We break a little bit from our year-end coverage for this month’s MAP, which features one of our favorite songs of the year – HNC’s “I Will Make You Sad.” Listen to it and a bunch of other great music from around the world below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs,…
Between the woozy pop of Fancy Books and the dusk-shrouded rock of The Paellas, Tokyo’s Dead Funny Records had a pretty strong 2012. Add Jappers to that diverse-sounding list – this outfit’s Lately EP plays around with a more classic rock/pop sound, the tracks within sounding more clear than either the seasick Fancy Books or…
Timothy Work covers a lot of ground in just four songs on their self-titled debut EP that dropped back in the summer. Which actually makes it surprisingly easy to overlook – 2012 saw all sorts of acts treating genre cornerstones as something meant to be thrown around, acts like Moscow Club touching on fragile indie-pop…
still sound isn’t shy about his influences – the name gives away his interest in Toro Y Moi before you even read the SoundCloud bio that calls Chaz Bundick his “bro.” It’s the project of a 17-year-old high-school student named James who lives in Naha on Okinawa – “well, like an hour north” he tells…
Starting today, Make Believe Melodies will join pretty much every other music website and blog in wrapping up 2012. It has been a fantastic year for Japanese music – the past 12 months have seen a boom in quality indie-pop music, continued experimentation within the world of electronic music and a bunch of quality J-Pop…