She Talks Silence releases the follow-up EP to last year’s excellent Noise & Novels, Some Small Gifts, tomorrow, but starting right now you can hear a new song. She’s released a video for the track “Vanished Vacances” which you can watch below. STS still has got it…”it” hear being catchy music obscured by the decision…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsZ9lZuFVNg”] “Things We Missed Month” really hasn’t been much of a success so far…bad timing all around!…yet I’m going to evoke the gimmick for this, a song by the band Enie Meenie that dropped back in March off of the group’s third album that I just noticed on a particularly lazy Sunday lacking any good…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ65uphWC8A”] One of the things I try to do on this blog is write slightly longer posts about Japanese music, at least something a little more than “check out this new song/video” which is cool but sometimes you want to expand on those thoughts? You should see this review of the new Capsule album, long…
Japan loves shoegaze and dream pop and whatever other genre names you want to invent, meaning a yearly flood of head-pointed-towards sky swirly guitar music. Well, 2011 now has a frontrunner for “best dream pop song” and Lidery can add that distinction to their resume thanks to “Grandbleu.” J-Rock Explosion wrote about this track first,…
Hmmmmm, without consulting Wikipedia, let me try to remember what happened in 1996. Bob Dole ran for president and Al Gore did the macarena, Space Jam blessed the world with its existence and the Olympics were held in (lol) Atlanta that year, complete with totally terrible mascot. I vividly recall the last memory, because my…