I’m only a year late to this, but a discovery is a discovery. Furil make dreamy pop, but not like most “dream pop” outfits. This duo combines swirling minimalist electronics with elements of J-Pop, leading to sugary sweet songs built off tiny keyboards and the occasional club bass. This combination’s so good I have no…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSNdSZJv9Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I realize “Manekineko Duck No Uta” is nothing more than a way for an insurance company to peddle product, but that small fact isn’t going to stop me from writing even more about the left-field hit of Japan for 2009. To keep the song fresh heading into the holiday season, the folks behind this…
To take you into the weekend, here is a new Love And Hates remix. The Pixie Stick snorting duo work their twee-club magic on Desmond & The Tutus’ “Peter.” They take the power pop of the original and absolutely gut it, turning the track into a goofy quasi-rap joint complete with the Love And Hates…
Is describing a band’s music as “like The Strokes” still a no-no? Tokyo’s The New House sound a lot like The Strokes, or at least they possess those garage-rock qualities everyone loved back at the start of the decade. Heck, one of their tracks (“Social Evils and a Potato (Hamon Mix)”) sounds like it might…
When I first arrived in Japan I spent three days in Tokyo at an orientation for my new teaching gig. I attended a workshop about Japanese pop culture in an effort to become hip to life in Japan. Following an introduction to popular Japanese television, we came to the music portion of the lecture. The…