[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJ0zuXIkwo”] Two thoughts: 1. I’m shocked how few “Empire State Of Mind” parody/reworks there are. If LMFAO can release like a bazillion different versions of “I’m In Miami Bitch” simply by replacing “Miami” with whatever city they think can move iTunes units, you’d think more YouTube “superstars” would try to put on for their city…
Mukai Shutoku’s (NUMBER GIRL, Zazen Boys) latest project, Kimonos, will drop their self-titled debut album into stores on November 17. The album…that’s the purdy artwork up top…features Greg Saunier from Deerhoof on drums for one track and some help from other Zazen Boys on other numbers. You can see the full tracklist for the duo’s…
Though I originally scoffed at the idea…”hey, a blog for the scraps of music Pitchfork doesn’t want!”…I’ve got to admit Altered Zones has become one of the better mainstream-indie blogs (is that possible?) at covering interesting music coming out of Japan. They…and by they, I really mean the great blogs they’ve got feeding them content…devoted…
Here’s where Baroque really flexes his production muscle. When he remixes a song by someone like 80kidz, the results often sound good but also just like a rougher version of the original. Yet when the dude tackles a song belonging to a style vastly different than his own – the subsequent reworking absolutely kills. He…
Plenty of music sounds “chilled out” but not nearly as much stuff comes off as actually relaxed enough to just float away. Osaka’s Pechica, though, manage to hit on this exact feeling with the dreamy downcurrent stream of a song “Yes.” The group works very little into the song’s opening moment, just some bass, drums…