At this year’s Anime Central event in Chicago, the Friday night dance party Synergy featured some great Japanese artists taking to the decks. The fine folks at Attack The Music released an EP celebrating the event, featuring two original songs and a slew of remixes of said tracks (actually they have two albums, one of…
I normally wouldn’t post a snippet of a song…I’d just wait until the whole thing emerged…but this week has sucked immensely and I’m currently dealing with a lot of professional and personal stress…and Pa’s Lam System tends to make me feel alive and joyful and want to air-kick around my living room. Here’s a brief,…
It’s easy to scoff at the term “major-label debut,” but here’s where ties to a bigger imprint producer real-deal benefits for a bunch of folks. Tofubeats’ First Album wasn’t actually his first album, but it was his first official full length from Warner Brother’s Japan label UnBorde, and it was a frantic, YouTube-hole-like trip of…
I’m not a designer of any sort, so please enjoy this clip art. Something that tends to happen with end-of-the-year lists is writers and publications end up creating narratives for the year that just unfolded. The dominant one for 2014 so far has been “what a horrible year,” which…fair enough, if you followed the news…
The one thing I can predict rather confidently is…when these two songs play live, they will slay. As someone who has spent a lot of time in 2014 staying at home and avoiding live music (I’m a fun guy!), I have devoted precious nights spent in to thinking back to recent highlights of when I…