Or, Make Believe Melodies’ rap update part one for the end of March. What timing! We have (basically) reached April which means we are a quarter of the way through 2016. Fast! That also means publications and honest-to-goodness people have started sharing favorite album lists for the first three months of the year, because the…
Perhaps because I was trying to ignore anything having to do with SOPHIE’s recent set of shows in Japan over the past weekend — because I would have gone but I had a prior engagement the day after and I’m now too old a human to stay out all night AND function properly afterwards —…
#10. Parupunte Primitive Imagine your favorite pop songs, but recorded deep within a cave. That’s Parupunte’s debut album Primitive, a rough but formidable collection that manages to capture the Osaka duo in all of their scratchy glory, playing absorbing pop songs that sound like the were recorded deep inside a national park. Whatever the circumstances,…
A few new songs appeared online over the weekend, from a pair of rising producers in Japan, so let’s make a little space for them, shall we? – As mentioned before, Madegg is set to drop an album, New, in early November. He’s shared a song from that collection recently called “Dragon,” which you can…
The promotional blitz for producer Tofubeat’s Positive continues with a new music video for “Suteki Na Mezon,” an easier-going number featuring model-turned-singer Tina Tamashiro. It’s pleasant enough when taken by itself, a nice ode to having a nice house, but it ultimately works better within the context of Positive, wherein it serves as a sweet…