Controlled Karaoke: Ultraman Meets “Thriller,” Acid Trip Ensues
Just…wow. Good job Japan. You can stop the video at the 2:20 mark, the monsters stop dancing at that point.
(Via Japan Probe)
Just…wow. Good job Japan. You can stop the video at the 2:20 mark, the monsters stop dancing at that point.
(Via Japan Probe)
Wow, two shoegaze-ish tracks in one week, savor this. What makes Shelling’s “Lake To Love” stand out is that it isn’t striving to sound pretty. Though, it does have moments of beauty – the female vocals, mainly, graze over this song just right, left untouched for the most part to add a touch of loveliness…
I do not have a real rooting interest in this year’s Super Bowl…the closest I come is seeking vague revenge against Seattle for beating my favorite team a couple weeks ago, although really I’m still just more depressed about how they bobbled that game away gahhhhhh…which has freed up plenty of time to do other…
This past summer, I watched Sakanaction play to a packed baseball stadium just outside of Tokyo, going on before Radiohead at one of Japan’s biggest music festivals. It’s not like I needed confirmation that Sakanaction are a big rock outfit in their home country — I’d already heard their songs countless times on TV, or…
I’ve been trying to find decent Japanese hip hop for a long-ass time now, but it’s no easy task despite the genre sorta sitting out in the open. The mainstream music establishment doesn’t embrace hip hop as much as they try to appropriate, giving artists songs with some light rhyming or maybe throw a turntable…
Netlabel Maltine Records has always taken cues from J-Pop, but in 2012 they seem to be hosting more and more music sounds like proper pop rather than simply inspired by it. The title track to Avec Avec’s Oshiete EP was one of his most streamlined tracks yet, while later in the year several Maltine artists…
#20 Cicada Formula It’s easy to recreate the past, as no shortage of Japanese bands borrowing from ’80s city pop and ’90s acid jazz have shown in recent years (and, really, globally…this is all Daft Punk’s fault). Cicada’s earliest work slid in nicely to this safe but oftentimes overly familiar space. But Formula decided to…