Ever wanted to hear the pained cries of Kurt Cobain…set to some sweet electro beats? Today’s your lucky day, courtesy of Japanese dance music maker Re-kid, who has replaced the ingrained-in-pop-culture guitars of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” with a way-energetic electronic workout. Pure novelty? You bet. A bit jarring? Yep. Worth the 4:49 out of…
One important fact must be addressed when talking about Perfume, whether in discussion of the trio’s music, the group’s commercial ventures or Ayaka Nishiwaki’s hair – every Perfume song generally sounds the same. The pop-outfit aren’t artistically bankrupt so much as they have stuck to a winning template…wall-to-wall electro-sweetness, digitized vocals and an insanely good…
“How many of you saw saw us in Osaka in the ’90s?” Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich asked between songs during the group’s April 10th show at Zepp Osaka. He was greeted with a decent-sized wave of cheers. I, along with the majority of the crowd, did not “woo.” Though I’m hesitant to make blanket statements about…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAMMiyn1qM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] In which The Telephones decide to become the Japanese Killers, and not just because lead singer Akira Ishige makes some dramatic pointing motions a la loveable bag-o-wind Brandon Flowers. I’m not talking about the whole “are we human, or are we dancer” debacle, I mean the version that managed to pump out awesome rock…
Baroque – Waster Your Time EP In the post-Justice world we live in, it’s tempting to file Baroque’s debut EP away with every other “electro-house” act that were bumper-to-bumper on Hype Machine two years ago. All the trademarks are here – window-shaking bass, cranked-up volume, a general crunchiness to the music that’s vaguely off-putting but…