With just a glance, it seems like Herajika exists to be just another Tokyo band filling in the cracks in a slowly blooming scene. Mental flares went off when I stumbled across the band’s latest EP Test 02 on the Violet And Claire web shop, the digital incarnation of a physical joint associated with Merpeoples,…
Battles’ new album Gloss Drop wormed its way onto the internet earlier this week, and anyone wowed by the Warp artist’s debut LP Mirrored promptly dropped doing whatever they were doing (cooking up a grilled cheese, folding towels, looking for employment) to get their hands on it. Talking about Battles excessively probably shouldn’t happen on…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQhjOI2aBHI”] Watch one of the more buzzed about bands out of Japan , The Suzan, perform their song “Come Come” at New York City’s Japan Society during a benefit concert to raise money for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Also, donate to Japan Society!
“Thank You” stands in sharp contrast to the overwrought J-Ballads constantly parachuting into the Japanese mainstream music consciousness. Those songs, packed with string sections and pixie-dusted sections to the point where Walt Disney would choke on all the pure sugar, try to sound “emotional” the same way Will Smith tried to act “poor” in The…
Ambitious move or a bit cocky? Those are the only two options I’m going to accept as to why tech-rock trio Nuxx went and made remixes for songs they haven’t even released officially yet. The group has been relatively quiet since releasing last year’s triumphant debut Sound Ache, only offering up two samples of new…