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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 […]
Thanks again to KEXP for being an unending fount of great content this Fall – this time, it’s The Chameleons who stopped in at the Seattle radio station’s studios during the west coast leg of their Strange Times tour this Summer. The played a generous six-song set with four of the Strange Times album tracks, […]
Mogwai are back with their first non-soundtrack new music since 2021’s As The Love Continues, and while they’ve yet to reveal specifics of their next album, we know that a) it’ll probably be out before their 2025 world tour kicks off in February – I’ll put my money on January 24 or 31 as the […]
It probably seems like deary get an automatic bye when it comes to making it onto my posting schedule, but it’s not like it’s not earned – the London duo have been on a winning streak since coming onto the scene at the start of last year, through last year’s delightful debut EP, and they’re […]
It feels like Men I Trust have been touring Untourable Album non-stop since it came out over three years ago – and why not? The stages they’re offered just keep getting bigger and though I saw them last at the very start of that run, there’s no reason to think they haven’t just gotten better […]
Fazerdaze’s return to active duty appears to be complete; following a post-Morningside retreat she took tentative steps back to music in 2022 with the Break! EP and a return to touring at home and abroad in 2023. This year, she committed to opening up the entirety of Pond’s North American tour this November, implying that […]
Seattle’s KEXP is making hay from the Summer touring schedule, welcoming New York’s DIIV into their studios for a four-song session and interview during their tour in support of Frog In Boiling Water (I caught the Toronto show at the start of August). Compared to their past works, Frog is far less immediate, eschewing easy […]
It’s impossible to get into the Japanese music scene even a little without encountering the world of idols, and by extension, alt-idols, which basically is the combination of idols with alternative music genres (see: Babymetal). It’s strange and fascinating and actually quite entertaining live – I saw Planet After The Rain at a shoegaze showcase […]
