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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 […]
After the initial dissolution of Tokyo Shoegazer in 2013, three of the remaining members opted to continue playing together and formed a new band, CQ, that was less constrained by genre – after all, when you’re called Tokyo Shoegazer, some assumptions on the part of the listener are inevitable. As drummer Hiroshi Sasabuchi told The […]
I do like it when my personal Instagram, wherein I share pics from my ever=aging concert photo archives, intersects with this blog because it usually means I can save myself some writing on one end or the other. Case in point – today’s release of Velocity Girl’s UltraCopacetic, which revisits and rejuvenates their 1993 debut […]
Every once in a while I remember that I will be seeing Hammer Head Shark not once but twice in a couple months when they come to town as part of Next Music From Tokyo, and get super-excited. More excited than my single post on the band to date would imply. So to properly increase […]
Patron saint of anonymous Asian bedroom shoegazers Parannoul sort-of-surprise-released his new album Sky Hundred this past Saturday. I say “sort-of” because he’d hinted at it via his socials this past week, showing screen shots of tracklistings, and he’d released a new single from it this past May; sure, it could have been a one-off, but […]
Deary have been canny enough about the timing of their new releases that I don’t think, “oh I just posted them a couple weeks ago” – it’s been over a month since they unveiled their last new single “The Moth” so I’m totally fine with shining the spotlight on the follow up, “Selene”. Of the […]
Tokyo’s Moon In June may have been born into shoegaze – their 2020 EP 海鳴り doesn’t spare the reverb, distortion, or glide guitar – but they’ve grown through 2022’s extended player Evergreen towards last year’s debut full-length ロマンと水色の街 (“Romance and Soft Blue City”) to reside in a neighbourhood where power pop and dreampop intersect, and […]
