Controlled Karaoke: Japanese Duo Do Best Simon & Garfunkel Impression
They also try out some tunes by The Stylistics and The Gypsy Kings. Dudes got the Garfunkel hair down, though.
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They also try out some tunes by The Stylistics and The Gypsy Kings. Dudes got the Garfunkel hair down, though.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGNPPU2DVr8&hl=en&fs=1&]
The mixtape occupies a weird space in music today. The most popular “mixtape” of the year belongs to The 6‘s own Drake…except it isn’t a DatPiff download, but rather an iTunes release that will set you back like $13 (well, that’s what I paid = / ). Elsewhere, people like Bastille have released mixtapes. I’m…not…
Been a lot of electronic-leaning posts on this here blog lately, and probably more to come. So let’s take a small breather from all those synths and bloops for pretty straightforward (but great!) rock and roll courtesy of Tokyo’s AAFAI. The band has a pair of songs that you can listen to here, and it’s…
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Japanese rock band Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs announced they are breaking up, according to a post made on their official web site on September 1. Lead singer Natsuko Miyamoto wrote the announcement, and also announced that she will carry on as a solo artist. As part of the post, the group posted one final…
Young Juvenile Youth have had a series of starts and stops to their career thus far. They gained momentum…and then kind of dropped off the grid for a second. They play a Hello-Kitty-themed park in Tokyo at a big Halloween show…and then are quiet. Well now the duo’s debut album, Mirror, arrives next month, and…