Controlled Karaoke: Watch A Japanese Queen Tribute Band Do Their Thing, Get Laughed At

ByPatrick St. Michel

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xf4jmq_a-real-champion_webcam?additionalInfos=0a real championアップロード者 ropejapan2. – ウェブカムでもっといろいろな人と出会いましょう。 Let’s start by linking to one of Chuck Klosterman’s best articles ever, about tribute bands. Read it, then watch the video above of Freddie Eto & Queeness, a Japanese band that covers Queen songs and landed on some TV show recently. The band handles itself rather well – the…

Controlled Karaoke: Snoop Dogg Wants Japan To Know He’s Sorry

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMKjKyZ-lIo”] Famed rapper/reality TV star Snoop Dogg had some Japanese shows scheduled in the near future, but the promoter behind those performances apparently backtracked on half of the money. So the Dogg Father pulled the plug on those shows. Now, he wants his fans in Japan to understand why he canceled the live joints and…

Controlled Karaoke: Meet The Geriatric AKB48, OJS48

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WHkfR0nKFI”] Oh lord, this trend needs to be fenced in a bit. The massive success of ant-hill-like pop outfit AKB48 has inspired a plethora of spin-off groups, ranging from sorta expansion teams in other cities (Sendai, Osaka, etc.) to not-safe-for-work-named groups flipping the genders (Naked Boyz). Now comes the logical next step in either a…

Controlled Karaoke: AMWE Turns Blur’s “Girls And Boys” Into A Synth Orgy

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8uBPG-f1MQ”] AMWE gives us an updated take on Blur’s “Girls And Boys” by going back to 1985. Her version of the classic swamps the track in synths and makes it a whole lot busier if ya know what I mean. Below is the original. [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATWnH-yb6-o”]

Controlled Karaoke: I Got To See The Arashi Textbook, Nippon No Arashi

ByPatrick St. Michel

Nippon No Arashi, the new textbook about the members of Arashi going around Japan and teaching students about Japanese cultures, made it to school libraries this week. And only school libraries, because Arashi fans seem to be going absolutely bonkers that they can’t get a copy of this book for themselves. Unlike all of those…