I won’t dwell on the negative, as I have made it my summer project to be slightly more positive. That said and with the official start to the season still a few weeks away, the two bands I’m going to write about in this blurb appeared in a feature about foreign musicians in Japan littered…
I should have grown out of indie pop. Just read Nitsuh Abebe’s description of the genre more typically referred to as “twee,” from his wonderful history of the style – “Happy pop geeks in love with all things pretty, listening to seven-inch singles released on tiny labels, writing songs about crushes, and taking a good…
As the rainy season of Japan approaches and we say goodbye to such things as sunshine and going outside, the thoughts of an individual stuck indoors for the immediate future turns to one hopeful thought – summer music festivals! Japan boasts two giant concertpaloozas, the Fuji Rock Festival and the Summer Sonic Festival, happening around…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFTOYcPgUM&hl=en_US&fs=1&] A quick Google search for “immi” reveals a couple articles and message board threads comparing the trancey singer’s musical production to Daft Punk. Since this is my first exposure to the all lower-caps immi, I can’t really verify if that’s true. If we assume it’s true…the best journalism here folks…then on latest single “Sign…
Sonic Youth and Lightning Bolt buds Afrirampo just released a new album in Japan, most likely loaded with the duo’s usual songcraft consisting of loud guitars, loud drums and some screaming. WE ARE UCHU NO KO came out a couple weeks ago, and alongside its kicking-and-screaming birth was a video for lead track “Miracle Lucky…