In most situations, if I missed a new song from a band by two months I’d probably just continue to ignore it and hope nobody cared. With NOKIES! “Let Your Band Sing,” though, I’m willing to step out and say “boy I’m not good at locating stuff” because it’s an interesting change-up from the spastic…
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/23798661 w=400&h=320] Faron Square – Wasted Words from FARONSQUARE on Vimeo. Hey, why let Jesse Ruins hog all the spotlight? Labelmate Faron Square released a new video for the song “Wasted Words,” from his forthcoming Willys Anthology EP. Watch it above.
The past few months have already seen the CUZ ME PAIN project Jesse Ruins go from a mysterious little thing lurking in the shadows to an artist responsible for one of the better halves of a cassette tape this year to a blog darling. “Sofija” is the latest in a string of great releases from…
Brace for boring “making of the blog post” details – I was doing my usual browsing around Twitter, staring at Tweet after Tweet composed in Kanji I couldn’t recognize unless I turned on my special Firefox application for translation. I noticed an update from Osaka tech-rock trio Nuxx mentioning a “new album” and I immediately…
Call this coffee house music, except it tries to break your focus from your MacBook Pro. Osaka’s Maokoto Murakami makes an extremely minimal type of dance music, the sort of thing not blasting out of any club I’ve ever walked by in the city. This stuff probably plays better on Sunday morning anyway, Murakami making…