I reviewed The Brixton Academy’s Bright As Diamonds over at Tokyo Indie, and you can read that here. The gist…good album, but not as good as Vivid (which is a very tall order!). Some incredible songs though, like “Two Shadows United” and “One Time, One Night.” You should also check out The Japan Times’ article…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2C9iWWPwtA”] Mop Of Head are a four-piece instrumental band from Tokyo. I’ve never actually mentioned them on this blog before, but wrote something up about them and their debut album Retronix for The Japan Times today. Read it here! As the story mentions, these dudes are all over the place with their influences, though nearly…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Wie3GKjy0″] In which I finally get a big platform to share my love of Girls’ Generation…sorta. I wrote an article for The Atlantic online about K-Pop’s growth in Japan over the past year, which you can read here. It features a bunch of videos which you’ve probably seen around these parts since last August…though the…
To some degree, Cokiyu is responsible for you reading this post on this blog right now. I’m not talking in the head-slappingly obvious way that you probably Googled that name and somehow ended up here, but rather the little truth that this blog might not even exist if it weren’t for college-aged me stumbling across…
This week in The Japan Times, I reviewed Miila And The Geeks’ debut album New Age. Read it right here. The only real thing I want to add on top of that review is more praise…New Age is easily the most interesting album released in Japan this year, and a very strong contender for being…