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Self-Promotion Plus: Reviewing MiChi’s Therapy For The Japan Times
Biggest musical surprise of the year so far? MiChi’s Therapy, which I reviewed in The Japan Times today. This is a great album, packed with energetic post-Perfume singles that conceals a forward-thinking edge most J-Pop…and, to be honest, a lot of the indier stuff in this country…lacks. I didn’t expect a fully formed album when…
Controlled Karaoke: Saturday Night Live Makes Fun Of American Otaku, Makes Me Look Nervously Into The Mirror
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtcgzOpplQ”] UPDATE: OK, appears NBC is really good at getting video pulled off the Internet, as the original clip I posted is gone. You can see a clip of the below here and above is another YouTube clip bound to be removed in the near future. Strangely, though, it seems the YouTube comments for both…
Station To Station: Music Station For August 19, 2011 Featuring SMAP, YUKI And Koda Kumi Somehow Topping Herself
A calm image before we embark on the terror below. Kanjani8 “ツブサニコイ” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ltV–Mkzr0″] Earlier this week, the founder of Johnny’s Johnny Kitagawa was attacked at his home, where he barricaded himself from his assailant until help could arrive. Now, we don’t condone violence around here even against people responsible for some of the worst music…
Preview A New Perfume Track Now: “Hurly Burly”
Perfume’s new single “Spending All My Time” comes out on August 15, but right now you can hear a sample of one of the other two songs that will come alongside it. This snippet of “Hurly Burly” takes the first verse and chorus and loops it, but what is there sounds very…intriguing. Eagerly awaiting a…
Controlled Karaoke: Ghibli Meets Death Metal
Finally, a way to enjoy the theme song to My Neighbor Totoro without surrendering any masculinity if your the type who obsess about that. Something called IMAGINARY FLYING MACHINES have put together something called Princess Ghibli which takes classic songs from Studio Ghibli and adds, primarily, two things: – power chords – guttural howling So…
Controlled Karaoke: BIEBS-KUN! Justin Bieber Goes To Osaka, Raps About
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTK2oM_pSkI”] Oh lord how did I miss this. I live an hour from Osaka, and the one weekend I decide not to go into the big city also happens to be the one weekend tween-heartthrob Justin Bieber happens to visit. Above you can see “Bieber-kun” stop by a morning television show, and below you can…