Physical copies of Wednesday’s debut full-length Start The Start come packaged with a pair of classic 3-D glasses. Meant to enhance the anaglyph video for single “? Love,” the red-blue shades also offer an easy critical lead-in to discussing the music. I can see the first draft now – talk a little about how 3-D…
Being a Deerhoof fan requires a lot of effort. I don’t mean in terms of appreciating the actual music – though jarring at first, the Bay Area group’s rough-meets-cute dissection and subsequent rebuilding of rock stands as some of the most spellbinding sounds of the Oughts – but rather all the baggage that comes with…
The differences between Yasutaka Nakata’s Capsule project and his role producing disco robo-divas Perfume aren’t much. Both outfits pump out electro-fried pop songs along with the occasional “club friendly” number. Nakata mostly stays behind the boards for both bands, letting female vocalists take the lead while he messes with the results. Hell, listen closely enough…
This one has been floating around since the start of February, but I just got around to listening to it. Osaka rockers Sugar ‘N’ Spice debuted a new song live recently, called “Goldenblack.” It finds the band really driving home there “rock and roll” mindset, recalling Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way” with it’s main guitar line….
Amongst the bright neon lights and garish mechanized crabs of Osaka’s Dotonobori district looms Kaela Kimura. The J-Pop star leaps behind a candy shell of colors appropriate for the city’s top tourist destination, part of her black shirt digitized as if to hide something. No ad save for the famous Glico Man comes close to…