Nostalgia is a tricky thing. Everyone wants to dismiss it (or the idea of it), at least when it fits their feelings, but the moment something emerges that touches on some fantasized past, the same people are drooling over themselves. But a little bit of reflection — of thinking back on simpler times (maybe with…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF12h19h5uo”] March 11 is coming up, marking the one-year anniversary of the earthquake/tsunami. I wrote an article for The Atlantic about music after these disasters, and it features all sorts of names you might know – EXILE, Neon Cloud, Goth-Trad, Rankin’ Taxi…list goes on. Read it here, and make sure to watch all the videos…because…
Osaka’s Twinkle Twinkles have finally wised up to the Internet game. After spending a long stretch of time operating with just a MySpace page (note to all Japanese bands – GET OFF MYSPACE IT IS DEAD), the trio recently got in on SoundCloud and have posted three of their energetic gushes of twee rock to…
My mind isn’t nearly as sharp as it once was but I swear last I checked Twinkle Twinkles online presence they only featured three songs, not the current six. So unless I pushed out the memory of what songs appeared in the group’s MySpace-provided music player to make room for my weekly grocery list, these…
The great thing about a band making a splash on the scene…even one as unforgiving as the land of indie-music blogs…is they often help to get other bands from their area a little attention as well. Ice Cream Shout’s recent brush with web-fame hopefully means we might see a few other groups out of “Kansai,…