Osaka’s Twinkle Twinkles have finally wised up to the Internet game. After spending a long stretch of time operating with just a MySpace page (note to all Japanese bands – GET OFF MYSPACE IT IS DEAD), the trio recently got in on SoundCloud and have posted three of their energetic gushes of twee rock to…
Here’s a new slice of lo-fi pop (listen to that tape hiss!) from Super VHS. “Remember The Night” inspires me to bust out one of the most dreaded words in music writing recently – nostalgic. The bedroom-recording techniques, the fact the vocals sort of ripple underneath the music and that the whole song reminds me…
Children singing is, in and of itself, isn’t a scary occurrence. It can actually be cute or touching or, in the case of The Langley Schools Project, sorta beautiful. Yet Idiot Pop has a knack for turning happy noises into something creepy, as evidenced on last year’s Requiem For A Dream-featuring video for the Euro…
I’ve been mentioning it on Twitter and Tumblr, but might as well get it here too…this week, I’ve been given the digital keys to One Week, One Band, an excellent music blog where writers devote one week to writing about one specific band or artist. I’m going where no other contributor has gone yet –…
Kyoto whizz-kid Madegg has a few new developments to talk about tonight. His SoundCloud page reveals his first proper album will be “coming this spring,” which is pretty exciting, especially because it will come out on Flau Records, home to Neon Cloud and Cokiyu. It also appears the young producer has developed a visual trend…