Jazzamatazz: The Canvas

Rock plus jazz equals…what exactly? Sometimes you get great-tastes-together goodness like Sweep The Leg Johnny, other times you get Dave Matthews. Osaka’s The Canvas promote themselves as a retro-leaning unit, jazz meets rock meets “garage,” but the final product sounds solely like the first. And thank goodness for that. Despite some electric guitar lending an…

Å(Angstrom): “Stray Tact” And Album Teaser

Å(Angstrom): “Stray Tact” And Album Teaser

Frustratingly named outfit Å (though various other places also peg them as Angstrom) released their self-titled debut album last week, and you can listen to some samples of every song on the album via a teaser below. Watching this preview clip having not heard anything from this group before most likely leaves one (well, at…

New The Mirraz: “ふぁっきゅー”

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ezo2WwX5C4″] Welp, seems The Mirraz went and made a video perfectly summing up The Mirraz. For the spastic talk-sing rush…in other words, “latest typical single by them”…of “ふぁっきゅー” the group created a whirlwind of a clip moving as quickly and randomly as their music does. In a little over three minutes, we get cardboard middle…

Controlled Karaoke: DOZ Make Me Laugh With One Very Simple Joke

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfidGggo9JE”] Korea ha-ha duo DOZ have a single coming out on Avex of all places, and it’s a comedy track with a very simple premise. The dudes repeat the phrase “arigatou gojyaimasu” (also the title of the song) along with a few “sumimasens” thrown in for good measure and say said words in funny ways….