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Newcomers to Japanese shoegaze over the past decade – I’m looking at you, me – will have surely come across the name Burrrn and their 2011 debut album Blaze Down His Way Like The Space Show as must-listens, and indeed the My Bloody Valentine-admiration on that record treads just on the right side of slavish […]
One of the things I like most about Japanese shoegaze bands is that, by and large, the bands come with a very strong identity and aesthetic – and not just because they almost all still take the trouble to come up with logos. Case in point, Plant Cell, which began as the project of Masaki […]
The title of the latest release from The Chameleons – Tomorrow Remember Yesterday is out today – is especially apt as the band continues to simultaneously establish themselves as a current, forward-looking act – releasing their first new single in a quarter-century this past Spring and releasing their first new album in that long next […]
And here we are with taste number two of The Cure’s forthcoming Songs Of A Lost World. “A Fragile Thing” is, as Robert Smith put it in a video interview clip reported on by NME: “It’s the ‘love song’ of the album, but it’s not really a love song in the way that [1989’s] ‘Lovesong’ […]
As I try to recover from a three-nights–of-gigs–in-a-row weekend – no regrets, but I am full-on Danny Glover over here – some low-hanging fruit in the form of Slowdive’s appearance at Spain’s Bilbao BBK Live festival this past July. It’s 70 minutes of professionally-shot, beautiful-sounding footage of the band at the top of their game, […]
Not much time or energy these days for, well, anything, but with this year’s edition of Next Music From Tokyo kicking off tonight at The Horseshoe here in Toronto, here’s a video – maybe the band’s first? – by the ostensible headliners of the fest, Hammer Head Shark. “Echo” is the opening track of their […]
This is the live music week I’ve been looking forward to the most all year, with three straight nights of J-rock coming to town to kick my ass, and so I’m preparing for it the only way I know how – by blogging. It starts off tomorrow night with Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs hitting […]
Though newcomers to the scene – that’s the Thai shoegaze scene, but music in general – with a discography just four songs deep, Bangkok’s Slowwves have already shown themselves to be a name to watch. The bio from their Bandcamp (which has only one track to stream) details their origins as: Peem (guitar) got to know Jill […]
A lot has happened since Saint Petersburg’s Blankenberge released their 2021 album Everything – Russia invaded Ukraine, the band relocated to somewhere/anywhere else (their last publicly announced whereabouts was Serbia), and I fell in love with their music. Not necessarily in that order. But given the extenuating circumstances, it’s understandable that it took the band […]
So here it is, more than 16 years after the last new official single from The Cure, the first taste of their new album Songs Of A Lost World, officially set for release on November 1. Let’s put aside for now the fact that they’ve promised this record for almost two years now and already […]
