Nearly five years ago, we excitedly opened our first envelope to find music that would end up forming a long-distance and continuing bond with today's featured artist. For those not familiar, Tomihira is the aptly-named music project of San Francisco, California songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Dean Tomihira, who we first reviewed in March 2006 with a track from his incredible full-length album Play
Thursday, local post-punk/shoegaze label Vibraphone Records celebrates four new releases from Foxtail Somersault , Vir , Astral , and Tomihira at Bottom of the Hill (8pm, $12). About Vibraphone, from their website : Vibraphone Records is a San Francisco-based record label shining a light on some of the most promising indie, dream-pop and shoegaze artists. The label started in early-2007 with the intent of bringing together talented and diverse artists to forge a singular, identifiable sound. Since it's inception Vibraphone [...]
Here we are at the end of another standard weekend away from various responsibilities... but this is no ordinary Sunday evening by any measure. If you are a regular visitor to our little corner of the music-blog world, you probably already know there are a handful of artists who are acquainted with/adored by MML and are updated frequently. Today's re-featured musician just so happens to be a
Back in the earliest part 2006, we received our very first music care package from San Francisco, California based artist Dean Tomihira. Contained within the bubble wrapped envelope he sent was a copy of an amazing 2005 full length release titled Play Dead. That CD ended up traveling with me, almost immediately following it's arrival, over to London, UK for a second visit with MML editor and
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San Francisco, CA Tomhira made a video for this track last year - click here to watch it on YouTube. "World Class" Tomihira on MySpace
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Recent indie artists that I like. They a mix between near dreamcore ( Tomihira , Bel Auburn ) to bunch of Oneida-esque sound ( Supersystem , Chad VanGaalen ) and A solid punk from Australia ( Gallucci ). Yes the mix is a bit quirky and all mixed up. But they are solid new indie artists. And this is meant to introduce new artists. Click on them, if you like it, go see their webpage. Plus, you can ask Moka for nice smooth list. She has a nice one in the making. haaa ... [...]
A perfect opening band for fall. San Francisco based Tomihira is a three piece band who just released their first published album. It's the kind of charming first release. Simple, clean, well executed and honest. It's all that is perfect with shoegazer with cool vocal just before it transforms into dream pop. Think of them as Cocteau Twins of our decade. I hope they are that big. Somebody sign up this band quick! (Maybe Absolute Kosher ?) Don't forget to buy their self published CD from their webpage. Support new cool band people. [...]
THIS WEEK'S FINDS week of July 30-Aug. 5 "Gone Gone Gone" - John Ralston This one may start like just another weepy, acoustic ballad, but John Ralston has much more up his sleeve than weepy balladry, of the sort often practiced by the current pack of jam-band-inspired troubadours. First, when the full band kicks in after 19 seconds, the strength of the original melody becomes surprisingly evident. What sounded tinkly and precious with just an acoustic guitar playing now sounds vigorous and involving. I think it's the drummer in particular: that just [...]
Untitled Document In the days when I used to get CD's all the time and didnt have the hastle/blessing of an MP3 player, I would just put a CD in an listen to the whole thing. Now Im constantly looking for the next song to put before the one Im [...]
Tomihira hail from the San Francisco Bay area, and have been getting rave reviews for their recent album, Play Dead. They do remind me a little bit of Joydivison, and have been likened to them as well as The Cure, Radiohead and various great bands of shoegaze fame. Indeed as I write this I hear the Cure influence in the song "Maddy and Josh" which is currently playing on my computer, and I like it. "Heartbroken", "Sad", "Melancholic" and "Dreamy" are all words that have been used to describe them, and even "Erotic". [...]
The press one-sheet that came in the mail with Play Dead-the self-released new album from San Francisco band Tomihira-pegs it “indie space pop,†but I don't know about that designation: when I think “space pop,†I think "wall of sound"; I think endless numbers of effects and distortion and reverb; I think, “It’s time to [...]
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