[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oETuy1KsJMM&hl=en_US&fs=1&] It takes some set of balls to name your band after Buddy Holly’s backing group, so The Crickets score points for daring from the get-go. The five-piece sounds very little like Mr. Holly’s bros though. SparkPlugged and Neaux (side tangent: that pairings the J-music blog equivalent of Nash-To-Stoudemire, totally dope) correctly pegged the sound…
Electronic music rarely sounds lonely – all the bright blasts and bumping beats conjure images of a crowded club, not an empty house. Even one of the chilliest and most solitary electro-leaning albums of recent memory – The Knife’s Silent Shout – featured the dancefloor slayer “We Share Our Mother’s Heart.” Even when artists try…
Tokyo duo CRYV warrant a blog post for one factoid alone…the band consists of a set of twins. I can’t think of many other bands with such a lineup, so this seems pretty “man bites dog” worthy to me. Thankfully, it turns out musical talent runs in the genes because CRYV’s take on electronic indie-pop…
The months just keep passing and the summer draws even closer. Let’s check in with Japan’s premier summer festivals to see what’s up. – The big new update on the Summer Sonic front would be reunited indie-gods Pavement getting a slot. They already dazzled Tokyo and (especially) Osaka once before, so if you missed out…
This day was bound to happen…I present to you the first Japanese band worthy of being deemed “chillwave.” Hotel Mexico (claiming to be from “Mexico, Japan” which I would just love to visit) take their cues from glo-fi godfather Ariel Pink, their music recalling some long-lost decade via less-than-ideal recording conditions. Whereas Mr. Pink dolls…