Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has a new single out in October, called “Fashion Monster,” but the full song and video came out late tonight (at a good time for Western audiences HMMMMMMMMM). The clip, above, merges The Adam’s Family with Visual Kei…and a bunch of other great imagery one expects from Kyary with each new video. As for the song…well, hopefully I can write more later, but first few plays through this sounds really nice. The 8-bit bloops Yasutaka Nakata works in are great. For now, enjoy a man dressed as a rabbit rocking out on a turntable-equipped keytar.
very very smallアップロード者 techmanimoto. – ウェブ動画で有名人の動画をもっと見ましょう。 Easily the most painful 11 seconds of video I’ve seen all week. Poor dude! Lets get to the songs this week… aiko “向かいあわせ” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR1mpvXfu-s&hl=en_US&fs=1&] aiko seems to do one type of song and only one type of song – the piano-driven track that’s not quite a ballad but also…
20. The Brixton Academy “Two Shadows United” The Brixton Academy have always played the role of overly earnest nightclub crawlers, guys who love evenings out on the town but also aren’t good at bottling up all those icky emotions, prone to letting them shoot out like just-uncorked champagne. Whereas Kido Yoji distracts from his ennui…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1griNPsY0U”] Look at that puppy!!! Onto the music. SHINee “JULIETTE” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT-iBCuoNS4″] I’ve slowly realized I never write anything positive about the K-Pop boy bands outside of a still-pretty-dismissive “better than KAT-TUN.” Whether because I still harbor deep-seeded hate for anything that even remotely reminds me of N’Sync and by extension elementary school, or because I’m…
AKB48 “桜の栞” – Rejoice rejoice! We’re only a few figure skating finals away from Winter being over with. That means warmth! And flowers! And, in Japan, cherry blossom season. Which also means it’s time for Japanese artists to release songs about the country’s prettiest part of the calendar year. The small mercenary army of AKB48…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSVZ0e4ZZg”] So here we are…Polysics have become the Japanese OK Go. I think to some degree it was inevitable – the band have been spazzing out new wave music for more than a decade now, and it seems tough (to me at least) to maintain such a head-rattling pace for that long. It’s all been…
Last week, an article in in the London Evening Standard made the rounds in the Japanese music Twitter-world, one titled “Tokyo Is Trending: The Rise Of J-Pop.” The piece details the apparent “trend” of Japanese pop music and fashion gaining traction in London, pulling out the usual array of “Harajukus” and “Lolitas” that litter any…