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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Japanese dreampop and shoegaze as a scene is hardly dour, but Kyoto’s MoritaSaki In The Pool bring an extra level of fun and whimsy to things without getting too twee or saccharine. That, and their dual boy-girl vocals from Riku Ishihara and Natsumi Heike, is their unique selling proposition and looks to be in full […]
Ride have had a busy year touring their new record Interplay since it dropped at the end of March, so far covering the UK, North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and with another run of UK and US dates coming this Fall – and that’s not covering another North American run at the very start […]
