Tag Archives: Japanese Breakfast
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REVIEW: Belle and Sebastian makes the ‘world to stop’ at the Fox Theater
Belle and Sebastian perform at The Fox Theater in Oakland on June 25, 2018. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. OAKLAND — Belle and Sebastian had the crowd dancing Monday at the Fox Theater. The Scottish outfit, led by frontman Stuart Murdoch, brought tons of energy and made the most of its visit to…
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Noise Pop REVIEW: Japanese Breakfast and Jay Som a great match onstage
Photos: Paige K. Parsons SAN FRANCISCO — With some artists, what you hear on the album is what you hear in concert. It’s either because their songs are written to be played live or because it just works for both; there’s little difference between the two. Others, however, rearrange…
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Kyle Kohner’s Top 50 Albums of 2017: 50-41
Welcome, to my five-part series counting down what I believe to be the 50 best albums of 2017. I listened to an insane amount of new music during my first year as a staff writer with RIFF, nearly 150 album releases, in fact. With that in mind, when narrowing down all…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Japanese Breakfast’s somber voyage through intergalactic turmoil
Brief, sugared and lustrous, yet heartrendingly mournful, Michelle Zauner’s Psychopomp — a tribute to her late mother, was a surprisingly sublime debut. Under the moniker Japanese Breakfast, Zauner follows up her 2016 sleeper success with a more experimental project, Soft Sounds From Another Planet. Soft Sounds From Another Planet Japanese Breakfast…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery
Every week there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We’ve pooled our resources to find some of…