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Watch (A Better Quality!) Video Of Sakanaction’s “Boku To Hana”

ByPatrick St. Michel May 19, 2012June 17, 2012

Much finer quality than when we first got a glimpse of this. Watch above, and have a nice weekend.

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Japanzine Names There Top 10 Japanese Albums Of The 2000s
ByPatrick St. Michel January 5, 2010

J.P. DuQuette over at Japanzine counts down his top 10 Japanese album of the Aughts in the publications January issue, available online over here. You got your usual suspects popping up – didn’t Vision Creation Newsun come out in Japan in 1999 though? Wikipedia has my back here – but the real draw to DuQuette’s…

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New Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re: “Grapefruit Girl”
ByPatrick St. Michel February 3, 2011

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHNGJJWNzZ8″] Personal story time – back in college I really really liked the album Pregnant Fantasy by Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re. After spinning (clicking the iTunes play button over and over again?) for about six months I ended up moving on to whatever else I thought was cool in 2006 and forgot about Tsu…

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New (well, kinda) Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Nemui (Sleepers)”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 22, 2018

How deep does Kindan No Tasuketsu’s catalog go? The ever-changing pop project just released a new compilation called Early Years 2012 – 2016, one which aims to collect some loosies from acros their uhhhh early years…yet I still feel like there are a bunch of songs from this period not represented here. They are prolific!…

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New Pop-Office: “RGN”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 4, 2016

Even a little bit of new Pop-Office is better than no Pop-Office at all. “RGN” is a short but welcome blast from the Nagoya outfit, a fuzzy-around-the-edges rock number with vocals sung just underneath it all, in an uneasy monotone. It’s fast, but wastes no time in unloading everything it needs to and leaving you…

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アナ Prep New Album Hole, Also The TEI EP
ByPatrick St. Michel April 5, 2011

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49C0mpeDjw0″] Lodged somewhere between the chill waves of Hotel Mexico, the lo-fi beach party of Friends and the art-pop of The New House exists アナ(English-only folks, pronounce that “A Na”). They might be the most straightforward group on Second Royal Records, a trio not afraid to test out new sounds but that still come off…

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Slow Bounce: Traampooliine
ByPatrick St. Michel October 5, 2011

Within the Kansai region, it’s a breeze to find interesting music in Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe. That leaves poor Nara as the odd-one-out of the area’s musical scene…it’s not some barren wasteland of sonic ideas, but you don’t hear much about the stuff coming out of the city and prefecture the same way you do…

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