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Station To Station: Music Station For September 16, 2011 Featuring AKB48, EXILE And Ayumi Hamasaki
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…
New Suiyoubi No Campanella: “Diablo”
Rapper-ish electro-pop-kinda group Suiyoubi No Campanella seem like the sort of music group that should be poised for a big mainstream breakout (recently signing to a major label helping fuel that vision), as they take a growing music trend (silliness and a lack of interest in genre borders mixed with honest emotion…see Tofubeats and Kyary…
Listen To A Little Bit Of A New Perfume Song, “Glitter,” Via A Kirin Commercial
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlHa0rs_4Q”] Perfume really love the fake fruit taste of Kirin, as they’ve gone and debuted another new song in a commercial for an adult beverage. Following “Laser Beam,” “Glitter” can be heard a bit in the above ad. Listen above, and hopefully soon a full stream of the song will appear.
Perfume Unveil JPN Art, Tracklist UPDATE Now With Full Video For “Glitter”
Yep, that’s it, right up there. No Triangle I tell ya what. More interesting, the tracklist for JPN has been revealed and based on the singles included…basically, all of them since 2010…this album looks like it will almost certainly be good. Could have done without the bad AKB stab though! For us around here, the…
Station To Station: Music Station For February 25, 2011 Featuring Arashi, Aiko And Keisuke Kuwata
This week’s episode of Music Station a.k.a. “the show where we hear the newest Johnny’s singles” comes in a slightly abbreviated form. Whereas the typical weekly showcase features five or sometimes six performers, the February 25 edition boasts only four. Bad news to rabid J-Pop fans and the army of teenage girls who tune in…
Make Believe Melodies’ Top 20 Albums 2013: Full List
Here’s the final list of this blog’s favorite Japanese albums of 2013. You can read more detailed blurbs for numbers 20 through 11 here, and 10 through 1 at MTV Iggy. This blog will have periodic updates during the next two weeks…basically whenever anything noteworthy happens…so enjoy the rest of the year, and thanks for…
