40. The Telephones “Kiss Me, Love Me, Kiss Me” The video tries to trick you into thinking The Telephones remain the same attention-rattled guys as before, the type of band who would make finger puppets the big draw of their clip. “Kiss Me, Love Me, Kiss Me” the song, though, finds the group getting a…
On “Say What?,” the sixth track on Cubismo Grafico Five’s new album Double Dozen, the band seemingly stumble into a song doubling as an appropriate description of their music. “Are you garage band?/Are you trash band?” lead Cubismo man Gakuji Matsuda shouts at some unknown entity. “Are you really punk?/Are you hard core?/Are you electro?”…
Seems most of Japan missed the film PCU, because most concerts feature tons of fans being “that guy” wearing a t-shirt from the band playing that night. It’s a weird flip-around, realizing you, the dweeb wearing another group’s swag, might actually constitute the minority. Self-consciousness doesn’t seem to exist at Japanese shows, replaced by real…
Seeing that Cubismo Grafico Five’s new album Double Dozen drops this Tuesday, reviewing the group’s “Life Is Like A Season” 7″ release a scant day before the official LP release is like writing a blog post about a fancy restaurants breadsticks before the main course. I love breadsticks, though, so consider this a super-tiny preview…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYyXFe_7VLY&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Cubismo Grafico (along with his Five) have always struck me as a little fun-loving and at times goofy. But…heart on sleeve? I first thought “Chuckit,” from Cubismo Grafico Five’s new album Double Dozen, could be a bit of gag – it’s all “We Are The World” unison singing complete with a video that opens…