Programming Note: My computer died today (water on the keyboard…not good people!) so posts might be slightly more infrequent. Pray to whatever computer god you believe in for me, thanks. But hey…here are two songs about wanting to get away from everything for a bit, how timely. It’s becoming clear electro-diva MEG works best as…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hkMaDkjDpU”] Few tracks try so hard to sabotage themselves. “Love Train” features so many potential landmines…chief among them that style of “pop rap” that gets under my skin like no other and an over-sugared chorus…that it’s a miracle it doesn’t collapse into one big pile of J-Lo pop trash. Yet the production on “Love Train”…
Not to downplay the coolness of new Shugo Tokumaru music videos, but the most exciting news out of the twee-whirlwind’s universe recently is that his excellent new LP Port Entropy will be released in North America and Europe on October 18. Coincidentally, that’s about the same time the current number one movie in America The…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfG_G2O2q40″] Up to this moment I didn’t know much about World’s End Girlfriend. Well, I had assumptions…back in my school days I knew I guy REALLY into post-rock. Naturally, he was a film major. “Hey man, you like Explosions In The Sky?” I sure did. “Check out this band called World’s End Girlfriend, they are…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYyoaGzNxzU”] “Let’s Go” is one of those songs that’s just dumb to think about. I mean, you could try breaking this down (lord knows I spend enough time psychoanalyzing J-Pop that I’d try) and maybe come away with something. But the latest from The Mirraz is not intended to be a thinker – the girl-tastic…