Author: Kevin K

The vaporwave template has generally orbited to a broad but simple premise. The actual content varies, but the proverbial “aesthetic” remains the same – nostalgic, kitschy, far-removed yet completely familiar. These eccentricities can take many forms, sometimes with a political undertone, and others purely waxing affection for bygone eras and…

Andy Stott – Faith in Strangers It’s been a great month for music and all things new and music newsy. Andy Stott is here to reciprocate his 2012 expertly-crafted Luxury Problems, just in time for the brisk weather to condemn you to the foggy bar countertops and the dark end…

ClearSkies™ is brought to you by PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises to enhance your day-to-day experience. Every employee is given a free CD-ROM with our software to commemorate our 5th anniversary and are being distributed at a bargain value at local electronics stores and supermarkets. What kind of product is ClearSkies™? ClearSkies™…

Alice Glass knows how to effing party. In almost all of her photos, she’s seen with a cig disheveled between her fingers, her eye frequently dazed in the middle of her favorite eye shadow – if not hell-bent on putting out a fiery live show, sometimes to the point of…

Brought to you by a felt teddy bear playing the keyboard. Yukari Takasaki’s up to some shenanigans, involving taking shots of chocolate milk with baby bunnies and firing lasers at interstellar floral paper plates.

This week I’ll be going over my top ten most-played artists of the past month, according to last.fm., and ranting briefly about why they are where they are on my rank. Summer has officially disbanded as far as education is concerned, but seeing as the past month was august, there’s…

Though far from gaming’s most cherished soundtrack, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne isn’t one that should be ignored. However, that just might be exactly the problem. In a genre reigned by the compositional genius and thematic excellence of masterminds such as Nobuo Uematsu, the soundtrack’s possibly most unfortunate circumstance is that…

Sawa isn’t like most Japanese electropop idols. Instead of swimming in cutesy appeal and gaudy theatrics, she likes to go snapping pictures of ghosts in haunted mansions and go golfing with giraffes. She wore a ducky neck pillow on her head in one photo. She’s a little bit more Kyary…