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Tokyo Police Club performs live from SXSW

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by Bill DeVille and Tokyo Police Club

March 15, 2008

David Monks of Tokyo Police Club
David Monks of Tokyo Police Club live from SXSW
Minnesota Public Radio / Ali Lozoff

Tokyo Police Club is a group of four friends from Newmarket Ontario who picked up instruments and formed a band in their senior year of high school. Their debut EP A Lesson In Crime was written up everywhere from indie blogs to Rolling Stone who gushed it had, "seven first-rate mod-punk party starters." Elephant Shell, the debut full-length, is due at the end of April.

Songs performed: "Nature of the Experiment," "Tessellate," "Graves," and "In a Cave."

Tokyo Police Club
Tokyo Police Club
Photo courtesty the band