Make Believe Melodies’ Guide To South By Southwest: The Japanese Bands You Should See

ByPatrick St. Michel

Starting this Tuesday, thousands of music nerds will descend on Austin, Texas for the music portion of the South By Southwest festival, or every blogger’s personal Shangri-La. Over the course of five days, bands from all over the world will play an ungodly number of concerts at all sorts of wacky times while various fans/writers…

All-Star Stuff: If By Yes’ “You Feel Right” (Cornelius Mix)

ByPatrick St. Michel

Musical supergroups usually end up the butt of jokes – remember the way 40-Year-Old Virgin treated Asia? – so take If By Yes with a little caution. Yet this one does have some real potential to tread above Judd Apatow punchlines, featuring Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, Araki Yuko of The Cornelius Group, Shimizu Hirotaka…