Writer and indie music scene person, based in Tokyo. Author of Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground (Awai Books, 2016) / バンドやめようぜ！ (Ele-king books, 2017) and owner of Call And Response Records.
Ian (F) Martin
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Drencrom velocet synthemesc… as all the kids are saying lately.
I think I need anew videogame. I’m just feeling it.
My cat smells like lemonade
Ian (F) Martin
Ian (F) Martin
Of the recent (last 5 years) UK hype bands, Dry Cleaning are actually good.
Black Midi were very much not my thing but they won me over.
Season 3 Episode 5 of Arrested Development is 20 minutes of structurally perfect television that breaks all sorts of rules of how you’re actually supposed to write characters for TV. Of course it’s magnificent.
Vaguely alternative fame is passed on as a birthright in France.
OK, so the band every indie kid in Japan loves who I think sucks is Viagra Boys.
I got a warning on this month’s credit card bill, which I understand, but on the other hand it’s midnight and a week of work spans ahead of me, so a new world to escape into is really more a health intervention than an indulgence.
Watching Miu Mau and having a moment of tremendous and terrible pride at having finally released something by them. What. A. Band.
Ian (F) Martin
Just talking with a Tokyo friend about how @wrongsreversed.bsky.social is the best.
