Cleverly named house artists HARUOSEVEN’s new track “Feel It On” easily could have been just another bubbly jam floating around on the Internet. That wouldn’t have been a terrible thing, as “Feel It On” boasts big multi-colored blasts of keyboard surrounding an appropriate vocal sample. Cherryboy Function released an EP knocking out similarly dizzy wooshes…
Ho hum, another day and another Japanese band working in jittery rock full of group shouts and stuttering guitar. Kyoto’s CUSTOM NOISE join the likes of Africaemo and fellow all-caps users NOKIES! in making manic music almost seemingly ready to explode into a thousand different directions with each passing second. Unlike the previous two acts…and…
Let’s go into this weekend – Valentine’s weekend nonetheless, where the romantics blossom and the single stew – with a lesson courtesy of SWIM SWEET UNDER SHALLOW. This duo aren’t knocking over walls trying to create a breathtaking new sound…the music available here skews towards guitar-heavy rock-pop right on the edge of “indie-popness.” Despite being…
Japan’s nearly reached spazz-rock critical peak. Though not making much of a dent on the mainstream charts, plenty of indie-leaning groups who have a MySpace account and a good shouting voice have popped up to share their brand of all-together-now rock with the world. It’s a weird mix of Los Campesinos! tweeness and the sort…
The line between “noisy and melodic” and “just plain loud” can be a tricky one to tightrope – just ask KAFKA. The majority of songs available for listening here try to impress with pure pummeling sound. Guitars wail away while the lead singer subs out anything resembling pleasant singing for a howling screech meant to…