[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIzPi4JcJ84″] The audio seems kinda weird and doesn’t always match up with the video…but whatever, here’s Jim O’Rourke singing an Enka song.
Look, the song here is just OK…for a phoned-in movie tie-in, its better than most but that’s a lousy standard to aspire to. It glitches and pops like a possessed SNES, and dares to be fizzier than, say, Perfume’s “Mirai No Museum.” The video, though, is great as ever. It’s some strange sports match between…
Point one – Sakanaction, despite being a very “serious” sounding band, deserve credit for tending to make goofy-fun videos. Just look at how much of a ball Ichiro Yamaguchi is having at the end. OK, the actual song – Sakanaction’s latest single is now out (and has a video), so let’s talk a little about…
The end of the year is creeping up on us, which means it is time to start thinking about the memorable albums of the past 12 months. One of the bigger surprises came courtesy of Tokyo rock outfit Passepied, who have been a perpetually pushed “next big thing” for the last few years, though none…
Sharing a “short version” of anything feels like cheating…why not just wait a week until the full video hits YouTube…but we’ve bent the rules for Perfume before so why deviate from that path. “Flash” is the first non-single to emerge in the run-up to Cosmic Explorer, out worldwide in about two weeks, and finds the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peGDktz-bNY&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Japan shocked Cameroon 1-0 in the World Cup the other day, pushing the country’s World Cup fever from “lukewarm” to “HOT HOT HOT.” As numerous friends have told me, not many folks here were very excited for the Japanese National Team’s trip to South Africa because they seemed to not stand much of a…
