hotel mexico – Make Believe Melodies

Hotel Mexico have so much exciting news to share with the world today, that a cover of a song by Ed N.Stead (an artist who, based on a Google search, released one album) isn’t the most exciting...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/hotel-mexico-cover-ed-n-stead-under-consideration/

So this is sort of a big deal – three of the heaviest hitters in Japanese indie music today (which is to say, they are all signed to international labels of some sort) have collaborated on a so...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/hotel-mexico-jesse-ruins-and-sapphire-slows-team-up-for-yubiwa/

“Wolves Running Through The Desert,” the B-side to Hotel Mexico’s forthcoming Double Denim single, shouldn’t be such a slippery song to think about. “A Space In The Loveless Field,” t...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/new-hotel-mexico-wolves-running-through-the-desert/

This weekend, American dance-punk artist Pictureplane will play two Japanese shows this weekend, one in Tokyo on April 6 and one in Osaka on April 8. In advance of that, I wrote about Pictureplan...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/self-promotion-plus-writing-about-pictureplane-for-the-japan-times/

And at long, long last, Kyoto’s Hotel Mexico get some foreign love. The group have a new single coming out on Double Denim Records…who also put out Jesse Ruins’ first Western release…call...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/new-hotel-mexico-a-space-in-the-loveless-field/

A lot has changed for Tokyo’s CUZ ME PAIN label since they released their first compilation a few years back. AAPS called it a day, Jesse Ruins grabbed some blog love and got picked up by Captu...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/cuz-me-pain-preps-second-compilation-featuring-jesse-ruins-sapphire-slows-and-faron-square/

Booze has always been prevalent when I’ve seen The Brixton Academy live, the band popping open bottles of Champagne to share with the crowd or downing shots post-set. Yet their January 28 show ...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/live-review-the-brixton-academy-canopies-and-drapes-the-telephones-orland-and-hotel-mexico-at-shibuya-womb-january-28-2012/

30. Michiyo Honda “Paradise Lost” J-Pop remains an easy punching bag in 2011 because most of the criticism lobbed at Japanese mainstream music ring true. A large chunk of acts crowding the up...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/make-believe-melodies-top-50-japanese-songs-of-2011-30-21/

Heh heh…69. With that out of the way, looks like Hotel Mexico have gotten pretty comfy with Diesel. This is the second song by Kyoto’s premier chillwavers to appear on Diesel’s “Diesel:U:...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/new-hotel-mexico-we-are-69-years-apart-demo/

Hotel Mexico have teamed up with Diesel to…wait a sec, Diesel? The people who make jeans and goofy belts? I’ll bite my tongue and repeat the mantra “this is good for indie rock, this is goo...

https://makebelievemelodies.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/you-have-seven-days-to-legally-download-hotel-mexicos-dear-les-friends/