#20 Cicada Formula It’s easy to recreate the past, as no shortage of Japanese bands borrowing from ’80s city pop and ’90s acid jazz have shown in recent years (and, really, globally…this is all Daft Punk’s fault). Cicada’s earliest work slid in nicely to this safe but oftentimes overly familiar space. But Formula decided to…
The line between stupidity and genius can often be very close, and lord does For My Homiez jump-rope between the two. This is an album of songs mostly constructed from samples of SMAP songs, with some tracks warping Johnny’s favorite cash cow into goofy trap numbers over which people rap about…SMAP, and Johnny Kitagawa. As…
Will anything be more depressing than the story behind the above photo? Let’s find out! Miliyah Kato “Heart Beat” Since this song is a Coca-Cola tie-in track with the 2012 Olympics, I figured the line you hear at the beginning of the song was saying “I was going to London.” It seems to actually be…
For the next few weeks, Station To Station will be happening on Thursday nights for various reasons that will be revealed in due time. Don’t worry – our irrational hate of Sexy Zone won’t be going anywhere. Anne “Ai Wo Anata Ni” WATCH HERE New night, but same old boring material. This might be a…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQg8SdQ1dHo”] If you follow our Twitter (which you should!) or our recently minted Tumblr (which you should!), you have probably seen the above video. It’s basically propaganda for Korean food…with a song by great K-Pop group Wonder Girls. I don’t believe in “guilty pleasures” but I feel a twinge of shame admitting “K-Food Party” is…