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I made my first visit to Nagoya, Japan a few weeks ago, but only saw their Shinkanesen station and Legoland Japan, situated on the city’s port lands. There’s no point to this besides to say “hey go look at my holiday pics” but also that if local shoegaze ambassadors Blurred City Lights had released their […]
I appreciate that it seems like new singles from some bands seem like automatic posts – because they basically are – but I’d like to point out that it’s a really exciting time in the genre because there are these new acts who are putting out really great music and taking the sound forward, and […]
Since COVID stopped Wire’s 2020 tour in support of Mind Hive in its tracks, there doesn’t seem to have even been the discussion of the band returning to any kind of ongoing activity. Colin Newman has kept busy with Immersion, Matthew Sims has a new project in Memorials, and Graham Lewis put out his first […]
Just over a year ago in my main IG account, which is largely dedicated to old concert pics, I dug up a shot of the English outfit playing our blogger-assembled SXSW day show in Austin, Texas way back in 2007. At the time they were touring on the back of their 2006 kraut-psych-space-rocking self-titled debut, […]
Hello – here with a quick check-in as I recover from vacation and try to get re-acclimated to life at home. As a band, Ride are pretty online with a regular presence on all your usual platforms and channels, but did you know they had a Bandcamp? No, not the rideox4.bandcamp.com site that offers all […]
It’d be an overstatement to say the spirit of Ryuichi Sakamoto has followed me around on this trip – I’ve actually had very little opportunity to listen to music – but it is noteworthy that I saw the seeing sound, hearing time installation featuring his work at Hong Kong’s M+ gallery, and then when record […]
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 […]
