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Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.
Man, these guys just pump out songs. “Ghost Dance” is the latest bit of indie-rockin’ goodness courtesy of Moscow Club, this track moving away from the tropical shores of other recent releases and instead embracing meat-and-potatoes guitar rock with a good heaping of feedback also mixed in for good measure. I’m running out of ways…
For a second there, it looked like Lucky Kilimanjaro was going to become the new Give Me Wallets. That outfit got some buzz with retro-tinged electro-pop material, and quickly found a way in to writing J-pop songs for artists like Yuki. A solid career choice and one resulting in good pop, but it also meant…
The other day we posted a Cloudy Busey track that came out in late December, a dance song called “Don’t Know Why You Love Me.” Bob, who fronts Ice Cream Shout and counts Cloudy Busey as his personal project, tweeted us afterwards noting that “it was a dry run.” Now we know what it was…
It’s strange connecting dots after the fact. A few years back, D∀NGER D∀NGER was just an electro-pop outfit with one solid EP behind their syntax-shattering name. They inspired more Twitter conversations about punctuation than anything else, though that’s more the fault of writers than anything else. Three years later and Jay-Z is now JAY-Z, and…
Ya know what this here blog has been missing recently? Twee music. Happy, sappy twee music to make the coming Spring that much more sweet. Enter indie-poptastic duo Serani Poji. They make hoppy music begging to be used as the soundtrack to woodland creatures selling insurance. The group plans on releasing a new album at…
As evidenced by all the twee music I celebrate on this blog, I’m not really a punk. I like plenty of “punk” music, but the kids wearing torn jeans always intimidated me in junior high. Which might be why the definition of “punk” has always seemed a bit elusive to me. Though I think a…