Bros are high-fiving the shit out of each other after watching the beach frolic video by SUPER☆GiRLS “Tokonatsu High Touch.” It’s everything you want out of a J-idol beach video. Stunning girls in their wet suits dancing, splashing, hoola hooping, and painting fences? Yep, there is a lot of paint! And you knows there be …
Hooray for Friday! Cheer for the weekend! Go to the beach! Seriously, get off your butt and go to the beach. Ok, if you just can’t, then maybe watching Tokyo Cheer② Party will lift your spirits. “Gamushara Spirits” is all about working hard everyday and then working hard everyday in the sun at the beach. …
MEG ZOMBIES and MEG are down like Whoa! So let’s check out this video sandwich. MEG ZOMBIES devours her men in “Kiss or Bite,” but we really just get a taste of that track at the beginning and the end. What’s the meat of this video sandwich is the video for MEG’s “SAVE.” It’s like …
Kojoe is in a “51st State of Mind.” With the help of smooth tipper Ritto, both of these boys are reppin’ Japan and some West Coast American rap styles. This song is a lot smoother than expected, it’s almost sexy for a song that’s kind of political. So mind meld with Kojoe and feel it. …
Yesterday, Rau Def announced a new video was coming. Sho nuf, here is “Jedi Song.” So do you like sword fighting at night? Don’t worry, don’t think dirty, Rau Def and his crew of the Mutantaners use toy plastic swords. What’s really being sliced up is Rau Def’s words. He raps over crashing cymbals,and retro …
So I hear there is a new flavor of Mountain Dew. It’s called Hopeless Dew and it tastes like the tears of a broken mosh pit kid. Ok. Maybe I made that up. But Hopeless Dew is a J-punk band that philosophizes “WHY DON’T YOU WONDER WHAT PROVES PEOPLE EXIST.” Think about that long and …
Walk the streets aimlessly with Ryo Iwamoto (we are time) in another meandering piano single “Love Streams (Theme).” This video includes more dancing, but it’s less obvious, and more twirling and flailing. Love the city! Hug the rails, lay on the steps, reach out to the skyline. Ryo Iwamoto’s new album Love is Overtaking Me …
What is the life of a night bee? A rather hilarious one, if what we see from Naika MC and 我次郎MIC rings true. “Night Bee a.k.a. Yoru no Hachi” explores the night life of young men looking for some extra curricular activities… Paying for sex. yep. It’s a whimsical rap song and educational too and …
Wonderboyz go reggae hip hop in their vine swinger “Tarzan.” It’s still a boyband pop single, but the reggae diggery makes this better than your usual boy band fluff. You also get an autotuned Tarzan yodel for a chorus. Plus we get a nerd voyeur in a Smurf shirt. Speaking of the video itself, it’s …
Take a ride on the great space coaster with Yuki Koyanagi with the R&B shoop single “Jet Coaster.” Color me surprised to hear such a Motown sound from Yuki Koyanagi, and even more excited to see the way she sings with that snarly curled lip. Get it girl. We only get part of the single, …
Put your hands up! Mikris and Soldier are railing reggae hip hop style in “Reconquista.” So whether on the rooftops are in underconstructed buildings, these dudes are laying it down. It’s a macho shout out with lots of manly back vocals rolling the song along, but MIKRIS and SOLDIER’s rapid fire rhymes are truly representing … Continue reading »
Feelflip might be on the government’s watchlist with their highly contagious and infectious punk ska. Put on your gas masks when watching “O.K. Man.” Whatever these dudes are planning, it involves tooty ska horns and frenetic guitars. Mosh on Feelflip and get your adrenaline pumping. This song is on touch the monolith CD+DVD out 6.5.2013. … Continue reading »
If you want to sing with me, you need to know the lyrics. Good thing Fake Face released this lyric video for “Over and Over Again.” So you can sing this damn song over and over again before their new single drops in July of 2013. The good news is that the song is in … Continue reading »
I’ve been framed! is exactly what one might say after watching this Video Pantsu clip for “Magic of Love” by Perfume. The girls are swatched in patterns that match their backgrounds, and appear and disappear magically through windows and circle frames. Neat effects. More exciting are the dance moves Perfume are able to perform so … Continue reading »
Bamboo Stick’m. Ha-ha-ha stick’m. Feel the beat with Campanella, ojibah and Bron-K in the tree-shaker “Bamboo Step.” These dudes look like they’ve been hitting the trees hard. So when you hear the distorted deep vocal chorus, don’t get paranoid. Awesome stuff. Hope is No Hope for DJ Isso & Campanella. Their album drops 5.17.2013 from … Continue reading »
Wubba wubba wubba.. it’s 90′s club music up in this piece! Coasaru goes retro dance music with the guilty pleasure single “Breakers feat. Momose.” This really sounds like the one hit wonders Real McCoy (Another Night) meets Ya Kid K of Technotronic sung/rapped by a nasally dude Coasaru. So of course I like it! Coasaru … Continue reading »
Have you missed Rip Slyme? The boys might have been on a “Long Vacation” as their single suggests.. and that seems to be internet jail. See the striped pants and bars. Also note the horrible 360p streaming. Rip Slyme has been away so long, they don’t even know what’s a good connection speed. Yikes! Luckily … Continue reading »
“Bubbles.” Tiny bubbles from the tiny voices of films. What a masterful composition of deep bellowing piano and flighty strings. It’s like Tori Amos did classical experimental. Really pretty music. Films might be a little serious, but films is top notch orchestral music. Their album a forbidden garden was released on April 26, 2013 and … Continue reading »
Hey yo! Yo-Hey! or Yohei.. this guy sings like James Taylor and sounds absolutely amazing with his acoustic guitar. And he sings about love in “Ai Ni Tsuite.” Love Love Love it.. or else! I also love how CDJapan lists his description as “a hot artist from Kyoto, who is 28 years old and 191cm … Continue reading »
Cypress Ueno and Robert Oshino tap into one of the greatest samples of all time, Black Sheep’s “The Choice is Yours” vocal beat “WHOO… C’mon” on the extremely servicable “Bukkamasu” single. What you get is a rap blast of old school beats great for skating to at your local park. It might not be funky … Continue reading »
