Nearly every review or article written about The Corin Tucker Band and their debut album 1,000 Years mentions how this sounds nothing like Sleater-Kinney. Even the friend I met at Osaka’s Sunsui on November 29 to see the former S-K singer’s solo venture noted just how un S-K her new material could get. It’s an…
December arrives, bringing with it the most truly joyous time of the year…the month where every music critic/blogger labors over their “Year End List” before sharing it with a mostly indifferent world. Of course, this blog isn’t remotely above that…we (by which I mean “just me”) is currently creating such lists with as much care…
80kidz have issues with timing. If the one secret to obtaining blog hype is making sure your artistic outfit exists at just the right moment, the Tokyo duo managed to just miss out on being way bigger than they ended up. Justice exploded in 2007, grabbing mad popularity and critical praise which led to an…
In this infrequent feature, I’ll write about older Japanese albums I’ve come across whether through finding them lodged underneath my bed, on sale for 100 Yen at a local swap meet or discarded in the forest . Today we look at Masaki Ueda’s Hold You Tonight A glance at Masaki Ueda’s official discography reveals him…
Shugo Tokumaru’s Port Entropy recently came out in America and Europe, which means Western media who give him any notice will be reviewing his fifth LP in the coming days/weeks. Pitchfork struck first, with writer Jayson Greene kinda slamming Shugo with a 6.2, as he dropped lines like “prolonged exposure to Tokumaru’s flights of fancy…