God of Shamisen News

Thank you Atlanta!

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:01:57 +0000

Thanks to the Japan National Tourism Organization for having us play at JapanFest Atlanta this year! We had a great time and met a bunch of new fans!

Also - we now once again have more T-Shirt sizes (Small thru XL) finally available to order in our website’s store. Check em out!

JapanFest and other Georgia tourdates!

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:34:03 +0000

Check out the top of our website to see the current tourdates. We have two shows performing at this year’s JapanFest in Atlanta, as well as various other shows in the Atlanta area. Kevin Kmetz will be performing a solo shamisen performance at Goergia State on Sept 16, as well as various acoustic workshops at JapanFest itself. Then the band has two 21+ rock club shows, one at the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta and one at the Wormhole in Savannah. The dates and details of these shows are at the top of our website!

We hope to see our southern fans at as many of these shows as possible! Of course, we’ll have our CD, 7″ vinyl, and t-shirts (finally back in all sizes) for sale as well. See you soon!

Geekbox Podcast

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:00:58 +0000

Kevin and Mark from God of Shamisen appeared on this week’s internet radio podcast, the Geekbox! You can check out Episode #26 here!

New Music Video!

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:39:51 +0000

God of Shamisen recently unveiled their first promo music video for a studio track!

Check it out!

Friday, July 31 in Oakland

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:14:08 +0000

God of Shamisen will come out of hiding and play The Fishtank at the end of this month - Friday July 31!

We’ll be joined by Shamalamacord, the shamisen + accordion duo, for their monumental CD release party!

The show will be ALL AGES!
Fishtank is located at 3405 Piedmont Ave.
The show starts around 8PM and will cost $5-20 donation.

Then later in August, expect an interview with GOS bandleader and shamisen master Kevin Kmetz on the awesome podcast The Geekbox. More details on that later…

JapanFest Atlanta!

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:24:59 +0000

God of Shamisen will be performing at JapanFest this September 19 & 20 in Atlanta!
This will be followed by many tourdates in the South USA. More details will be posted here soon!

Other Tours

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:23:52 +0000

GOS drummer Lee smith is touring with Orange Tulip Conspiracy this May!
Check out tourdates here.

Also this may, GOS bandleader and shamisen master Kevin Kmetz will be touring Japan in the shamisen group Monsters of Shamisen!
Check out Japanese tourdates here.

Recording for EMI Japan

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:21:09 +0000

We have just completed Kevin Kmetz’s solo CD with producer / engine-ear Billy Anderson, This is for major label EMI Japan! Check out some videos of us in the studio:

Back from tour! New CD!

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:19:04 +0000

We have just returned from a successful tour of the USA west coast!! Thank you, everyone who came to our concerts.

Our debut CD Dragon String Attack is finally out!
More album details here.

You can buy it from a number of places, including:

Our Store (CD + vinyl + shirts direct from the band!)
CDBaby (CD order)
iTunes Music Store (download DRM-free)
Amazon (CD order)
Amazon MP3 (download DRM-free)
LobeFood (CD order from Estradasphere’s online shop)

GOS on documentary soundtrack

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:18:25 +0000

God of Shamisen has a song featured in the new a rock climbing / bouldering documentary DVD. Check out the Big in Japan Tour DVD from DrTopo.com!

Our full-length album, Dragon String Attack, was recently completed!! We are currently looking for label and distrbution offers. Our CD should be available sometime in 2008! For release date announcements, please sign up on our email list, to the right.