You thought AFLAC wouldn’t milk the hell out of the popular “Maneki Neko Duck” song? Commercials for this terrifyingly cute concept are still going strong in Japan, as evidenced by the latest dose of dancing animals shilling insurance. Now the duck and cat entertain at a wedding. Watch below, and lets take bets on what…
Seeing a harp sitting on stage at Osaka’s small Sunsui venue Saturday night required a few moments to process. Joanna Newsom’s primary instrument makes sense in the context of an opera house or a Victorian garden party, but looked out of place in a darkened, beer-smelling underground club. It was like someone stole a prop…
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=KWwNiQ4GiGw&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I totally missed it, but √thumm made a video for their propulsive electro-jam “NEU!” back in December. Since I’m all about late news (or, more accurately, the band’s debut album was an absolute beast) I’m sharing it in all it’s psychy goffiness. The fuzzy yellow rabbit guy from the Coton album cover plays a…
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…