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All-New 15th Anniversary Expanded Edition of the critically acclaimed debut album by Osaka Popstar! Featuring members of The Misfits, The Ramones, Black Flag and The Voidoids, plus special guest appearance by indie music icon Daniel Johnston. New bonus tracks, 24 bit audio remaster, deluxe gatefold LP packaging & 20-page booklet with expanded artwork & liner notes. Available for the first time on vinyl!

If classic NY punk, anime, cult movies, comic books & toys formed a band on a sugar rush it would sound like Osaka Popstar. 180 GRAM Limited Edition Colored Vinyl.

Fronted and produced by longtime Misfits & Ramones collaborator JOHN CAFIERO assembling a backing band of SUPER LUMINARY ORIGINAL PUNK ROCK SUPER HEROES, featuring JERRY ONLY (THE MISFITS), MARKY RAMONE (THE RAMONES), DEZ CADENA (BLACK FLAG), and IVAN JULIAN (RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS). They rip through a roller coaster of high-speed hooks and catchy choruses, recalling the very best of New York City Punk Rock.

Media

Watch Osaka Popstar - Sounds Crunchy Even in Milk! (Animated Spot) »

Track Listing

Bonus Materials

• New bonus tracks, 24 bit audio remaster, deluxe gatefold LP packaging & 20-page booklet with expanded artwork & liner notes

Sales Points

• On Record Store Day Black Friday 2021 a split 12' between Grammy award winner 'Weird Al' Yankovic & Osaka Popstar was released.
• An all-new Osaka Popstar release 'Ear Candy' debuts in February 2022.
• Among other collaborations Osaka Popstar have been featured in Topps 'Garbage Pail Kids' & 'Wacky Packages' series.
• Back in print physically for the first time in over a decade and available for the first time ever on vinyl
• Osaka Popstar animated music videos have been licensed by Nintendo for the 3DS gaming platform, and as in-house programming for all Hard Rock Cafe chain locations worldwide.

Press Quotes

The Best 'Punk' Album in 25 Years. Osaka Popstar is a high concept project that bashes through generational barriers. They combine roots-punk style music a la the Buzzcocks, The Undertones, the Ramones, and the Misfits, and then incorporate this into Japanese Saturday morning cartoon imagery. It's sort of like the Archies on steroids, or the Fountains of Wayne on amphetamines. Osaka Popstar have perfected a near-miraculous combination of fun and catharsis that leaves you breathless, exhausted, and completely satisfied.

     —Tom Ryan, American Hit Network

You should be warned... The verses are catchier than many a groups choruses, and the choruses are like three-chord crack. And similarly irresistible.

     —Ian Winwood, Classic Rock Magazine

The existence of the Osaka Popstar debut is further proof that God loves The Ramones. The album is a phenomenal ode to power pop and deeply infectious pop punk. Inspired heavily by Japanese Animation (check out the album art work and the two music videos)

     —AMP (American Music Press-monthly)

Full on no frills punk rock... the result is pure fun.

     —Jonathan Falcone, Big Cheese Magazine (UK)

Like a major motion picture release. The billing is high profile for audiophiles and the results are pop punk purity.

     —Thomas Martin, Enigma

Thirty years of punk rock history layered with Japanese anime frosted with the mainstreaming of outsider music = the head-banging genius of Osaka Popstar.

     —Irwin Chusid, WFMU