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Controlled Karaoke: Marching Band Performs Perfume’s “Laser Beam”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 7, 2011

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Or658kO8eI”]

Headline says everything, nothing else needed.

Via the Perfume City Twitter feed.

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Controlled Karaoke: I Got To See The Arashi Textbook, Nippon No Arashi
ByPatrick St. Michel September 23, 2010

Nippon No Arashi, the new textbook about the members of Arashi going around Japan and teaching students about Japanese cultures, made it to school libraries this week. And only school libraries, because Arashi fans seem to be going absolutely bonkers that they can’t get a copy of this book for themselves. Unlike all of those…

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New Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: “Fashion Monster”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 21, 2012September 21, 2012

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has a new single out in October, called “Fashion Monster,” but the full song and video came out late tonight (at a good time for Western audiences HMMMMMMMMM). The clip, above, merges The Adam’s Family with Visual Kei…and a bunch of other great imagery one expects from Kyary with each new video….

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Controlled Karaoke: Guy Plays Mario Brothers Music On Violin
ByPatrick St. Michel June 23, 2010

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcFQquHipE&hl=en_US&fs=1&] My favorite part of the comments for this video are the few people who say “a few errors, but still good.” Thanks for being the heads of video game soundtrack quality control guys.

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Station To Station: Music Station For May 11, 2012 Featuring Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, NYC And Kaela Kimura
ByPatrick St. Michel May 10, 2012

I haven’t been sleeping much this week, so pardon me if this week’s Station To Station ends up being a bit briefer than others. It helps that I’ve written about some of these songs before. Gonna get at least…eight hours of sleep tonight! NYC “Haina!” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowDcaiDN0E”] Surprisingly, this new song from unloveable scamps NYC sounds…

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New Daoko: “Bang!”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 15, 2016

Ambition is a hell of a thing, but certain artists just really need to chase it. Daoko built her reputation on mystery — she was a wise-beyond-her-years high school rapper who never showed her face and took Sotaisei Riron’s tone of a teenager scribbling personal poetry during a boring math class and applied it to…

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Sweet Vacation Cover Ne-Yo: “Because Of You”
ByPatrick St. Michel December 29, 2009

Nestled between some awkward electro-dance covers of “Sweet Child Of Mine” and “Walk This Way” (with a passing take on KT Tunstall) lies one of the most subversive cover songs I’ve heard from any artist this year. I’m thinking it’s totally unintentional: the it-always-has-to-be-this-way-doesn’t-it, boy-producing-girl-singing duo Sweet Vacation sing Ne-Yo’s “Because Of You” in a…

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