This week in The Japan Times, I reviewed Miila And The Geeks’ debut album New Age. Read it right here. The only real thing I want to add on top of that review is more praise…New Age is easily the most interesting album released in Japan this year, and a very strong contender for being…
A common complaint thrown at…or, in a lot of cases, a clever way of justifying a legit enjoyment of…J-Pop trio Perfume is all their success comes courtesy of producer Yasutaka Nakata. The line goes that you could stick any three women in the roles held by the current members, and Nakata’s whizz-bang 80’s fetishism/production would…
I went to the Tokyo leg of Summer Sonic this year for The Japan Times, and you can read my report of the festival now. A few stray thoughts that didn’t find a way into the actual article. – I’m told Yelle and Two Door Cinema Club also killed it at the Mountain Stage on…
“Far East Electric Psychedelic” at Osaka’s Fandango made good on its title many times over come the end of the night, but let’s start from the beginning anyway. For about two hours, this looked like it was going to be glam-rock-dress-up night, the first two acts opening up the evening wearing all sorts of neon-green…
Reviewed the perfectly enjoyable Style Band Tokyo compilation, featuring the likes of Hotel Mexico and Lillies And Remains, for The Japan Times today. Read it here. As mentioned, it’s a good collection but it also doesn’t shed a ton of light on what Style Band Tokyo really is about. The best discovery was Pop-Office, a…