Category New Music

The Basics: Blue Angel

In case you’ve missed it, this week is Japan Week on Adobe and Teardrops. It’s just my small way of honoring the anniversary of the March 11th earthquake. Please donate a few dollars to the survivors. You probably woke up…

The Basics: Sambomaster

This week I’m featuring Japanese bands in an effort to maintain awareness for the recovery efforts in Northern Honshu (the main island of Japan.) The earthquake happened on March 11, almost a year ago. Please donate a few dollars to…

The Basics: the pillows

A year ago today, an earthquake ripped through Northern Honshu, the main island in Japan. It was followed by a devastating tsunami that took out many of the impoverished fishing villages and rural towns in the North. While the rebuilding…

FREE MUSIC: High Dive

High Dive is a queer punk band from Bloomington, Indiana. This shouldn’t be an especially shocking sentence in this day and age, and to most of you it probably isn’t. But here’s a question for you: how many openly queer…