Station To Station: Music Station For July 22, 2011 Featuring Kis-My-Ft2, Sakanaction And Kamiji Yusuke

So I stayed up way past my bedtime on a Sunday night to watch the Women’s World Cup Final and not only was treated to the best game of soccer I’ve ever seen…and that’s not some weird jab at the sport, it genuinely was the most thrilling match I’ve ever seen, albeit that’s a small…

Station To Station: Music Station For July 15, 2011 Featuring Arashi, GACKT And 板野友美

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…

Station To Station: Music Station For June 24 Featuring KARA, L’Arc~en~Ciel And Atsuko Maeda

Before we jump into this week’s platter of pop, a few more thoughts on perfume444. Earlier this week, dude met Perfume and basically had all his dreams come true. I blathered on about how he stood out as a beacon of honesty in an online world of shitty shitty irony, but I did a thought…

Station To Station: Music Station For June 17 Featuring KARA, KinKi Kids and Miwa

Vancouver Canucks fans appear to be the AKB48 geeks of the hockey world, caring about something that isn’t really all that important to an insane degree. I’d love to see the otaku turn Akihabara into a smoldering apocalypse. Anyway, before we dive into this week’s feature, spend some time with Ian Martin‘s and James Hadfield‘s…

Station To Station: Music Station For June 10 Featuring Angela Aki, AKB48 And Sone Yukie

I originally Googled Image Searched the phrase “I Hate This” but that only gave my Pussycat Dolls’ screen grabs and dogs in sweaters. So I switched it up to this. Pretend everyone I write about this week is the jersey and I’m the distraught Cleveland fan driven to lighting things on fire. Angela Aki “始まりのバラード”…