On Saturday, March 31, Osaka’s Ice Cream Shout will play a show alongside Iceland’s Pascal Pinon and a few other Japanese bands. In advance of this gig, the band has posted a new demo song called “UGot2BHigh” which you can hear for the next week. Listen below, or download it here. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/40550630″ iframe=”true” /]
Bob of Osaka indie-pop outfit Ice Cream Shout writes that “Broken By Inertia,” the newest song from his solo project Cloudy Busey, isn’t all that new. “Actually, it’s old as shit,” he writes before revealing the song’s life began about three years ago and that Ice Cream Shout have busted out the tune on the…
10. Nu Clear Classmate “Blank World” “Suicide Pop,” Nu Clear Classmate’s self-created genre of choice, would be a tough one to explain save for the efforts of one pop star to define it for the world by complete accident – M.I.A. Her mostly reviled 2010 album ///Y/…for the record, not nearly as bad as critics…
Superb blog Stadiums And Shrines posted a nice interview with Ice Cream Shout member Bob recently, and it’s a good little read. Bob of Ice Cream Shout likes J. Dilla…we could be friends! Anyway, the musical hook for all of you types who need to hear something now would be a remix of the group’s…
One of the better stories to come out of the Japanese music landscape in 2010…especially from the Osaka scene, represent…would be bouncy outfit Ice Cream Shout getting some blog traction for the tune “Tattooed Tears.” This came with some bonus treats – the group’s 2009 album got some attention from blogs, and the various side…