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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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A Very Chocolate Day: Pop Chocolat
ByPatrick St. Michel April 15, 2010

“Lo-Fi Tech” quickly makes it clear that it’s an album opening track. A glance at Kyoto “girlie band” Pop Chocolat’s tracklisting for the recently released Trip mini-album confirms this fact, but such fact checking isn’t necessary here. The track opens with some fierce drum pounding before developing into an ever-developing piece of rock massiveness. More…

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Picture Says It All: Orland
ByPatrick St. Michel November 23, 2010

Look at the above image. This isn’t one of those random pics I sometime grab from Google Image Search when I can’t get anything else. The band Orland feature this image on their MySpace. It sums the group up perfectly. Which, OK, might seem a little to simple. Yes this is keyboard-heavy music, so a…

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New Half Mile Beach Group: “Baobab”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 31, 2015

One of the characteristics that has made Zushi project Half Mile Beach Group stand out in 2015 has been their approach to singing. On windswept numbers “Yankee” and “Twilight,” the voices at the center of the songs have been glazed with electronics, giving them an unearthly edge. New number “Baobab” takes it even further —…

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New Teen Runnings’ Video: “Make It Better”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 7, 2012August 7, 2012

Tokyo trio Teen Runnings will be releasing a CD version of last year’s Let’s Get Together Again – an LP that hit shelves when the group was still known as Friends – on August 8, featuring a few new songs. In advance of that release, the group have a new, surf-filled video for the song…

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Nothing Wrong With Sprawling Out: Bananafish
ByPatrick St. Michel February 2, 2011

Bananafish don’t intend to write music meant to soundtrack your next trip to Sandals – it just happens to be laid back enough to do just that. This trio, at least at first brush, lay down beach-resort grooves content to spend the day glued to a towel, sipping beer while watching the sunset. It’s not…

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New Itadaqi Featuring Tomobitch: “Caramel Banana Combination”
ByPatrick St. Michel November 4, 2015

Food has played a central role in the music of many Japanese artists, from Cibo Matto to Shonen Knife to…well, many more (one more!). Tokyo rapper Itadaqi (formerly Canopies And Drapes) teams up with Tomobitch for their own entry into the culinary playlist with “Caramel Banana Combination,” a squiggly electronic bouncer devoted to the pair…

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