Tokyo’s PLASTICZOOMS merge shoegaze pop with industrial rock with results very reminiscent of the Jesus and Mary Chain, or contemporaries The Horrors and A Place To Bury Strangers. The band’s songs are rock numbers buried under layers of surging guitars, PLASTICZOOMS both capable of letting a song lurch in all sorts of directions (“The Sonnets”)…
One of the bands making up the Good On The Dance Floor collective written about the other day, Nu clear classmate describe their music as “suicide pop.” They elaborate on this by stating “dark dry guitar sound meets….feminine sweet melody.” Close, but that paints the vocal performance a little too brightly – the singing is…
Terribly named J-Hip-Hop group Funky Monkey Babys (no, really) recently went to China to perform, and thank God some Japanese show filmed this adventure. Now I know those Funky Monkey Babys can speak a sentence or two of Chinese! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s299dME0AE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] (Via Japan Probe)
Indie bands using violins and other orchestra-approved instruments has been in vogue for a while now, long enough where the shock of seeing a cello amongst electric guitars has all but vanished. At first glance, seeing something called the “Riddim Saunter Orchestra” leads to assumptions that you’re bound to hear yet another wide-eyed group of…
Good On The Dancefloor is an art collective based out of Tokyo consisting of four bands. The collective’s recently released a compilation album of music entitled ALT A NATIVE SYNDICATE. The music of the Good On The Dancefloor family jumps all around, from the dancey tunes of White Scooper and Nu clear classmate, to the…