Seeing as I’m new to this Japanese music world, I hope you’ll forgive me for hyping up an artist whose latest album came out back in May. 80kidz are an electronic trio making music in the Kitsune/Ed Banger style, but often more poppy than hard. There album This Is My Shit never sags over its…
Disclaimer: I do not own a high quality camera, thus these photos aren’t top notch. If you started a fund to get me an SLR, I wouldn’t object. I have no idea where Flake Records is or even what kind of music they actually sell, but based on their special “Tone Flakes Special” show at…
Pitchfork just finished up their Top 200 Albums of the 2000s list today and only two Japanese albums from the past ten years placed – Boris’ Akuma no Uta (#197) and Boredoms’ Vision Creation Newsun (#39, but should be higher in this writer’s humble opinion). I realize the folks over at the ‘Fork needed to…
They also try out some tunes by The Stylistics and The Gypsy Kings. Dudes got the Garfunkel hair down, though. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGNPPU2DVr8&hl=en&fs=1&]
At the sundae bar we call music, irony takes the role of the extra-sugar sprinkles at the end of the table. A few spoonfuls aren’t bad and could even add some flavor, but too much ruins a perfectly good treat. This year has seen an epidemic of artists loading up on irony and absolutely shooting…