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The day the Next Music From Toyko lineup is announced is kind of like Christmas for me… at least since I started attending last year. So yeah, not that long, but considering that the traveling mini-festival is the only way I’ll get to see any of Japan’s indie rock scene live short of flying over […]
So I haven’t done one of these “Iterations” posts since last Summer because, well, they can take a lot of time and my list of songs that have enough interesting versions to share has been shrinking. But New Order are one of those reliable acts with a slew of iconic songs that have been performed […]
John McGeoch’s career is pretty well-documented at this point – any resume with Magazine, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Visage, and Public Image Limited certainly has its own luminosity – but one chapter that frequently gets overlooked is as a founding member of short-lived ’80s supergroup The Armoury Show. Okay, “supergroup” might be overstating it, but […]
It has been two and a half years since Tokyo’s Kurayamisaka released their debut mini-album Kimi Wo Omotte Iru and in that time, the buzz around them has grown pretty substantially, such that even international media like NME has taken notice. You might think that this attention would prompt them to make physical copies of […]
The dearth of good quality live Cocteau Twins material – and I’m talking audio, never mind video which sadly just doesn’t exist – is a real shame, so when something like this complete soundboard recording from a Tokyo show circa Treasure surfaces, well, you share it. The recording comes courtesy of Moose bassist Lincoln Fong, […]
Someone on r/shoegaze asked this week, “What happened to Dirty On Purpose?” which, of course, opened some serious nostalgia floodgates. I’d actually intended to do a post on the dearly departed Brooklyn shoegazers but that just done got moved up some. I’ll be digging up some old pics for an IG post soon, too. Dirty […]
You might say that Minneapolis’ She’s Green are having a pretty good 2025. They just wrapped one North American tour supporting Glixen and will set out on another with Softcult next month, and are certainly making the most of their Canadian work visas. That’s a lot of road time for a band whose only release […]
Since disbanding in 2019, Kinoko Teikoku have done a tremendous job of not giving fans any shred of hope about any further activities. Frontwoman Chiaki Satō has carved out a solo career that occasionally contains echoes of the visceral emo-gaze that made her old band so influential and beloved, but largely hews to pretty straight […]
It figures that a band that create as delicate, fragile, and internal-sounding dreampop as Detroit’s Clinic Stars don’t have a tremendous online presence – a Bandcamp, an Instagram, and a couple of shaky fan-shot live videos – but when they’ve already given us a record as beautiful as their 2024 full-length debut Only Hinting, asking […]
Their contributions to the first volume of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage back in February confirmed that contrary to expectations, fka Chromatics – Ruth Radelet, Adam Miller, and Nat Walker – were just as good without Johnny Jewel as they were with. Now, with the release of the second part of the game, denoted “Tape […]
