Watch (A Better Quality!) Video Of Sakanaction’s “Boku To Hana”
Much finer quality than when we first got a glimpse of this. Watch above, and have a nice weekend.
Much finer quality than when we first got a glimpse of this. Watch above, and have a nice weekend.
Every element of Sea Level’s “Race Against the Drum Machine” feels stitched together into a really jarring patchwork. The group, split between Fukuoka and Tokyo, recently put out their debut full-length on Call And Response (get that here), and this advance peek stands as one of the more wobbly — and fun in its unsteadiness…
Chiptune is, for me, one of those styles that presents a particular tightrope when it comes to writing about it. That’s because I’m drawn to artists using 8-bit sounds in an interesting way and…see, there it is! “Interesting ways,” as if lots of methods aren’t just that. But even though I know this can teeter…
Within the Kansai region, it’s a breeze to find interesting music in Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe. That leaves poor Nara as the odd-one-out of the area’s musical scene…it’s not some barren wasteland of sonic ideas, but you don’t hear much about the stuff coming out of the city and prefecture the same way you do…
People in or near the city of Osaka, attention! This upcoming weekend has so many good concerts going broke for them seems totally reasonable. At the top of the heap: Saturday’s Joanna Newsom show featuring impressive Japanese opener Dry River String, and Sunday’s knock out of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. That Sunday…
One of the most straightforward sweet songs the trio Teen Runnings have ever written, “High School Love” is the latest taste of the group’s forthcoming Now full-length, and it hints that not all of the outfit’s interpretations of ’60s surf music are fractured with bad memories. This is sugar sweet, about a usually doomed subject…
Ho hum, another day and another Japanese band working in jittery rock full of group shouts and stuttering guitar. Kyoto’s CUSTOM NOISE join the likes of Africaemo and fellow all-caps users NOKIES! in making manic music almost seemingly ready to explode into a thousand different directions with each passing second. Unlike the previous two acts…and…