The Summer Sonic Festival, now entering its second decade of existence, might very well be the most disconnected music festival in all of Japan. Whereas the Fuji Rock Festival stockpiles dozens of domestic bands to compliment the various foreign acts playing, Summer Sonic mostly relegates Japanese acts to “opening” slots before noon. It’s the “international”…
What you see above would be the new bra introduced in Japan this week which doubles as a rice farm. Seriously, when this is the news exported to other countries, do you honestly wonder why people think Japan’s just a giant island of insanity? Onto the music! Mayo Okamoto “Sonomama no Kimi de Ite” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hax6v5GcB-w&hl=en_US&fs=1&]…
Wither the folks outside of Japan right now, because it’s Sakura season. For a very short period of time, the cherry blossoms around the country have bloomed into a very delicate and pretty white. It makes the bike ride to work a bit more tolerable. The folks at the Coca-Cola corporation want you to enjoy…
Right above this line of text is the reason I’m missing Music Station this week. For a bad Steven Seagal-DMX (redundant, I know) flick. Then I’m following that up with a Jersey Shore marathon. I’m total trash, I wouldn’t blame you if you never read this blog again. Anyway, lets listen to the artists featured…
Terribly named J-Hip-Hop group Funky Monkey Babys (no, really) recently went to China to perform, and thank God some Japanese show filmed this adventure. Now I know those Funky Monkey Babys can speak a sentence or two of Chinese! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s299dME0AE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] (Via Japan Probe)