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Station To Station: Music Station For August 20, 2010 Featuring AKB48, Cocco And Ton Ton Tomato-Chan

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YVuqLKvMAc”] China might have leap-frogged Japan economically this week, but the Land Of The Rising Sun remains number one when it comes to pumping out sickeningly cute videos. Move over AKB48, Tomato-Chan trumps you big time. Speaking of… AKB48 “Heavy Rotation” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znOcsdxUUo”] I’ve already explored the creepier aspects of “Heavy Rotation,” so how about we…

Station To Station: Music Station For September 16, 2011 Featuring AKB48, EXILE And Ayumi Hamasaki

ByPatrick St. Michel

Oh man, a jumbo-sized Music Station this week. Featuring all the heavy hitters. Buckle in folks. AKB48 “Flying Get” WATCH HERE See the logo at the top of this page? That’s the new design/slogan for the “Cool Japan” campaign, the Japanese government’s attempt to spread soft power via culture. Basically, they want Japanese media, like…

Controlled Karaoke: Perfume Song To Be Featured In Cars 2, Fulfill Dream Of Trio Being In The Same Vehicle As Larry The Cable Guy

ByPatrick St. Michel

At long last the worlds of J-Pop and heart-tugging CGI movies collide – Tokyo Hive reports a song by Hiroshima techno-pop trio Perfume will appear in Pixar’s Cars 2 both in the actual film and the soundtrack. The group’s track “Polyrhythm” will apparently appear in a scene where the main characters…who, if you haven’t been…

Make Believe Melodies’ Best Japanese Albums 2016: Honorable Mentions And Notable Releases

Make Believe Melodies’ Best Japanese Albums 2016: Honorable Mentions And Notable Releases

ByPatrick St. Michel

Half of this entry should be relatively self-explanatory — these are albums that, for various reasons, just missed our final cut. All of them are worth your listening time, and them falling just outside of the top 30 really shows just how much good music came out of Japan. The other, though, is a bit…

Controlled Karaoke: Brace For Creep-Pact Thanks To アイドリング!!!

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDFgD2uP4w&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Let’s get one thing clear right away…the above song isn’t remotely good. It’s some borderline Up With People group therapy bullshit loaded with enough pep to power an aircraft carrier. Imagine AKB48. Now imagine the players in AKB48 replaced with the Lots-o-Huggin’ bear from Toy Story 3. Now imagine those bears exploding, and the…

Station To Station: Music Station For March 18, 2011 Featuring FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, NYC And CHEMISTRY

ByPatrick St. Michel

Before we get into the weekly music mayhem, one note. In the face of the catastrophes that hit Japan one week ago, a lot of J-Pop artists have stepped up and done all sorts of amazing stuff to help out the victims of these disasters. The likes of AKB48, GLAY and pretty much every Johnny’s…