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.
[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.
No label does compilations quite like Ano(t)raks. This decade, their stuffed-tight collections have highlighted artists who have gone on too much bigger things in the Japanese market…and also highlighted some of the more interesting artists to stay in the indie world, too. Die In Pop is the label’s latest, and like previous efforts offers a…
I’ve been thinking a lot about samples recently — mainly, the dilemma that so many artists stir up in me when they create songs that are just slightly edited versions of obscure tracks. On the one hand, it seems lazy and obscures the original. On the other…this has always been part of dance music, and…
Is everything just going to be a loop backwards from now on? This isn’t about Upusen’s Signal specifically, though it does factor into the larger trend. Maybe it’s just Japan’s current obsession with all things ’90s — this movie is literally “do you remember gyaru fashion and Tamagothchi?” — or the Western world’s love of…
This month’s Music Alliance Pact is here! For August, we put the spotlight on the fast-rising Qrion, specifically one of her songs from this year’s great Sink EP. Listen to it…and a lot more…below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab…
This month’s Music Alliance Pact, wherein over 30 blogs from around the world share great music, struck me as especially difficult. I chose one of my favorite artists of the year so far, Occult You a.k.a. Taquwami, but narrowing it down to just one song proved difficult. After a long listening session, I opted for…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhqTO2GODU”] One of the standout blasts of indie-pop from Hideki Kaji And Riddim Saunter’s 2010 team-up…liked around these parts…gets a video. Watch the dudes play around above.