Brooklyn, NY's loud as hell, fuzzy as crap, and catchy as shit, noisy duo stormed Halifax, with three, THREE shows. Though the photos above were not actually taken in Halifax, they were taken during the Japanther rush, in Charlottetown PEI, where Sharp Like Knives was lucky enough to play two shows with them. We're going to be honest. We like their records ok. We listened to them sometimes, but we were never fully gone over these guys. Until we saw them play. There's no words for a Japanther live show, friends. No. Words. Consider us converted. (well, partially converted, since we were never exactly naysayers.) By the way, those pink things are telephone receivers, converted to microphones. Awesome. And, nice? Jesus, we don't think they could be any nicer!

There was also K'naan, who in the 20 minutes that we were able to stay awake to hear him, was so awesome, we seriously considered taking up drugs as a means to stay awake for the rest of the performance. (we kid. we kid. but he was seriously rad.)

And then, there was the Mock Explosion. The Pop Explosion's greatest nemesis, fiercest menace, cutest little sibling. The Mock Explosion, held entirely at Gus' Pub showed a home to such bands as The Stolen Minks, Wax Mannequin, Tragedies, Die Brucke, Tom Fun and the Holy Microphone Machine, The Jeff Coll Five and.. as a spur-of-the-moment surprise... Japanther!!! Gus' being one of our favourite local watering-holes, (ok, maybe not - their gingerale is all diet! but favourite pub? you bet.) it's a great place to watch bands, and really get to watch them. And the fact that it's hidden up in the north end means that you don't have to worry about seeing past more than 30 people on any given night.