These dudes, balls of titanium I tell you. That band name isn’t politely asking for a single wallet – they are demanding you give them wallets as if the average person has three extra chain purses on them at all times. The testicular fortitude doesn’t end at the aggressive moniker – new song “Amneasia” clocks…
Seems that sometime over the weekend Tokyo dance-noise duo Nu Clear Classmate called it a day. Vocalist Chick wrote about it a bit on her Twitter at various points over the last few days. Bit of a bummer considering the group’s debut EP Lick The Star sounds about as perfect as an EP can get,…
The zanily-upper-cased joyEL7 don’t hide their influences very well. Besides sprinkling the name of the band that inspired them all over their MySpace like oh so many sparkly GIF files, the opening seconds of any of their songs sonically ask “hey, remember that first Arctic Monkey’s album? And a lil’ of the second one?” This…
Two more articles in the Japan Times this week. One focuses on Maltine Records, which I’ve written about a bit ’round these parts. The other, though, touches on a group I’ve never written about on this blog – MacDonald Duck Eclair. Read that one, a review of their new album, here. I actually don’t have…
Supermarket music rarely finds itself next to the words “I enjoy listening to.” Based on my experience at the local Jusco, most of the songs either shill for fresh produce or re-imagine the latest Arashi single as MIDI-powered, legally OK dreck. Other places play similar stuff easily brushed off as “elevator music,” an insult to…