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.
Tokyo outfit LLLL’s newest album, Faithful, just officially came out, and you should certainly hunt it down. To give you another preview of it — one featuring the project’s original singer rather than a guest making a fantastic turn — LLLL released a video for second song “Blue,” which you can watch above. The song…
I missed out on the Osaka leg of Max Tundra’s Japan tour this weekend, opting instead to follow Allstate’s advice and play Jenga. This wallet-conscious move also meant I’d miss out on the opening act, Kyoto-based artist Rei Harakami. I figured he’d be cut out of the mold as Ben Jacobs electro project, all manic…
Remember when MP3s were going to be the death of the music industry, and labels had to stop at nothing to get illegal tracks off of the Internet? The dirty secret of those glory days was that YouTube was way, way worse – while The Web Sheriff zeroed in on blogs, most kids were just…
We’ve reached the midpoint of June…geez, time keeps marching on doesn’t it…and basically the midway point of the year. At this juncture, Make Believe Melodies will spend the next week taking a look back at some of the Japanese music that managed to slip through the cracks for one reason or another. Expect a few…
Labels and collectives gestate around all kinds of unifying theories, from identity to specific genre to shared interests. If Dark Jinja’s first compilation points at an overarching ethos, it’s that they love the dark and unnerving side of electronic music. Dark Jinja Compilation I is a masterclass in all things jittery, with nearly every inclusion…
I have no idea who Cool Japan is, even though I THINK I know who it is (rhymes with “mofu wheats”), but that’s just a sinking suspicion with no real proof. Damn you journalistic conscience. Whoever Cool Japan is, they’ve released a fair amount of material…the bulk of it being vaporwave, the outfit itself cheering…