Since one can only ride the English teaching gravy train for so long…and this blog isn’t making me rich though it’s fun to write ya’ll!…I’ve started contributing to other publications about Japanese music. This week, I wrote up a live preview of Osaka oddball Oorutaichi for The Japan Times. Go here and read it. Instead…
This one gets a little confusing. Zana Caroline and featured guest Kaki are actually the same person. A visit to her blog…which boasts the same run-together name as this song…reveals that Kaki is in her words “my alter ego that I created one year ago when I came back from Japan and I was unemployed…
Heh heh…69. With that out of the way, looks like Hotel Mexico have gotten pretty comfy with Diesel. This is the second song by Kyoto’s premier chillwavers to appear on Diesel’s “Diesel:U:Music:” after the Ariel Pinked out “Dear Les Friends.” Like that song, it’s pretty easy to play glo-fi connect the dots though “We Are…
The recent slide into insignificance suffered by MySpace caused a joyful yelp from the Internet masses, happy to see retina-frying page design and “Tom” become things of the past. Though the death of a million sparkle-encrusted banners does improve the overall quality of the Internet ever so slightly, MySpace’s sink into irrelevance does signal a…
Surprise surprise, some people get turned off by the name Three-Weeks-Old Lovesick Puppy. Not that this is shocking in any way – it is the sort of moniker bound to put off a lot of people. Factor in the whole “twee” sound…and the fact people seem more repulsed by the idea of “twee” than actual…