[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW1r5oCGf2Q”] In which Tokyo’s Teen Runnings (formerly Friends, for those not caught up) notice the season and ditch the beach for the mountains…sorta. New song “Wonder Mountaineering” declares as much with its title – which, a Google search of “song with mountaineering in the title,” reveals to be a frontrunner for best song with mountaineering…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBisYebuHhk”] This one dropped late last night, so apologies for not getting around to it until now. Yet Tokyo Pinsalocks strike me as a group where immediate consumption isn’t necessarily, a slower gestation period perfectly fine for a band like this has been around for a decade now. Whereas young bands (in any part of…
The other day we posted a Cloudy Busey track that came out in late December, a dance song called “Don’t Know Why You Love Me.” Bob, who fronts Ice Cream Shout and counts Cloudy Busey as his personal project, tweeted us afterwards noting that “it was a dry run.” Now we know what it was…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1-cnmcic8s”] Make Believe Melodies just spent five days in Washington D.C., watching a bunch of college football, drinking fancy beers and gorging on Swedish meatballs. The unfortunate side effect of this trip…besides a sudden ballooning of my stomach…was a lack of Internet that meant missing out on new Japanese music, most prominently this new song…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv4gUdn6Lcc”] The fact this didn’t go even more viral is a sign society needs to be reset and we should all start over. Amazing on at least four levels.