OK, I don’t think this has anything to do with the band. Metrotune’s latest instead probably gets its title from the numerous bird samples loitering about, which lend the three-minute track a slight natural touch. Which is welcome, because the rest of “Yardbirds” touches on the same keyboard-created fantasies last year’s “Casio Beach” did, this…
Man, high school me would be losing it right now. Despite being like eight months away, Summer Sonic has confirmed two acts who will be playing the two-day festival – the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Strokes. Both groups have new albums planned for 2011 so what better way to shill them to Japan…
Despite the heavy leaning on goth imagery, PLASTICZOOMS music has always been distinctively dreamy. Regardless of how much noise they piled onto their music or how much eyeliner they dabbed on…which, hey, I see ya below video…they always, at their core, have sounded like The Cure and not the sonic equivalent of Robert Smith’s hair….
Maia Hirasawa presents an interesting dilemma for Make Believe Melodies. It has nothing to do with her new song “It Doesn’t Stop,” a bright blast of indie-pop loaded with Tin Pan Alley horns. No, rather I’m not even sure if I should be writing about her. Her MySpace identifies her as a “Swedish/Japanese singer” before…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxM7sNVKaRQ”] Clearly not content with the absolutely bananas 2010 they had, Second Royal Records plans to release a new compilation album called Second Royal Vol. 6 on February 9. They’ve posted a teaser trailer of it, which you can listen to above, that hints that this year might be a touch better. The really exciting…