[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbAccdZDKik&hl=en_US&fs=1&] SCANDAL’s songs aren’t growers: they either hook you right off the bat or end up unchecked in iTunes. Last year’s singles compilation BEST★SCANDAL highlighted this perfectly, the best numbers (“Koi Moyou,” “SAKURA Goodbye”) firing off from the get-go and pulling listeners far in enough to hit them with the band’s best skill – the…
Merpeoples, whose first mini album comes out next month, have posted a new video for their song “Sherman.” Watch the band prance around in the forest and try on masks below. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkOGoa50q0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzg8W-TptY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Yasutaka Nakata knows how to latch onto the spotlight. He stood out in 2009 as the guy producing the hit electro-disco of Perfume, and only a month into this year he’s dropped a new single with his personal project capsule. “Love Or Lies” may be soundtracking the J-drama Liar Game, but the song offers…
It’s tough to ignore a band named MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS, but I’ve somehow found a way to do so during my tenure in Japan. No excuses now: the newly three-piece have a video for their new single “ひきずるビート,” and the song is an absolute bulldozer. That extra member paid off, because this track…
Turner is a composer out of Kanagawa prefecture dabbling in piano-driven instrumentals. For the most part, this artist’s vignettes carry a very cinematic feel – not in scope, but in a “I could see a little animated rabbit or something walking around a glen while this plays” sort of way. Makes sense, given Turner lists…