While most of the kids around me grew up listening to Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and B2K, I spent a good majority of my life growing up and listening to Japanese rock, hip-hop, and ska music. When I realized how out of my way I had to go in order to get my fix of Japanese music, (either by driving at least 10 miles away to an exclusive foreign music store or doing it the old-fashioned way and having CDs shipped over from Japan with ridiculous shipping fees), I eventually gave in and started listening to the bands and names everybody knew on MTV’s TRL. So you can imagine when I heard about this, it tasted almost as good as my mama’s homemade cooking. Ear to the Ground: Tokyo is an exclusive collaboration between the LimeWire Store and New York-Tokyo. The LimeWire Store has an exclusive Ear to the Ground series of free, yeah I said it, free digital music compilations spotlighting a different city for each release and the newest installment will be featuring Tokyo. New York-Tokyo has selected a group of artists that represent the current progressive music scenes of Tokyo; tastemakers and trendsetters within their scenes from their sense of fashion to the artwork on their album covers. Watch out now, LimeWire is goin’ global. Domo Arigatou!

For more info, check out: http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/eartothegroundtokyo/

via Saeko Oishi, 26 December 2009 10:24am | 1 |