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Start Planning Your Summer Vacation: Summer Sonic Announces Red Hot Chili Peppers And The Strokes To Play 2011 Festival

ByPatrick St. Michel January 9, 2011

Man, high school me would be losing it right now. Despite being like eight months away, Summer Sonic has confirmed two acts who will be playing the two-day festival – the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Strokes. Both groups have new albums planned for 2011 so what better way to shill them to Japan then at this biggie-sized festival?

Fuji Rock, meanwhile, remains mum…for now. DUM DUM DUM.

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New Namie Amuro: “Golden Touch”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 30, 2015

(First off, the “interactive” element of this video is hilarious, but also sort of genius, like Google releasing Google Glass a couple years back and now settling on some cardboard specs. Put your finger here, and you can pretend it squirts mustard! Also, a furry relationship sub-story.) Namie Amuro’s switch from Japanese to Japanese/English singing…

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Yesterday Once More Teams Up Cosmopolyphonic: Savory
ByPatrick St. Michel November 20, 2015

Always good to see exciting collectives from different parts of the country team up to put out new music. Fukuoka’s Yesterday Once More keeps their strong 2015 going by joining up with Tokyo’s Cosmopolyphonic — no strangers to working with on the rise scenes, as they also were one of the first to hook up…

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Dreamy Safari: Antelope
ByPatrick St. Michel May 18, 2010

I wouldn’t associate the antelope with dream pop…I’d expect such a majestic beast to be associated with something a bit more stampeding, like metal or maybe dubstep if said critter felt particular dark one day. Yet, in the same way Beach House transformed the zebra into “Zebra,” Japanese band Antelope makes said animal and slow,…

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Soleil Soleil Releases If I Could EP
ByPatrick St. Michel March 9, 2015

Great music rarely just appears…it comes from somewhere, and usually the route to it takes some time. Back in late 2011 and 2012, an Osaka artist named OMEGABOY started sharing his wonky, squeaky electronic music online. He played synths in a band called Talking City 1994, an outfit that would go on to release some…

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FPM: “Without You”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 24, 2010

House producer FPM boasts a lot of great music worth you’re time over at his MySpace. Despite sometimes flirting with too-much squanky crunchiness (picture a parrot stepping on leaves for all eternity), he finds a way to inject a good bit of charm into his track. “Without You” loses any of the electro-house connections and…

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New Amunoa: “Smmr”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 24, 2017

Producer Amunoa excels at turning small moments into anthems. “Smmr” is poised as, well, a summer jam from the frantic artist, featuring a warm disco vibe and some sweltering synth work. The real hook of “Smmr” is the vocal snippet rippling throughout — it sounds like it was recorded through a talk box, but rather…

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