Perfume is a Japanese technopop group made of three girls, each one uglier than the next. Listen to them once, you’ll hate it. Listen to them twice, you’ll hate it. Listen to them a third time, and they will get stuck in your cerebral cortex and come back to haunt you every time your neurons [...]

I have listened to a fair share of Japanese rock in my life, but recently I have been obsessed with this song, titled “Koe (trans: voice)” by the Back Horn. The song is pure genius, with very heavy, catchy riffs, melodic leads and coal-truck-driving dynamics. While the music scene in the West has been sucked [...]

I absolutely love trivia. I especially love to learn about the origins of things, like where the expression “balls to the wall” came from, what movie Family Guy is referencing, etc.. So you can imagine  my excitement when I happened across The Planets Suite by composer Gustav Holst. I first learned about the work from [...]