Hear A Little Of A New Perfume Song, “Point,” Now
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Listen to a little bit above.
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Listen to a little bit above.
VIDEO HERE Kaela Kimura appeared to turn on a corner on early-2010 song “You Bet!” Working mostly as a J-Pop sponge and absorbing whatever popular musical trends landed on the charts before, “You Bet!” stood out by not being chained to an existing Japanese sound. Six months later and out of the sky drops “Ring…
New single from one of the many electro-pop artists who got a stab at the mainstream in the wake of Perfume’s landscape-shifting album GAME…and one of the many to recede from the spotlight and end up on some tiny imprint once the market decided they only really wanted one future-pop group bumrushing the charts. Which…
Nippon No Arashi, the new textbook about the members of Arashi going around Japan and teaching students about Japanese cultures, made it to school libraries this week. And only school libraries, because Arashi fans seem to be going absolutely bonkers that they can’t get a copy of this book for themselves. Unlike all of those…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWiUm5rOup0″] Here’s a new track from The Insect Kids, the horn-assisted shambler “ASTRA.” The singing, like on previous Insect Kids’ singles, remains might unpolished and is either going to be alluring or a roadblock, though the female chorus sounds quite catchy. The appeal of “ASTRA” lies with the the manic instrumentation, a dizzy rush reminiscent…
The steady influx of Internet-centric producers into the ranks of J-pop has been exciting to watch…check the Maltine Girls’ Wave project, or Tofubeats getting to shine further with Lyrical School, or Schtein&Longer’s work with Especia…but one guy who deserves a bit more room to work is Avec Avec. The Osaka beatmaker (and one half of…
No blog is perfect. Especially one that generates zero revenue. Errors are bound to happen, and hopefully I can catch them sooner rather than later. So I’d like to take this post to point out that this post from last month requires a slight correction. Discussing Kumi Koda’s “Can We Go Back,” I completely failed…