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Being one of the OG Japanese shoegaze bands AND hailing from Osaka, I was obviously keen to post some Honeydip but what do you know – I already shared their one and only video last year to celebrate their return to active duty and the remaster and reissue of their last two albums (although apparently […]
Here’s one to file under near misses. I’ve been a Yuragi fan since well before my J-gaze/rock/pop obsession began a few years ago, but naturally have never gotten to see them perform as they’ve yet to leave Asia for any live performances. But now, as I roll into their hometown of Osaka, I have just […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that current Hong Kong shoegaze starts and ends with Lucid Express – they’re certainly the flag-bearers – but if Apple Music’s RIYL algorithm is to be believed, HK’s Tofu Kingdom are right up there as well. You’d be forgiven for wanting to dismiss them on the basis of their name […]
It’s a little ridiculous that I’m posting about a Hong Kong band from Hong Kong while said band is tooling around North America and will be in my town in a week and a half or so, but here we are. I’m talking, of course, about Lucid Express who released their second album Instant Comfort […]
Just a quick one as I board a very early, very long flight for – three guesses, first two don’t count. “Hong Kong Garden” was Siouxsie & The Banshees’ very first single, released in August 1978, and actually has nothing to do with the titular city-state. It’s named for a Chinese restaurant in London they […]
As much as I was recently reflecting on the end of Chromatics, I would be remiss to not point out that there has actually been quite a bit of worthy post-Chromatics music from the various former members. In 2022, both guitarist Adam Miller and singer/guitarist Ruth Radelet put out records – an eponymous full-length for […]
When it rains, it pours, and the deluge of new singles in the last little while made it so that even an epic new track from deary didn’t even get a listen until this morning as I write this, fully five days after it was released. A tribute to guitarist Ben Easton’s dog – presumably […]
Bad news for anyone hoping to glean some insight into the timeline for She’s Green’s debut album from the release of their first new song of the year – namely me. But instead, let’s focus on what we did get: “Mettle” dropped last night and is a three-minute banger that reminds us the band has […]
I thought maybe something was lost in translation when I saw the title of Kurayamisaka’s sneak-released first live album kurayamisaka tte, doko? #6「くらやみざかより愛を込めてツアー」（kawasaki CLUB CITTA’), which dropped this morning with just a day’s advance warning. But no, the whole proper title of the release is as provided and translates to Kurayamisaka tte, doko? #6 ‘With […]
Every few years I go deep into a synthesizer rabbit hole – not just in terms of listening habits, but in exploring and playing the instruments (although my keyboard skills are laughably rudimentary at best). This time, the cycle was precipitated – literally – by the combination deep freeze and snowstorms that hit us at […]
