Why not start the new week…the last full one of June, yikes!…with some driving indie-pop? Miles Apart Records has a knack for locating really talented groups creating fuzzy numbers featuring lots of distortion but sweetly sung hooks. Tokyo’s Luby Sparks are the latest to debut via the label, with the driving “Pop. 1979,” which features…
Well, this is exciting — Kyoto’s Native Rapper, who has been making some of the best genre-hopping music out of Japan in recent memory, has teamed up with Trekkie Trax, and will release an EP through them next week. We could have just waited for Mass Maker to hit the download zone, but “Track Maker”…
The key is escape. Osaka indie-pop outfit Pictured Resort probably wouldn’t object to getting a little bit of that “city pop revival” love, what with a debut album called All Vacation Long out in August. Yet the main vibe of the bands — fairly or not — being lumped in that revival is of being…
Do you ever find yourself sitting in a coffee shop, just staring out the window at the neighborhood in front of you, kind of dazing off and ignoring all the stuff you really should be dealing with? Tokyo trio Baby Fire’s “Water” is an optimal soundtrack for just this, as it is an indie-pop number…
Feels like every month is worth reminding the world that Kyoto’s Homecomings made one of the year’s better indie-pop albums, and thankfully they seem to be releasing music videos for songs off of Sale Of Broken Dreams at a constant enough rate to do just that. “Perfect Sounds Forever” is the latest to get the…