This one just went up, so I’ll post it right before I go to bed. CUZ ME PAIN group Faron Square just posted a new song called “Echoes Of Love.” Listen to it below.
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EDM, contrary to what you might have read, isn’t dead. Maybe it is slowing down in North America or Europe, but it is just hitting its stride in Asia, where festivals continue to do brisk business and K-pop juggernaut SM recently launched an EDM label. In Japan, the style still does well, though one area…
The only chillwavers in Japan will release a new album soon, maybe this Friday (the 16th). That’s when they hold a release party for His Jewelled Letter Box in Kyoto so…gotta come out around then. For now, listen to the sample video below. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRhOY6uv3Hw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=ja_JP&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Doesn’t “G.I.R.L.” sound like a lost Ariel Pink track? And why…
So looks like the big trend in Japanese-indie music this week is Justin Bieber. First, Osaka’s Cloudy Busey described his new song as something the Canadian pop star could sing, and now Tokyo outfit Give Me Wallets have covered Bieber’s song “Boyfriend,” which you can listen to below. Give Me Wallets replace the Justin-Timberlake-evoking minimalism…
People always share the goofy, potentially fabricated dreams they had the night before, the ones where they hook-up with a Harry Potter character or team up with friends to fend off zombies using water balloons. These fantasies might wander off into bizarre directions (“we were flying World War I bi-planes with our dorm president…and then…
Well, not “new” as the above video has been kicking around since January, but I missed it so…new to these parts! Besides the trippy onslaught of colors in the video, the real headline of Osaka chiptuner 9 Letter’s “La Dance” is his decision to mix up his approach to 8-bit spazzin’ out. His trademark –…
Change doesn’t have to be drastic to be effective. Maison Book Girl’s “Narrow Story” changes the junior-high-band-room sound up ever so slightly, but manages enough to feel like a total pivot into a new direction. But it really isn’t — Maison Book Girl lean in on a mix of xylophone notes, tag-team vocals and all-together-now…