You may be unfamiliar with OOIOO, but you've likely heard of the woman behind all those vowels: Yoshimi, drummer in the raucous Japanese band Boredoms and muse behind The Flaming Lips' famous Yoshimi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightening Bolt. (Credit: Scott Alario) You might be disappointed to learn that OOIOO and Lightning Bolt do not actually ...

For many years, Providence noise-rock legends Lightning Bolt and experimental Osaka wizards the Boredoms have recognized each other as fellow travelers. I once saw Lightning Bolt open a New York ...

Two veteran noise rock bands, Rhode Island’s Lightning Bolt and Japan’s OOIOO, have teamed up for a split LP called The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral that arrives on April 24 via Thrill Jockey ...

Two dormant giants of experimental rock, Lightning Bolt and OOIOO, have teamed up for a split LP, The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral. The Thrill Jockey labelmates will release the record on the ...

A basic principle of science is that experiments are bound to fail as often as they succeed, a point usually glazed over by devotees of experimental music. Because the cookie-cutter recording industry ...

Boredoms drummer and Flaming Lips album-title inspiration YoshimiO started the experimental side project OOIOO in 1996, and they've traveled down lots of pathways in the 30 years since then. OOIOO ...

“We humans each possess a nature to repeat, yet with each repetition we grow more attuned,” says OOIOO founder and bandleader YoshimiO. “We don’t repeat in the same place; that repetition spirals ...

Kyoko, the mononym guitarist and founding member of Japanese experimental rockers OOIOO, died on Sunday. Her former bandmate, Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We, confirmed the news with an Instagram post. ...

Yoshimi P-We is the coolest person in the world. There really isn’t any credible argument against this truth. She drums and screams and plays trumpet for the Boredoms, a Japanese band so bizarrely ...