[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52JVrp09Zdk”] There is a very real chance the above video will appear only as a black background. The leak-sniffers seem to be on their A-game for this one, so just keep an open eye if you can’t hear the above. Yasutaka Nakata deserves a lot of credit for his production work, especially the work he’s…
Girls Generation landed on the top of the Oricon charts this week with their factory-perfect single “Gee,” making them the first female non-Japanese group to take top honors since The Nolans did it back in 1980 with “I’m In The Mood For Dancing.” It also pretty much confirms that they are huge in Japan. Japan…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ezo2WwX5C4″] Welp, seems The Mirraz went and made a video perfectly summing up The Mirraz. For the spastic talk-sing rush…in other words, “latest typical single by them”…of “ふぁっきゅー” the group created a whirlwind of a clip moving as quickly and randomly as their music does. In a little over three minutes, we get cardboard middle…
Earlier this year, Los Angeles musician Baths released a song called “Aminals” into the wilds of the music world. The track stands out in a year featuring an RSS-feed-worth of artists’ mining the sounds of their youth (read: the 80s) for cheap nostalgia. “Aminals” isn’t a tossed-off slab of irony-cloaked pop, but rather a labored-over…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNIsBHfCQkI”] The song itself is pretty good – a mostly laid-back rock number sung in mumbles before sorta cresting at the chorus. Solid enough if not something you’ll remember next week. What is memorable about Osaka band Buzzu’s new song “明朝” is actually the video, in which some dudes dress up in panda costumes and…