It’s that wonderful time of the year, after the holidays and after a vacation spent abroad wherein I desperately try to catch up on all the music that came out during this time away. Making this even more difficult is the stream of news stories coming out, both music related (Keyakizaka46 seeing several members faint…
Look, I’m not going to pretend blogging about music at a deeply weird moment like this is worthwhile, and right now I don’t think music can be much more than pure escapism. But both acts — writing and listening — offers some very slight calm in the face of vast uncertainty (or, like, at least…
Maltine Records teamed up with the Red Bull Studios Tokyo for a two day event…and the first evening went down yesterday. Producers Hercelot and Tomggg teamed up for a song called “Greengum,” and it is one of those beautiful sonic moments where the stylings of both artists comes through so clearly. Neither gets muddled —…
California’s Meishi Smile – Maltine artist and one of the co-founders of Zoom Lens, which has released music from the likes of i-fls, Yoshino Yoshikawa and other Japanese artists – recently released a new single called “Star,” the original version of which you can hear here and which can be downloaded here. It’s great, but…