Powerpop trio Honeydew have a new album coming out soon, and they’ve shared the straight-ahead “Letter To Home” over at Powerpop Academy as a preview. This is a no frills, right-to-the point number, one where the outfit plunge forward until they get to that big juicy hook. This is them operating at their best, and…
30. Michiyo Honda “Paradise Lost” J-Pop remains an easy punching bag in 2011 because most of the criticism lobbed at Japanese mainstream music ring true. A large chunk of acts crowding the upper reaches of the Oricon chart are 90’s holdovers with appropriately bland tunes. Labels seem to be in an arms race to see…
Two positive reviews in this week’s Japan Times courtesy of me. One focuses on fuzzy indie-poppers Honeydew, who released a solid little debut album. Read about it here. Grab the CD, and also see them live if at all possible – I caught them in Osaka playing in an Irish Pub not remotely conducive to…
So who do these guys sound like? Yo La Tengo? Sorta like The Smashing Pumpkins? Kinda like Britpop? “Indie music?” Tough to call, but they come off as definitively 90’s as a flannel-clad dude drinking OK soda. Thing is…that’s OK! Everyone is running back to that Clinton-tastic decade…you read a (bafflingly postively) Yuck review? Or…