Confession time, albeit one I’ve probably made before: if a Japanese artist I haven’t heard of hails from outside of Tokyo, I am much more likely to listen to their music. Blame this partially on two years spent living in a part of Japan unknown to most people I meet in Tokyo (shouts out to…
Vancouver-based blog Hearing Gold put together a special compilation titled Vacation Spirit in advance of the summer months. They write that these are “15 exclusive songs documenting the sounds of a blissful summer as personally expressed by their respective artists.” One of the contributors is Japan’s Teen Runnings, a trio that seems pretty well-suited to…
Japan’s indie-pop spring looks to transition into an especially twee summer, as more and more bands inspired by 80’s indie-pop pop up, forcing people like me to enter “jangly” into Thesaurus.com in hopes of not burning out on that adjective. Osaka’s The Paellas add to this vocab challenge, as they are certainly…hold on, “clinking?” How…
Been a long while since we heard from YULO but here they are, back with a new mini-album due on June 1. Rollin’ doesn’t seem all that mini – it comes with eight songs, and the three tracks YULO decided to post online as a preview of the disc aren’t little blasts of rock either….
I had a discussion about death last night with a friend. Well, it wasn’t directly about death, but rather a conversation about other topics – natural disasters, moving, trying to find a new job – that oftentimes carry underlinings of fate, the uncomfortable shadow of inevitable decay. Not the most upbeat material for 3 A.M….