A stricter law against illegal downloading of media went into affect this week in Japan, meaning harsh punishments for those caught uploading OR downloading music, movies, TV shows, whatever. It will be interesting to see what the first big punishment to come out of this will be – a lot of people I know are…
Programming note! Next week marks my first week of temporary unemployment, and as a result I decided to go to this year’s South By Southwest music conference. Pretty excited, especially to pig out on tacos and see The-Dream in a church. Since I’ll be in Austin next week, though, expect only sporadic updates around here….
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqtf5TOr3Ac”] So Arashi went on a Fuji TV music show a few days ago and had some technical difficulties. The group’s pre-recorded vocals failed to play, forcing the group to gasp actually sing. This news comes from Japan Post who slapped the headline “Sound Equipment Failure Reveals Japanese Boy Band’s Atrocious Singing” which I don’t…
Up there? That’s the new seasonal flavor of Pepsi here in Japan, the stomach-churning “Strawberry Milk” flavor. I’ve yet to summon the courage to try it, but the very presence of the word “milk” on the soda wrapper has me buggin’ out. Just a terrible combination. Arashi “Meikyu Love Song” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_b5fgzCC34″] AKB48 grab all the…
Remember this feature? Music Station went on summer holiday for the last couple of weeks, but it’s back just in time for the middle of July. Arashi “まだ見ぬ世界へ” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tufJ2sExlgA”] Lady Gaga visited eternal-boyband SMAP’s show SMAP X SMAP recently, and Ms. Gaga thought it would be a cool idea to upload the footage of said…