Japanese indie legends Bloodthirsty Butcher’s take things one frame at a time in the video for “OCEAN,” the first single from there (to this point unknown to me) new album out next week (!). Who says Tuesday has no good surprises? The video focuses on one doll taking his craft-store-and-bed-ridden buddy out on a wild…
Well, sort of. Osaka band Anyo’s music leans more to pure post-punk than shoegaze, but a few dreamier elements work there way into the group’s sound, including three new tracks (or rather clips of new tracks) recently uploaded to the Web hyping up an EP due in April. Recently posted highlight “水鏡” rushes right out…
Days after announcing a new album slated for release March 10, Osaka trio Wednesday have posted the first song from that album onto MySpace. “? Love” finds the band showing off their brand of throwback rock, with a sea of “doo doos” and a rhythm ripped straight out of an old-school prom fast dance. It’s…
Check the past few posts on this blog. Notice any similar threads running through them all? It’s all sorta…light stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I love shoegaze and twee-pop as the next sissy. I just need something with a little more kick every once in a while. So today, here’s the polar opposite of indie-pop…hardcore….
Let me give you the short story about how I stumbled across this one – I decided “hey, why don’t I revisit old posts and see how some of the bands I’ve written about before are doing?” I land on a page including this post where I devoted a whole paragraph to indie-pop outfit Balloon…