Controlled Karaoke: Marching Band Performs Perfume’s “Laser Beam”
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Or658kO8eI”] Headline says everything, nothing else needed. Via the Perfume City Twitter feed.
New Salyu: “青空”
Call me cynical, but this sounds like the label-mandated “hit” Salyu probably would have to release following the staggering experimentation of her Salyu X Salyu project with Cornelius. Whereas that album remains one of 2011’s better surprises, this new song finds Salyu returning to her singular past, a near ballad full of strings and shuffling…
Station To Station: Music Station For June 24 Featuring KARA, L’Arc～en～Ciel And Atsuko Maeda
Before we jump into this week’s platter of pop, a few more thoughts on perfume444. Earlier this week, dude met Perfume and basically had all his dreams come true. I blathered on about how he stood out as a beacon of honesty in an online world of shitty shitty irony, but I did a thought…
Controlled Karaoke: Perfume Meets perfume444
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj0LPfbwdrw”] Remember perfume444? For a split second a few months ago, the dude who recorded videos of himself geeking out about Japan’s premier techno-pop Pixie Sticks Perfume became a slight meme for a “creepy” video he did. This resulted in a series of videos that, honestly, oozed with a type of earnestness that barely exists…
Station To Station: Music Station For June 17 Featuring KARA, KinKi Kids and Miwa
Vancouver Canucks fans appear to be the AKB48 geeks of the hockey world, caring about something that isn’t really all that important to an insane degree. I’d love to see the otaku turn Akihabara into a smoldering apocalypse. Anyway, before we dive into this week’s feature, spend some time with Ian Martin‘s and James Hadfield‘s…