[Artist Discovery] Pixie Lott

Caught her performance on my telly tonight. Loved it. If she has a full album out, I may want to buy it.

Bought both!

[Artist Discovery] The Ting Tings

I caught their SXSW performance on the iConcert channel. What I like about them:

1. Their lyrics don't make me cringe at all, in fact they're rather wonderful
2. The girl singer is not obsessed with her 'assets', instead she was really just into singing the songs (you may understand  this relief if you've spent so much time listening to songs you like being sung by half-naked or even quarter-naked girls and you can't recommend them to any of your family members, like I did)
3. I dunno much about music so I think the sounds are deceptively simple, but anyone who can make songs that catchy and interesting with only two major instruments must be really talented
4. I can't believe she'd actually sing that ah, ah, ah, ah thing all the way through instead of putting it on a digital loop like everyone else does nowadays. It's impressive.

And of course it's my favourite in the set.

Bought the digital album!

[Rock Your Day] SPYAIR - Last Moment

I found them in the weekly Korean music chart show, of all places. I don't know what they're doing in M-Countdown, but their image during the performance lulled me into thinking that they were a k-band. Well, I was listening to the 4 Non Blondes in my laptop at the time, while watching M-Countdown on TV, while burning files to a DVD...hey, multitasking is the mode of the future~

Anyway, the words filtered through my headphones enough to make me realize, wait a minute...these are japanese words I'm hearing. So I listened and thought they're pretty good. Then, as is the natural progression of how these things are done, I went on the net and googled them and was pretty pleased that they're indeed j-rockers and not a k-band belting out their japanese release.

They've been around for quite sometime, although I haven't got to finding out whether the band still has the same members or they've been playing that musical chair sorta thing like all the other jrock bands I've liked previously (i.e. disbanding > forming new bands > shuffling members around as they pleased. I mean, look at the updates in this blog today...this band and that band are disbanding, what even *facepalm*).

Here they are: SPYAIR with a theme song from an episode of Bleach, my (only) favourite shonen manga~

[Rock Your Day] Kitade Nana - Kibou no Kakera (JROCK)

I want to start this feature post coz I've always wanted to get to know all the interesting music out there in this genre.

And also coz there're so so many good bands that I know nothing about simply because they're not mainstream enough to catch my attention.

It doesn't help that they disband and regroup every 2 months. Okay, I exaggerate, but what I mean is... it's very difficult to keep track of them.

I'm gonna do this by randomly picking any group that pops up in my search whose songs I like.