WANIWANIPANIC by The Vanities

Fans of sweet, saccharine-laced indie sounds must give the newly released compilation, Soon V.A., a listen.  It comes to us from Japanese online indie label ano(t)raks.  The comp was released on September 14 and appears to only be available digitally at the label's Bandcamp.  The Vanities are a duo out of Japan and their tune, 'Waniwanipanic,' is a definite

DO WHAT'S RIGHT BY YOU by The Routes

Do What's Right By You

I have just stumbled upon this trio out of Japan and am now trying to get my hands on some more releases with no success (yet!).  You're going to listen to this and swear that it came out of the 60's garage scene, but these guys are around today and they're putting out some genuine blues, garage/psych, 60s British invasion revival sounds that makes you wonder whether they've listened to anything in the past 4 decades.  Give the song 'Do