Review: EeL’s For Common People/Halcali’s Tokyo Connection

ByPatrick St. Michel

Discussing pop music usually ends up being less a slippery slope and more like hiking up a waterfall. The act of just identifying “pop” can quickly turn into something contentious, one individual decrying the “vapid” works of Katy Perry before reminiscing about Green Day’s glory days. “Pop,” to many people, has become a bad word…

Feel Good Kicks: Halcali Featuring Your Song Is Good “Roman Hikō “

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPAVU89cgg”] I once brushed off Halcali as typical cutesy stupid J-Pop. Based on a very brief listen to the rap-pop duo’s 2010 album…well, the first track of it anyway…I decided I didn’t need to spend any significant time with this. Then a funny thing happened – karaoke. Two friends sang an endearingly goofy Japanese track…