The Greatest YouTube Clip Of The Year Award
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv4gUdn6Lcc”]
The fact this didn’t go even more viral is a sign society needs to be reset and we should all start over. Amazing on at least four levels.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv4gUdn6Lcc”]
The fact this didn’t go even more viral is a sign society needs to be reset and we should all start over. Amazing on at least four levels.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLy4cvRx7Vc”] This popped up seconds before I was going to go to bed. Harajuku fashion idol turned singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s new song “つけまつける” just hit the web, and you can watch the predictably nutty video above. I like when she pulls the sparkle rope out of her mouth…or maybe I really like the part…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF12h19h5uo”] March 11 is coming up, marking the one-year anniversary of the earthquake/tsunami. I wrote an article for The Atlantic about music after these disasters, and it features all sorts of names you might know – EXILE, Neon Cloud, Goth-Trad, Rankin’ Taxi…list goes on. Read it here, and make sure to watch all the videos…because…
In which pop-spazz EeL looks at all the people disappointed in the forced zaniness of last year’s For Common People by giving them something truly zany and out of nowhere, a cover of “All That She Wants.” OK, she probably didn’t pay any attention to the folks let down by her last album, but her…
Kyoto’s Homecomings have always sung in English prior to this year’s Whale Living, out next week. On that one, they switch it up to their native Japanese. Yet “Blue Hour” reminds that despite the linguistic change, the quartet remains capable of nailing the melancholy of everyday life. “Blue Hour” unfolds at a familiar Charlie-Brown-type shuffle,…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWn7zbgxZ4″] Note video above not the song, but rather something that might weird ya out For a while there Metrotune played it safe by just posting Dilla-inspired beats. Now with “Pickles” the mysterious producers hit us with…a Reagan-era club jam that could double as filler music in an episode of Miami Vice. Metrotune’s still slicing…
Trying to figure out what QQIQ’s deal is has proven to be tougher than I thought. From a bit of Google scouring (potentially not good Google scouring), they appear to be a band of college students. They upload music to a YouTube channel, ranging from guitar covers of various Japanese songs (and Elliot Smith), to…