Is it too early to start talking about “labels to watch in 2010?” If not, I present the cassette-only (OK, they also plan on putting out 8-tracks) label Scotch Tapes for your consideration. They have a heck-of-a-lotta bands on their roster and recently got mentioned on Gorilla Vs. Bear. For this blog’s purposes, Scotch Tapes…
Nagoya rockers Soulkids will ring in the new decade by dropping a new single on Jan. 20, titled “アネモネ” (translates to “Anemone,” Japanese class paying off). The band has posted a snippet of the track online, and it’s a nice little guitar-centric track. Not much there, but something to get excited by.
I hate the description “Beatle-esque” as much as the next nerd, but sometimes you just have to face the truth: as long as people come together to make music, a handful of folks are bound to draw inspiration primarily from the 1960s. Three-piece Asunarou are one such band where I might as well pick a…
J.P. DuQuette over at Japanzine counts down his top 10 Japanese album of the Aughts in the publications January issue, available online over here. You got your usual suspects popping up – didn’t Vision Creation Newsun come out in Japan in 1999 though? Wikipedia has my back here – but the real draw to DuQuette’s…
The curiously named Inspire:tion advertise themselves as a “rock-shoegaze-ambient” band, and somehow they’ve found a way to legitimately sound like those three things blended together. Yes, the swirling guitars and precious electronic droplets that are a hallmark of “dreamy” music, but Inspire:tion add enough pulse to their tracks so they never get caught gazing at…