Rhye are, weirdly, one of those inescapable outfits in Japan. I’ve heard songs by the group in supermarkets and in McDonald’s, and their stark “Open” was on rotation at Starbucks Japan last month (where do you think half these posts get written?). I’d like to think that Osaka house producer Soleil Soleil similarly found himself…
The news hook is…fuzzy rock duo Puffyshoes have a new video for their sweet song “Backstage Pass,” from 2011’s Finally The Weekend. The two members of the band look into cameras, whatever. The real reason we are writing this is because 1. Puffyshoes, who disbanded a couple years back, are back together, which is great,…
As far as fringe genres go, “poemcore” feels like it has stronger legs than a lot of the ideas that congeal into trend pieces. That’s even if it can be considered a style all of its own, though — “poemcore” is music where the vocals are spoken, like a poem, and that seems to be…
This month in the Music Alliance Pact, we spotlight young producer Eriqu, who has been making some really exciting electronic music out of Tokyo the last few months. Listen to him, and many more, below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or…
I feel like there are two ways to approach this album, a collaborative effort between the hypnotic singer-songwriter may.e and Oka: 1. The more I listen to may.e’s music, the more I become convinced she’s my favorite artist in Japan at the moment. Nobody else in the country’s music scene does so much with so…