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June 30, 1999

Cibo Matto Conquer Opening Night Jitters in New York

Cibo Matto Conquer Opening Night Jitters in New York
June 29, 1999

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Bowery Ballroom, New York, June 8, 1999
June 9, 1999

Cibo Matto Serve Up the Sauce

Cibo Matto Serve Up the Sauce
June 8, 1999

Cibo Matto Serve Up the Sauce

Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto transcend stereotypes on their second album

Stereo Type A

Japanese girl groups like Shonen Knife and Pizzicato Five are usually rock's novelty toys -- harmless, musically simplistic, campily naive. But Cibo Matto have always been more levelheaded and masterful than their musical sisters, and this busy, funky, self-assured second full-length album is nobody...

1999 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Centered around two female Japanese musicians, Cibo Matto grew out of New York's cultural and musical melting pot in the mid-'90s. Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda met in the East Village in 1994. Hatori had just moved there from Japan (where she was in a group called Kimidori) the previous year, but Honda had been there since 1987, playing with such local luminaries as the Brooklyn Funk Essentials and ...

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