What’s the Japanese for Badass?

I may be the last person on earth to discover the Yoshida Brothers, but Good God what they can do with only 3 strings apiece. They play the traditional Japanese shamisen, but they do things with it, and in the midst of it, way beyond what you’ve heard in the soundtrack to the Kurosawa films you love.

And for something a little more stripped down:

Here is their tour de force, a cover of Radiohead’s National Anthem (iTunes link). I can’t get enough of it.