10. The Mornings Save The Mornings The past year saw a lot of Japanese bands trying to fill one of two molds – some groups tried to capture youthful exuberance via a lot of yelping in an effort to be like early Los Campesinos!, while another batch tried fast-talking over math-ey guitar patterns like they…
Perhaps you’ve noticed at your local mall/supermarket…or maybe you just read one of the gillion articles pointing it out that cropped up online this past week…that the Christmas decorations are starting to come out. Which means…only a matter of weeks before J-Pop stars start pumping out holiday songs for us to shudder at. The first…
The little I’ve read about OMODAKA seems to emphasize how great the artist’s videos are. Very true, but I hope the music isn’t getting shortchanged by this praise for the visual side. What I’ve heard from OMODAKA (mostly from this MySpace page) offers an interesting take on pop music. Though bathing a pop song in…