Seems appropriate that one of the tag’s for “New Birth” is “Okinawa.” Ignoring such holiday downers as U.S. Air Force bases and independence movements, the island prefecture conjures up images of beaches with swimming-pool-clear water and jungles full of chilled out toucans (note: I have no idea if toucans exist in Okinawa). Soar’s (a.k.a. Shota…
= O Various folks on my Twitter feed seem to be saying The Village People will be playing this year’s Summer Sonic festival. I knew this was the summer of reunions, but this might just be a tad ridiculous. [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO43p2Wqc08″] R.I.P. Randy Savage. So yeah…I guess snap up those tickets as quickly as you can?…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CoAax1G5mo”] Last night, lo-fi beach party dude Friends tweeted about a “shelved song that will never be released.” Except maybe on YouTube, as the canned track in questions can be heard above. “Brilliant” isn’t a huge change for the Friends project – still plenty of fuzz, still plenty of submerged vocals underneath said fuzz –…
Here’s a group rarely written about on this blog that deserves way more attention (and, rightfully, has gotten it from places far more legitimate than here). YMCK make chiptune music, but instead of using 8-bit noises as a way to spazz out or as a crutch for nostalgia, they make unabashed J-Pop out of old…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2E3lvgZ7WA”] Heads up – this blog might be converted into a site devoted to avant Hungarian jazz sometime in the coming week just to throw you all off my trail. Background – Neaux recently tweeted about the band LISTEN UP’s new single, saying it sounds like the sort of indie J-Pop I’d be into. And…he’s…