J-pop vs. Metal | 00011
Tool 「Lateralus」 × Takako Minekawa 「1.666666 (Remix)」 × Pigface 「Kiss King (High High High)」 × Pizzicato Five 「Magic Carpet Ride (Bossa Nova 1998 Mix)」 × Deafheaven 「Please Remember」 × Kyary Pamyu...
View ArticleJ-pop vs. Metal | 00013
Death 「A Moment of Clarity」 × Momoiro Clover Z 「サラバ、愛しき悲しみたちよ」 (Farewell, Dear Sorrows) × Dio 「Rainbow in the Dark」 × Namie Amuro 「Hide & Seek」 × Sear Bliss 「The Eternal Quest」 × Lion Merry 「朝の流れ星」...
View ArticleShonen Knife | Top 10 Michie Songs
Happy Shonen Knife Day. It’s great that Shonen Knife has kept going for 30+ years and that is all due to main member and primary songwriter Naoko Yamano. Obvs. But for new fans of the band, and for...
View ArticleThe 2013 Post
I did not review a single new release in 2013, and didn’t even finish a top 10 before the end of the year. Both of these things are fine, because I am irrelevant as a real music writer. Which is also...
View ArticleTop 10 Rock Albums of the Late 90s
There is a narrative of the 90s now that after the death of Kurt Cobain, Rock fans’ only options were to either jump ship and get into Hip-hop and Dance music, accept whatever watered-down...
View ArticleShonen Knife | Overdrive
So I was listening to this record thinking about how it moves past the usual heavy Ramones influence when the news came about the passing of Tommy Ramone. Just a bummer that has to be acknowledged. But...
View Article2014 Did Not Exist
Posted in: x Posted in: RECORDS. Posted in: list10 Saluton, 久しぶりね？ Last year I promised (to myself, no one else really cares) a post every Wednesday. This is a full-on, objective failure that I feel I...
View ArticleRecent Projects
My 2014 Year End post did not really cut it as far as things I’ve been working on. It also included about a dozen things I plan on not doing again: running jokes that have stopped running, and were...
View ArticleShonen Knife | S/t
Shonen Knife Day. They got a new record out. I don’t have it yet. Next paycheck. But time marches on, and with so many horrible things in the world, there’s this band. It’s maybe kinda dumb that there...
View ArticleSome 2016 Videos
ことよろ。 I have been telling anyone who might’ve cared that I did not make a year-end list (entire site was down for a week and nobody said anything so it was a longshot but it’s what I do). I forgot...
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