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THE EPOCHS – OPPOSITE SIDESAnother great band out of Brooklyn, The Epochs are making music that sounds like what Justin Timberlake would be doing if he had skipped his Mickey Mouse Club and Boy Band origins and simply focussed on creating catchy falsetto driven pop songs. Opposite Sides is a gorgeous, rambling track that seems to head out in five different rhythmic and thematic directions over the course of its 4 minute span, jumping between fuzz box dance beats, quiet psychedelic digressions and sweet ethereal harmonies.
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For some time now, I have been on the lookout for examples of Japanese street art. The uncanny means by which Japan adapts Western culture, reprocesses it and then spins it out as something altogether hyperreal, combined with the ever-prevalent superflat movement suggested that there must exist something extraordinary in the darker corners of the Tokyo streets.
So it was great to read PingMag’s recent piece on The Ghetto, a former love hotel in Shin-Okubo that has been converted into a skater shop/graffiti space. The article also provided links to …

I am fairly convinced at this point that the best places to find art in this city are on the walls of the abandoned laundromat at the corner of Main Street and 14th and the equally vacant warehouse at Quebec St. and 2nd (with a few scattered treasures to be found in between).

The video for “Alice”, the first release from Moby’s forthcoming album ‘Last Night’, is directed by Andreas Nilsson, whose seemingly prolific, eclectic and often disturbing oeuvre includes work with The Knife, Soundtrack of Our Lives and Love is All.

Strains of psychedelic pop goodness ooze out from the seams of this ditty called “Stranger” by UK band Sunny Day Sets Fire. A Remix EP that includes collaborations with CSS, Diplo and Baron Von Luxxury (the latter’s take on the track “Brainless” is well good) is due out on Feb 26th with a full length to follow in the spring. In the meantime, more tunes can be found on their site and mySpace page.

In one of the most blatant epoch incongruities since Spartacus’s Rolex-wearing Roman, Australian artists, The Glue Society have rendered satellite photographs of various Biblical events as though seen via Google Earth. Awesome.

My latest home recording: a cover of TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me” complete with southern drawl and country twang.
More personal musical sojourns may be found here.