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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 Chelmico: “Player”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 21, 2018

Chelmico recently released their first full-length major label album Power, and it’s a solid shift towards bigger places for the duo. Most importantly, not much has changed now that they are on unBorde from recent EPs and a self-titled 2016 debut album. They still create upbeat genre-skipping exercises anchored in hip-hop, channeling Rip Slyme, Halcali…

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It Was Spoken: Owtn’s Owtnism
ByPatrick St. Michel February 17, 2015

As far as fringe genres go, “poemcore” feels like it has stronger legs than a lot of the ideas that congeal into trend pieces. That’s even if it can be considered a style all of its own, though — “poemcore” is music where the vocals are spoken, like a poem, and that seems to be…

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New Daoko And Yasutaka Nakata: “Bokura No Network”
ByPatrick St. Michel November 19, 2018

Wherein two artists having very strange 2018’s come together. Daoko fronted the biggest song of 2017, bursting onto a huge stage all of a sudden. The downside of that — and especially of said arrival being a ballad not really representing how you’ve sounded up until that point — is it becomes really tough to…

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New LLLL: “You”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 11, 2014

Well here’s an exciting collaboration: Tokyo’s LLLL will release their proper full-length album through Zoom Len’s, the American label co-run by Meishi Smile and responsible for releasing music by the likes of i-fls, Yoshino Yoshikawa and more. The album, Paradice, can actually be heard in its entirety right now here, but I’ll hold off on…

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Sweet Hit: Beignet’s (Nor And YUC’e) Mint Comet
ByPatrick St. Michel September 4, 2017September 5, 2017

The trajectory of all things “kawaii” follows a predictable route. Anything tagged as such is embraced initially, both by artists and fans, who flock to all things pastel and bubbly and somewhat unsettling in their radiance. Then, as all trends do, everyone associated with whatever the “kawaii” field are get uneasy about it, and try…

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New The Mari On The Beach: Play Music, Sing A Song
ByPatrick St. Michel May 14, 2012June 17, 2012

Osaka’s The Mari On The Beach put out a new album online last week called Play Music, Sing A Song, the follow-up to last year’s lovely lo-fi pop collection Get Out Of Making Music (advice they did not follow, thankfully). This album moves a bit away from the guitar-pop that dotted The Mari’s 2011 album,…

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