20. Your Gold, My Pink “Adolescence” Back in May I saw Your Gold, My Pink play the Nara Street Style Music Festival, going into their late-day set absolutely jazzed to see what they could do live. An hour later I wanted to hightail it to the McDonald’s across the street to drown my disappointment in…
December arrives, bringing with it the most truly joyous time of the year…the month where every music critic/blogger labors over their “Year End List” before sharing it with a mostly indifferent world. Of course, this blog isn’t remotely above that…we (by which I mean “just me”) is currently creating such lists with as much care…
The months just keep passing and the summer draws even closer. Let’s check in with Japan’s premier summer festivals to see what’s up. – The big new update on the Summer Sonic front would be reunited indie-gods Pavement getting a slot. They already dazzled Tokyo and (especially) Osaka once before, so if you missed out…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbzdw_ZjQNs&hl=en_US&fs=1&] So Asian Kung-Fu Generation have a new single out this week, and I have no idea what to feel about it. As a reviewer that’s basically me admitting I suck at my job, but “ソラニン” strikes me as a tricky beast. It’s the official theme song for the soon-to-be-out film Solanin and it feels…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApgUY2qwt3E&hl=en_US&fs=1&] This is so, so…. different! I have never heard AKG like this, at first I didn’t even recognize them. I’ve heard every AKG song, and they have never made a song like this. I’m not sure how I feel. I like it, but it doesn’t really sound AKG, I mean it does have its…