When Francis Xavier turned into a penguin

"Francis Xavier was a Navarrese was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus.[...]. He also was the first Christian missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and other areas".

A painting of Saint Francis Xavier, 
held in the Kobe City Museum

Couldn't get too much information as all the websites are in Japanese. But seems that someone added 2 dots to Francisco Javier's beard and turned it upside down. 

And a fabolous piece of artwork came out.

Extracted from Twitter

A Lux Interior Christmas Tape Compilation

Copy and paste from WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban!

"Super giant thanks to Kristian Hoffman for sharing this on his Facebook Page. It's a picture of a tape Lux made with some amazing Christmas Music. A song or two from the Black Christmas tape, but much more swell tunes to sink your teeth in to.  Even an atheist would love it...".

An excellent 50s Christmas songs compilation by Lux Interior himself. He had such a good taste!

Gene Vincent singt im Star-Club

Reproduction of an original Star Club publicity card.

Bought it in Harajuku Jack's in Tokyo.

7" Thee Braindrops - Lorraine (Family Spree Recordings, 2018)

Ok. I'll copy and translate from Spanish: 

"Thee Braindrops are a Spanish based garage-rock and roll band formed in 2017. They are the Japanese frontman Bunny Shima (voice and percussion), Big Pablo (bass and chorus), Carlos (guitar) and Pablo (drums).

They play energetic and direct tunes influenced by 1960s, the most garage songs of The Woggles and de rawness of Billy Childish throughout the darkest and fuzz loaded side of The Fuzztones".

And I would add: Thee Braindrops play pure primitive garage-punk!!! This is their debut EP. Four songs that make me think about garage revival bands from 1980s. 

They are fans of Fuzztones ("Braindrops" was the title of an album recorded by this band!) also The Morlocks and The Masonics as we can hear on their shows. 

This is just an idea of what you hear in this EP. Garage rockers from around the world will love it!

Sexy and colorful comic-art cover by Mik Baro.

Tadanori Yokoo

Graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter.

One of Japan’s most well-known artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints combined photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e(woodblock prints) and pop art’s flat colours and overtly sexual content. [...].His work became influenced by mysticism following his trip to India in the 1970s, resulting in posters with eclectic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground psychedelic magazines of the time.* 

*Copied and  pasted from Tate website.