[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm7do6KPaok”] Second Royal records out of Kyoto seem to be having a busy week, what with two new releases out now. The first seems a bit…uhhh unnecessary. It’s a compilation album, and usually Second Royal kills it with these things, the recent state-of-the-label releases sharing exciting new tunes from old staples and new signings. The…
L.A.H, the self-titled debut album from Tokyo twee-crunk duo Love And Hates, comes out in early December, but you can hear four tracks from HNC and Moe’s (Miila And The Geeks) rappy project now. The concept behind Love And Hates might seem offsetting at first – rap music done by two Japanese women fond of…
Two new articles in The Japan Times worth reading – first, I reviewed Sapphire Slows’ debut EP True Breath. It’s pretty good! Read that one here. And on the left side of the page, I wrote about INNIT, Kansai’s fledgling electronic event that is bringing together so many great-sounding acts. I talked to a bunch…
Note: Pure Filler Image That Relates In No Way To This Post As fun as it is to mock Japanese bands who thought a super-stupid sounding name riddled with random capitalization would be a good idea, I admit that those groups are at least easy to Google for. The group PARADISE…not so much. Even adding…
Let’s keep this short as I’m sleepy and you can expect nearly 2000 words on this blog tomorrow – I’ve been digging Boyfriend Material’s “Taiyō No Kisetsu” for a little bit, so I’m going to post the SoundCloud player for it below. Listen and enjoy. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/23736855″] Simple enough, yeah?