[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okekv-eSgN0″] I talked to Victoria Legrand from Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House for The Japan Times this week, as they will be playing this year’s Fuji Rock Festival. Read the whole thing here. Also, if for some reason you never got around to their excellent 2010 release Teen Dream, get on that, an album I…
The Fuji Rock Festival announced a handful of new acts set to play the three-day event in late July. Among the new gets, Baltimore band Beach House who released one of my personal favorite albums of last year with Teen Dream. Other notables, Tangerine Dream and Queens Of The Stone Age. You can also check…
Gotta do this quick because I HAVE WORK but a few of the highlights of the Fuji Rock lineup: – Arctic Monkeys – Deerhoof (!) – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (!) – Warpaint (!!!!) – Atari Teenage Riot – Wilco – Yellow Magic Orchestra – Mogwai Full list here.
As the rainy season of Japan approaches and we say goodbye to such things as sunshine and going outside, the thoughts of an individual stuck indoors for the immediate future turns to one hopeful thought – summer music festivals! Japan boasts two giant concertpaloozas, the Fuji Rock Festival and the Summer Sonic Festival, happening around…
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…