Like kids getting a new puppy or a high school baseball team winning a big tournament, a very specific set of Japanese music fans are pumping their fists in celebration today as tech-rock crew √thumm’s new album Yamatopia drops today. To trio have posted two songs from their second LP onto MySpace to help get…
Man, these guys don’t mess around. Only half-a-year after releasing their debut album Coton, techrockers √thumm return with Yamatopia, their sophomore effort. If you can’t wait until July 28 for it to drop, the trio have uploaded quick snippets of the album’s tracks at their MySpace. While your there you can also take a listen…
The scene best summing up the 2010 Nara Street Style Music festival happened early in the afternoon, inside the event’s strangest venue, a hotel. In the hallway between a foyer, a banquet hall and what appeared to be a wedding area (all three serving as stages), the nightmare-inducing Nara mascot Sentokun danced about and mugged…
I ventured out to Osaka’s Fandango live house on a warm Saturday afternoon to see an opening band. The risks involved in going to a concert just for the undercard go deep – chance of wasting money, hating the other bands slotted above the one you actually wanted to see, in the case of Fandango…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWwNiQ4GiGw&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I totally missed it, but √thumm made a video for their propulsive electro-jam “NEU!” back in December. Since I’m all about late news (or, more accurately, the band’s debut album was an absolute beast) I’m sharing it in all it’s psychy goffiness. The fuzzy yellow rabbit guy from the Coton album cover plays a…