Let’s step into the way-back machine and travel back to the autumn of 2009. I’ve been living in Japan for only a few months, out in the countryside outside of Osaka. Sometimes, for kicks, I’d just go to shows in the city randomly without knowing anything about the group’s playing. Although this resulted in seeing…
Just like the song list, I intend to share 25 albums almost surely overlooked by the West that I really enjoyed in the past year. Of course, I missed just as many great albums and a year from now I’ll probably regret/want to expand this. Yet these 25 albums definitely deserve your attention. 25. Hideki…
40. The Telephones “Kiss Me, Love Me, Kiss Me” The video tries to trick you into thinking The Telephones remain the same attention-rattled guys as before, the type of band who would make finger puppets the big draw of their clip. “Kiss Me, Love Me, Kiss Me” the song, though, finds the group getting a…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87RinkXCNxc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=ja_JP&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Wednesday rock out on the top of a helicopter landing pad for the video to one of their excellent debut’s best songs. Watch and listen above.
Physical copies of Wednesday’s debut full-length Start The Start come packaged with a pair of classic 3-D glasses. Meant to enhance the anaglyph video for single “? Love,” the red-blue shades also offer an easy critical lead-in to discussing the music. I can see the first draft now – talk a little about how 3-D…