The Greatest YouTube Clip Of The Year Award
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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.
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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.
Longtime since hearing from indie-pop project Daisyblue, who return with a new album called Eldorado Reliruleru. The collection is at its strongest with the first two songs, which find Dasyblue plugging away at some tried-and-true formulas. “She Knows” is straight-ahead indie-pop rush, guided by vocals that want to shrink down beneath the song but gather…
Osaka Game-Boy genius 99 Letters has been quite productive as of late. Well, at least according to some entries on his blog – dude has about four EPs due out in November. Let’s run ’em down, shall we? – First up is the 3 A.M. and Boys Like Girls EPs out on November 10. Both…
The All Tomorrow’s Parties concert series will come to Japan for the first time early next year. The “I’ll Be Your Mirror” event curated by ATP happens at Tokyo’s Studio Coast on February 27. Headlining will be recently reactivated gloom-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor. They’ll be joined on the bill by several noisy Japanese artists,…
As a Christmas song, “A Winter Fairy Is Melting A Snowman” is pretty damn awesome, none of the cloying sentimental schlock most folks give into as they sell their bone marrow for a Kinect. As a Kaela Kimura song…ehhhh, bit of a mixed bag. When the synths come in near the beginning and her voice…
Not too long ago, CUZ ME PAIN’s Jesse Ruins signed with Double Denim records and plans were made to release the Tokyo bedroom producer’s debut seven inch in the near future. Well, the “A Bookshelf Sinks Into The Sand/In Icarus” records comes out in early December and now you can hear the A-side right now….
Last year in Japanese music, for me at least, was defined by the experimental meaning-we-do-not-need-no-meaning-here wonder of producers such as Foodman, DJWWWW and Toiret Status. Their chaotic but delightfully dizzying exercises in exploring sounds — regardless of how out there those noises got — crystalized the most head-spinning movement in the country going, and made…