10. Nu Clear Classmate “Blank World” “Suicide Pop,” Nu Clear Classmate’s self-created genre of choice, would be a tough one to explain save for the efforts of one pop star to define it for the world by complete accident – M.I.A. Her mostly reviled 2010 album ///Y/…for the record, not nearly as bad as critics…
20. Your Gold, My Pink “Adolescence” Back in May I saw Your Gold, My Pink play the Nara Street Style Music Festival, going into their late-day set absolutely jazzed to see what they could do live. An hour later I wanted to hightail it to the McDonald’s across the street to drown my disappointment in…
Any day now, you can expect a nice countdown of my favorite Japanese songs of 2010. Hopefully. Until then, though, let’s look at a few tracks that didn’t make the cut. This isn’t an honorable mentions deal…sorry, that could take all day if we have to tally up runner-ups…but rather five songs I heard in…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WMyjU5RweU”] A moment of praise to all people actually good at Japanese…especially the folks at Perfume City who recently launched a channel devoted to sub-titling Perfume-related videos into English. Of the clips on their right now, an early favorite of mine would be a program that interviews producer Nakata Yasutaka about the “ten golden rules”…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCTBOTHsVU”] Man, Obama looks so uncomfortable surrounded by all those weird-ass robots. Dude did get to try out the Charles Xavier chair though so I’m sure that was cool. KAT-TUN “CHANGE UR WORLD” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue1M1BRVzOs”] It’s almost time to buy a new page-a-day calendar, and as the 2010 editions brace for trash day my biggest surprise…