Electro-rock group Tokyo Pinsalocks with the out-of-nowhere news of the week! They plan on releasing a new album titled Kurukuru To Guruguru this week, on October 6, and to wet appetites for the new full-length they’ve posted three song previews on MySpace. Early signs point to this album being killer – the title track boasts…
Ask any foreigner in Japan who operates a blog where he/she pretends to be a junior Japan sociologist (I do this!) about humor in Japan. I’m willing to wager a large chunk of them will note how slapstick and situational comedy in this country is opposed to the place they hail from where, for the…
Sun-soaked producer Pleasure stopped by the comments section yesterday to let us all know he’s posted a new track to his MySpace. And it’s a doozy. Clocking in at nearly 10 minutes, “Soranowa” features the same summer-night elements that have come to make up his style, but this track seems more urgent than his previous…
The great thing about a band making a splash on the scene…even one as unforgiving as the land of indie-music blogs…is they often help to get other bands from their area a little attention as well. Ice Cream Shout’s recent brush with web-fame hopefully means we might see a few other groups out of “Kansai,…
Much to my dismay, Nagoya-based rockers Motor City Ghosts don’t actually hail from the Motor City. They are actually a Canadian and three British dudes. For some reasons I pictured them as hailing from Michigan and probably being bummed about the Lion’s weak start. I doubt it now. What we do know about the band…