The funny part about Metrotune’s brush with blog hype this past year is how they got nabbed all that attention behind the strength of their most “chillwave” song but carry way more depth than just another bedroom start-up. The latest batch of tunes presented to the world by the mysterious project show off just how…
Looking for a good last minute gift for that loved one who happens to love minimalist Japanese music? Or maybe you just want to put a smile on your favorite Japan-based music blogger’s face? Either way, bedtime-pop duo Lullatone have just the solution for you. For ten dollars, they’ll send whoever you want a personalized…
Any day now, you can expect a nice countdown of my favorite Japanese songs of 2010. Hopefully. Until then, though, let’s look at a few tracks that didn’t make the cut. This isn’t an honorable mentions deal…sorry, that could take all day if we have to tally up runner-ups…but rather five songs I heard in…
A quick history lesson: their once existed a stellar Japanese rock band called (awesomely) Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her. They made some great music and, real talk, were one of the first Japanese bands to really hit me and thus were integral in you reading this sentence right now. That group broke up a…
Few Japanese bands ever manage to grab the Western media’s attention, so when one comes along and does just that they best milk it. Current attention-nabbers The Suzan signed to Fool’s Gold and released a pretty positively reviewed album, so now they try to prolong their stay in the spotlight a little longer by releasing…