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Controlled Karaoke: Japanese Duo Do Best Simon & Garfunkel Impression

ByPatrick St. Michel October 1, 2009

They also try out some tunes by The Stylistics and The Gypsy Kings. Dudes got the Garfunkel hair down, though.

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New Tofubeats: “(I Wanna) Hold”
ByPatrick St. Michel February 8, 2015

Man, Tofubeats is one occupied dude, though I’m not sure him being on a major label really changes just how busy he has always been. Anyway, he has a new EP…Stakeholder…out in March, and here’s the first taste. Acting surprised when Tofubeats changes his sound up from what he was doing a few months ago…

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Vacation Interrupted: Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs “Zero Comma, Irotoridori No Sekai”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 10, 2010

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RxYmYsa3T4&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] The still-bizarrely-named Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs have a new album out and, surprise surprise, also have a new video out. “Zero Comma, Irotoridori No Sekai” seems like one of the more bubbly songs the band have done, and it comes with an equally bouncy video full of bright colors and cloned band members….

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New Yunomi: “Robotic Girl” Featuring Nicamoq
ByPatrick St. Michel February 1, 2016

Sapporo-based “kawaii J-pop” project Yunomi has been making some of the bubbliest but also hardest hitting electro-pop in Japan, loaded up with cuddly signifiers but boasting a bounce right out of Maltine (which, hey) all aided by the airy vocals of Nicamoq (from idol duo BPM15Q). Newest cut “Robotic Girl” hops forward on syllable slices…

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What’s Indie-Popping: Juvenile Juvenile, Swahili Words And Radio Friends
ByPatrick St. Michel April 18, 2012

“In all honesty, its about time the rock kids got their forward-looking tear-it-up moment: the indie world of the past decade has been far too content to strum its way comfortably along, going nowhere. But one side deserves the other, and there’s every chance that during the next few years we’ll need more of that…

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New House Of Tapes: “Sleep Jam”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 17, 2015

Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has the perfect song to listen to before hitting the ol’ hay — if you fancy having nightmares for the rest of the night. “Sleep Jam” is a rumbling slow-mo number, where voices blur together over the central mass, and electric storms gather on the sides (or maybe that’s just the…

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New Sakanaction: “Shin Takara Jima”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 28, 2015October 28, 2016

1. Sakanaction’s music-video game remains near the top level of contemporary Japanese music, goodness gracious the bubble-era beauty of this. 2. It isn’t like Sakanaction went anywhere, but 2015 felt more like a celebration of the band’s rise up the rungs of the Japanese rock scene than…well, a glimpse of whatever was next. Mainly, the…

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