A lot of red flags surround Osaka rock outfit SCANDAL. They wear schoolgirl outfits, for one – I needed to shower away the grimey feeling I had after downloading the album art you see above. More pertinent to the music, SCANDAL are only “rock” in the sense they hold guitars; much like Vampire Weekend’s Columbia…
The fine folks over at SparkPlugged posted this track the other day, and I’ve been slowly drawn to it since. I realize the video for “Universe Universe” features an astronaut (and, uh, named for the universe), so avengers in sci-fi clearly wanted this track to be “spaced out.” As obvious as that is, those B-movie…
Oh, it’s the most wonderful time of the year -the arrival of countless best-of-the-year album lists on the Internet. And in magazines if you are still into that sort of thing. We at Make Believe Melodies aren’t remotely above the rest of the blog-sty and present to you our (OK, mine) 25 favorite albums of…
Tokyo electro-guy Hoshina Anniversary does his remix thing on a track from spazzy chiptuner 99 Letters. “Incratible (Hoshina Anniversary Remix)” scales back the usual madness found in chiptune, favoring instead to transform the song into an 8-bit-braised club track. Hoshina Anniversary stretches it out for more than five minutes, making subtle changes here and there…
The prospect of seeing Yo La Tengo live initially feels less like something to get excited for but more like an indie-rock requirement. New Jersey’s finest rock band has been at it for over 20 years now, so even though I’d never gotten around to seeing them in person I still heard enough live show…