[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db7Kqew-pVI”] So in Japan there is a children’s TV show on NHK about chairs who talk and do people stuff. It’s cute, pretty fun and also a surprisingly solid way of learning enough Japanese to talk to a toddler. It’s great, and they recently did a Perfume homage so they gained even more points in…
She’s the one on the left of what appears to be a sandwich board Joining other kid’s TV show legends turned musicians like Oscar The Grouch and Steve from Blue’s Clues (seriously, he’s pals with the Flaming Lips) will soon be one of the characters on Japanese English-centric educational jam Eigo De Asobo, Jenny aka…
Some upfront honesty: Lullatone are my favorite Japanese band going and new releases from them make me giddy to a point where objectivity completely melts away. I’m smitten with their self-described “pajama pop,” a child-like sound melding the conventional (guitar, keyboard) with the imaginative (drumming on bath water, snores). In a decade featuring scores of…