New Perfume Video: “不自然なガール” Or “Artificial Girl”
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pPcaLhBjxQ&feature”] Indie kids take note…THIS is how you do 90’s punk-pop. Though I could live without Sand Beach Surf Coaster’s Rocket Power-ish imagery – aren’t there enough songs about the beach already?…everything else drips with California punk-pop perfection. Guitars drive ahead on only a few chords, making no room for cutesy stuff. Simple but effective…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEDKobNkkvA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] [Via Pitchfork]
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcfC7PCneQ”] Some ambitious YouTube uploader decided to show American children Japan’s holographic Vocaloid artist Hatsune Miku and film their reactions. Some notes: – “People go to see that? But she’s not even real????!!!” Yep. – “They had glowsticks and everything” really killed me for some reason. – These kids have the pop industry down pat,…
Moving at an appropriately frosted-over speed, Killing Boy’s “Frozen Music” lingers around so long it’s easy to slap one of the bigger critical cop-outs on it and just call it “boring.” This isn’t fair for two reasons – first off, it’s their song “Call 4 U” which really deserves that label, a meandering number where…
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