Toshi Yano

Toshi Yano is an American rock musician who plays bass and keyboard. He was a founding member of the Washington, D.C., hardcore band Battery, the New York hardcore band Violent Bullshit, and Kapow!, a Brooklyn-based band. Yano also worked as a recording and mixing engineer.

Kapow! was an eight-piece band, fronted by Yano, which included Tris McCall on keyboards and The Negatones frontmen Jay and Justin Braun. In 2005, the New York Times wrote that Kapow! was "old-fashioned, but frequently irresistible," featuring the "vocal harmonies and garage-rock riffs" characteristic of late-1960s pop music. They released a three-song demo recording, which included "In regard to the Children," "Girl," and "Make You Mine." Kapow! remained active into 2008.

Yano was a touring member of The Fiery Furnaces from 2003 to 2005, playing bass and keyboards on world tours with the band. During that period, Yano temporarily joined Franz Ferdinand on tour when bassist Bob Hardy was hospitalized.{{cite news | date = 29 November 2004 | title = Franz play on in Japan | url = https://www.nme.com/news/music/franz-ferdinand-327-1360137 | work = NME | access-date = 13 December 2023}}

Yano is currently Director of Horticulture at Wethersfield Estate and Gardens.{{Cite web |last=Jutzi |first=Jessica |title=Toshi Yano |url=https://www.publicgardens.org/our-people/our-leadership/toshi-yano/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=APGA |language=en-US}}

References

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{{ cite web |title=Kapow! – Audio |year=2008

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{{cite web |title=Kapow! – Calendar |year=2008

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{{cite web |title=Kapow! – Biography

|url=http://www.sonicbids.com/band/kapow/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502201418/http://www.sonicbids.com/band/kapow/ |archivedate=2014-05-02 }}

{{cite web | first=Matthew |last=Perpetua |title=We Hardly Saw A Spark |work=Fluxblog |date=November 4, 2005 |url=http://www.fluxblog.org/2005/11/987 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622234047/http://www.fluxblog.org/2005/11/987 |archivedate=2010-06-22 }}

{{cite news |title=Punk, Funk and Singalongs, Dwelling on Life in Clubland |first=Jon |last=Pareles |date=November 18, 2005 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/music/18arct.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502200409/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/music/18arct.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0 |archive-date=2014-05-02 }}

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External links

[http://www.discogs.com/artist/1017279-Toshi-Yano Toshi Yano] at Discogs
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090819061802/http://www.myspace.com/kapowmusic Kapow!] official site on MySpace (archived 2009)

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Living people

Category:American bass guitarists

Category:American musicians of Japanese descent

Category:Battery (hardcore punk band) members