John Cafiero is an American punk rock musician and filmmaker. He is best known as the frontman for the punk supergroup

Osaka Popstar Osaka Popstar is a punk rock supergroup formed in 2006 by New Yorker John Cafiero. In 2006, Cafiero teamed up with several well known punk rock artists to create the anime based punk group, Osaka Popstar. They released their debut album/DVD on ...

, whose debut album was released the summer 2006. The full album lineup toured the UK in September 2006, followed by a tour of the United States and Canada with the legendary punk band The Misfits in Fiend Fest '06.

Biography

Cafiero directed and co-produced (with wife Suzanne Cafiero) the music videos of the

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' songs "American Psycho" and "

Dig Up Her Bones "Dig Up Her Bones" is the seventh single by the punk rock band the Misfits. It was the first single released by the re-formed lineup of the band, after the original incarnation broke up in 1983. It was the only single released from their 1997 a ...

", which appeared on MTV's '' 120 Minutes'' and

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cable TV in the United States, and on

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and the

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channel in Japan in late 1997. They were screened at the Euro-Underground Film Festival and

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in late 1998, garnering a "Best of Fest" award for the former and a

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nomination. For his direct-to-video directorial debut, Cafiero directed and co-produced (again with wife) ''

Big Money Hustlas ''Big Money Hustlas'' is a 2000 American comedy film directed by John Cafiero as his feature film debut. The film, a homage to exploitation films of the 1970s, focuses on a streetwise San Francisco detective who tries to take down a New York City c ...

'' for the Insane Clown Posse and appeared in front of the camera as "The Director" alongside the Misfits as themselves. The film was released in 2000 and topped the '' Billboard'' video sales charts for several weeks. Over the course of nine months in 2003–2004, he directed a documentary about the punk band Ramones, entitled '' Ramones: Raw''. In 1998, Cafiero wrote and sang (as guest vocalist) the song " I Wanna Be a NY Ranger" with the Misfits. In a ''

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'' article on the song, he names the Ramones as his childhood heroes and the

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as a defining New York City team.

References

External links

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Osaka Popstar Official Site

Big Money Hustlas: The Official Movie Website

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