[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w0rf10nPm0″] Because we live in an age where most people celebrate a band getting their music used in a commercial, where becoming the backing sound of a new Toyota signals a huge leap forward for a career (and it does, and that’s good!), because this is Japan where this type of thing seems typical, where…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWn7zbgxZ4″] Note video above not the song, but rather something that might weird ya out For a while there Metrotune played it safe by just posting Dilla-inspired beats. Now with “Pickles” the mysterious producers hit us with…a Reagan-era club jam that could double as filler music in an episode of Miami Vice. Metrotune’s still slicing…
One glance at the t-shirt racks of a Hot Topic or the recent film work of Michael Bay should convince you…if you didn’t already notice…that the 80s remain uber hip. Plenty of other junior pop-culture writers have already pointed out how a lot of people babbling about the Reagan years didn’t actually exist during them,…
Western media coverage of the Japanese music scene in 2010 seems to be following a very recession-friendly pattern – stick to what people know. So that means something like “Boris, Boredoms plus associated acts, maybe check in on Shugo and Afriampo if we have space.” Can’t really blame them – there is so much music…