White Scooper

Presenting Good On The Dancefloor’s star player, mostly because this band comes close to fulfilling the collective’s name. White Scooper join in the enjoyable trend of “bands making ’80s sounding music but not in a cheap nostalgic way” (led by Cut Copy, and featuring acts like Awesome New Republic and Delorean), pumping out new wave…

Controlled Karaoke: Slash’s Japan-Only Song With B’z Lead Singer

Koshi Inaba sings lead vocals in popular Japanese rock band B’z. Slash once played lead guitar in Guns ‘N’ Roses and has since become one of the most inessential people in music today. Slash has a new album coming out soon (the perfect stocking stuffer for your friend who lined up outside of Best Buy…

80kidz Remix Fight Like Apes: “Lend Me Your Face”

Well here’s a complete curveball – 80kidz’s latest remix, of Fight Like Apes I-will-beat-the-shit-out-of-you “Lend Me Your Face,” forgoes the trio’s usual dancefloor-approved production for…a John Waters-worthy emotional rocker. The track eventually builds up to a club dance beat, but for most of it’s four-minute-plus duration sticks to a slower moving guitar-centric sound reminiscent of…

AAPS

Our look at the Good On The Dancefloor collective marches on today with the slipperiest in regards to genre labeling, AAPS. The only constant running through the three tracks up on their MySpace is “noisy.” “To Pieces” takes a modern rock guitar riff and submerges it in distortion to give it a much more sinister…

Bump Of Chicken Release New Single: “R.I.P./Merry Christmas”

J-Rock stars Bump Of Chicken haven’t released a new single in two years, practically an eternity in the J-Music business. I’ve never listened to this rock group before, but the new single in question, “R.I.P./Merry Christmas,” popped up on the Internet a few days ago. This isn’t just another new release…this is the first new…