Your Gold, My Pink have some real stones on them. They’ve named their debut full-length album…out next Wednesday…Teenage Riot, which also happens to be the title of one of the best rock songs ever recorded (in my humble opinion). Not content to stare down Sonic Youth, the album’s first single is called “Virgin Suicides,” which…
Predawn’s always sounded intimate, the folk-leaning songs on her Ten Minutes With Predawn EP and her 2010 longplayer A Bird In The Hand coming off like personal journal scribblings. Yet even on those sparse and confessional tracks, the Tokyo artists never sounded particularly fragile – even on the downtrodden “What Does It Mean?” she kept…
All relationships need the occasional dash of spice in them to work, a change of scenery if you will. Tsu Shi Mi Ma Re have been performing for more than a decade now, so I don’t blame them for trying something drastically new for their next release. That said…this seems a bit much, the equivalent…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMjuPBARGHg”] The cynic in me said last week that J-Pop in 2012 looked to be a gloomy affair, another 12 months of AKB48 roundabouts and Johnny’s drippings and whatever EXILE does. Three weeks into the year and I was ready to toss it out of the window. Then, with excellent timing, this past week has…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWCEIfvqzk”] The recent boom in electronic music in the Kansai area has thus far mostly been a story of individual producers, solo artists rapidly uploading new blasts of music to SoundCloud as fast as their Internet connection allows them to. Although a few places serve as gathering points for this scene – the parties put…