville, PA Sellersville Theater
• Sep 28 Pittsburgh, PA Preserving Underground
• Sep 30 Columbus, OH Rumba Cafe
• Oct 02 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
• Oct 03 Ann Arbor, MI The Blind Pig
• Oct 04 Grand Rapids, MI Pyramid Scheme
• Oct 05 Indianapolis, IN Hi-Fi
• Oct 07 Kansas City, MO The Record Bar
• Oct 09 Denver, CO HQ
• Oct 10 Colorado Springs, CO Black Sheep
• Oct 11 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf
• Oct 13 Phoenix, AZ Rebel
• Oct 14 San Diego, CA Casbah
• Oct 16 Los Angeles, CA Roxy Theatre
• Oct 17 Fresno, CA Fulton 55
• Oct 18 San Jose, CA The Ritz
• Oct 19 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
• Oct 21 Novato, CA Hopmonk
• Oct 22 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s
• Oct 24 Portland, OR Star Theater
• Oct 25 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
• Oct 26 Tacoma, WA Spanish Ballroom

Her New Knife
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Philadelphia band Her New Knife is currently on tour. They’ll be in Minneapolis, at the 7th Street Entry, on September 30, 2025, opening for Water From Your Eyes.

We did catch the band in October 2024 and wrote, “Her New Knife, who opened the show was more in the shoegazing line. They had a forthcoming EP called chrome is lullaby which will come out in a few weeks.

HER NEW KNIFE LIVE 2025

• 09/22 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA #
• 09/23 – The Atlantis – Washington, DC #
• 09/24 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC #
• 09/26 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA #
• 09/27 – The Blue Room – Nashville, TN #
• 09/28 – Old Rock House – St. Louis, MO #
• 09/30 – 7th St Entry – Minneapolis, MN #
• 10/1 – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI #
• 10/2 – Sleeping Village – Chicago, IL #
• 10/3 – El Club – Detroit, MI #
• 10/6 – Bar Le Ritz PDB – Montreal, QC #
• 10/7 – The Drake – Amherst, MA #
• 10/8 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA #
• 10/10 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY #

  # – w/ Water From Your Eyes

Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals
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Baltimore duo Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals latest album A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears is out now.

They are heading out on tour:

• Sep 24 Metro Baltimore Baltimore, MD
• Sep 25 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH
• Sep 28 Cactus Club Milwaukee, WI
• Sep 29 Sleeping Village Chicago, IL
• Oct 2 Warsaw Brooklyn, NY
• Oct 23 Left of the Dial Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Oct 25 Black Box Belfast, UK
• Oct 28 Hootananny Brixton Brixton, UK
• Oct 30 LA CASE A CHOCS Neuchatel, Switzerland
• Nov 1 Maravillas Club Madrid, Spain

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