Well this was a fun one. I talked to the fine folks of CUZ ME PAIN…including NITES/Jesse Ruins, the Faron Square dudes and AAPS…and the recently-relocated-to-Tokyo Friends for The Japan Times for an article about bedroom artists in Japan. The article comes complete with a mix that CUZ ME PAIN put together just for the…
Bob of Osaka indie-pop outfit Ice Cream Shout writes that “Broken By Inertia,” the newest song from his solo project Cloudy Busey, isn’t all that new. “Actually, it’s old as shit,” he writes before revealing the song’s life began about three years ago and that Ice Cream Shout have busted out the tune on the…
It is the season for big-budget sequel, so why shouldn’t mysterious producer Metrotune create a sequel to last year’s semi-blogged chillwave zone-out “Casio Beach” just in time to go head-to-head with Harry Potter? “Casio Bay” does everything you’d expect the second-time around to do, choosing to stick to the same formula that worked for the…
So who do these guys sound like? Yo La Tengo? Sorta like The Smashing Pumpkins? Kinda like Britpop? “Indie music?” Tough to call, but they come off as definitively 90’s as a flannel-clad dude drinking OK soda. Thing is…that’s OK! Everyone is running back to that Clinton-tastic decade…you read a (bafflingly postively) Yuck review? Or…
Let’s start with the original version of “TEI” – アナ made an enjoyable bit of indie-pop bolstered by a few theatrical touches – see, that gong and those guitars and maybe just that general glow of “bigness” pulsing underneath the whole track. It also has a bit of a leg-moving feel thanks to the drum…