Dear Japanese bands, I love you guys a lot, but why you gotta go and post new tracks at 1:00 A.M.? I realize that by being up I should actually consider myself fortunate but I literally was setting my alarm for tomorrow when I saw this new track from CUZ ME PAIN bro :visited. The…
Was literally brushing my teeth when I noticed that Kyoto’s Madegg posted a new track called “Mono U Ni” to his SoundCloud page. Take a listen to this spacey…as in minimalist, not constellations…track below while I wash my face. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/22052464″]
I went to the Tokyo leg of Summer Sonic this year for The Japan Times, and you can read my report of the festival now. A few stray thoughts that didn’t find a way into the actual article. – I’m told Yelle and Two Door Cinema Club also killed it at the Mountain Stage on…
Here’s something I’ll never type again…reader, have mercy on the songs featured here this week. Due to a combination of moving woes (“what do you mean I’m out of boxes?????? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN’T FIND MY APARTMENT??????”) and the [REDACTED] (this sounded way more melodramatic when I wrote it Wednesday, let’s just move…
Reviewed the perfectly enjoyable Style Band Tokyo compilation, featuring the likes of Hotel Mexico and Lillies And Remains, for The Japan Times today. Read it here. As mentioned, it’s a good collection but it also doesn’t shed a ton of light on what Style Band Tokyo really is about. The best discovery was Pop-Office, a…