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…
20. Your Gold, My Pink “Adolescence” Back in May I saw Your Gold, My Pink play the Nara Street Style Music Festival, going into their late-day set absolutely jazzed to see what they could do live. An hour later I wanted to hightail it to the McDonald’s across the street to drown my disappointment in…
The mini-album may not be as strange as Japanroos, but it’s still a weird format for a record. A little longer than an EP but apparently not enough minutes to be an album, the mini-album has become the go-to format for many indie bands in Japan. Though it sometimes seems like a band releasing a…
Dear Your Gold, My Pink, I hope this letter finds you well. I won’t waste space on formalities – you were one of the first bands to really get me excited about Japan’s music scene when I first came to these shores. You’re catchy melodies and sudden outbursts of pure joy sounded like an evolutionary…
The scene best summing up the 2010 Nara Street Style Music festival happened early in the afternoon, inside the event’s strangest venue, a hotel. In the hallway between a foyer, a banquet hall and what appeared to be a wedding area (all three serving as stages), the nightmare-inducing Nara mascot Sentokun danced about and mugged…