Controlled Karaoke: Watch A Scene From Cars 2 Featuring Perfume
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2MEWNS3fQ”]
Title says it all…watch above.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2MEWNS3fQ”]
Title says it all…watch above.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eExLCyMR4eI&hl=en_US&fs=1&] J-Rock heavyweights Bump Of Chicken have a new single out, and it isn’t shy about telling you how to feel about it. “Happy” (featured above, ripped from some radio station I guess), follows last year’s surprisingly great “R.I.P.,” a song that managed to turn subdued guitar playing into a sweetly nostalgic bit of music…
When I first arrived in Japan I spent three days in Tokyo at an orientation for my new teaching gig. I attended a workshop about Japanese pop culture in an effort to become hip to life in Japan. Following an introduction to popular Japanese television, we came to the music portion of the lecture. The…
VIDEO HERE Something something critics miss the point of Perfume something something. Anyway, “VOICE” is a new Perfume single meaning you know exactly what it sounds like and you shall either love it or hate it. That said, the trio’s latest seems to be their weakest 2010 output yet. A bit misleading considering their last…
First Station To Station of 2012, rejoice rejoice! Been a long time since we have journeyed into this sketchy sonic territory, but Music Station doesn’t disappoint this week, giving us a surprisingly wide variety of J-Pop (and K-Pop!) to sample and eventually stick our tongues out at. Let’s get the rust off. Ikimono-gakari “いつだって僕らは” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGttchG98RI&ob=av3e”]…
I’m never ever home for Music Station, making my original intent of liveblogging the show seem like a total joke at this point. That means it’s time for a rebranding! From now until I stop being remotely social, I’ll be ignoring the actual Music Station program in favor of listening to the tracks being performed…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pzZ_IGQAg”] One of J-Rock heavyweight Bump Of Chicken’s strongest qualities, aside from a goof-tastic name, is their ability to convey a very specific emotion through their music. Read that last sentence literally – Bump do one feeling really well, and I’m not sure if they can come close to capturing other ones (joy, anger, stubbed-toe…