Nobuki Akiyama stays busy. The lead singer of Ykiki Beat can expect a busy summer, as that project’s debut album When The World Is Wide drops this July. Maybe anticipating a packed season, his other band DYGL shared their EP #1 digitally this week. It is technically their first cassette release, but can be purchased…
Cuushe kept busy over the last year and change, appearing on other people’s songs and penning magazine columns (and keeping up with her Neon Cloud side project). But now she’s preparing her latest solo effort, this April’s Night Lines EP via her main label Flau and Cascine, which she just signed to and is a…
The one-album-or-single-a-month trick is such a novelty that when it works, it’s pretty darn impressive. Remember Bishop Allen? Nope? Yeah, there is a reason for that. It’s easy to let the hook overtake quality, so what’s impressive about Japanese producer Dubb Parade’s 2014, where he has been releasing an album every month, is how thorough…
I’m pretty sure when I first encountered the music of Foodman, he was tagged primarily as a juke artist. He’s still done plenty of fine work in that scene, yet he’s been far from cemented in it. He’s branched out in all sorts of knotty ways – best captured on his albums released last year,…
It seems dumb on a lot of levels to focus so much on youth when talking about a band called YOUTHS, especially when one has no idea how old any of the people in the group. Yet (here’s that word again) youthful energy flows through the two songs they’ve uploaded to the Internet. “Vomit,” in…