Archive | April 2010
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Ketsumeishi full promo blitz for Nakama
Ketsumeishi has been on a full promo blitz for their upcoming single Nakama with toysfactoryJP and it has given us lots to look at. You might have seen their olympic fiasco CM’s this week, or maybe heard their song being used as the theme to a new drama on TV Ahasi for Hagane no Onna [...]
Grow up with Tokyo Girls’ Style
For all the preteens and kids today looking for a girl group to grow up with and sing and dance to, Avex has created Tokyo Girls’ Style for 2010. “Kirari” is the first single by the 5-member group, which contains whistlely pop sugar sounds. (You can preorder it from yesasia.com as it comes out May [...]
Psycho Food Eaters get Crafty
Psycho Food Eaters get crafty in their PV for “This New Friends” where they pull out the tape, carboard and highlighters to create their own cardboard instruments. The song has a frenetic pace as well, just enough to get you whirling in the mosh pits, should you be so inclined. You might be crazy enough [...]
Aural Vampire’s Zoltank is coming
Aural Vampire are like a bite in the neck to darker electronica. Gothic, demonic, industrial, electronic dance.. this is a Win Win scenario. I haven’t been this giddy since White Zombie’s Super Sexy Swinging Sounds album. Exo-Chika and DJ Raveman has created something exciting that harkens back to the days of Alice Cooper of music/performance [...]
Chik’nhood miss their Home
Chik’nhood realize that when you sing about home, it’s got to be a slow song or rock ballad. Chik’nhood are just following in the footsteps of Motley Crue’s “Home sweet Home” and Ozzy Osborne’s “Mamma I’m coming Home”.. But instead of breaking out the rock guitars, Chik’nhood take a more acoustic approach, and borders on [...]
Shanti is Killing us Softly
You know how to hurt us, Shanti. Give us a tease of your own rendition of “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and then make us wait until June 23rd, 2010 to buy your new album Born to Sing. What can I say, except preorder it at CDJapan and wait wait wait. You can even [...]
Suga Shikao hits a Sayonara Homerun
Suga Shikao is supposedly all about the funk. His new album is coming out May 12th called Funkastic.. and yet his first single out today is anything but funky. “Sayonara Homerun” is a straight up pop song with soft vocals it reminds me of a Michael Penn song. It is easily likable, as a light [...]
Juliet 23:45 PV
Juliet’s new PV for 23:45 is kind of ironic. The girls really have great voices and sing their hearts out in the studio while wearing hats; all the while the actress in the video is standing in the rain getting drenched with no hat, no umbrella. Remember folks, rain usually means a sad affair. But [...]
tombotori release Sentimental PV
It wasn’t long ago I was talking about tombotori’s 7 inch, and it is out today (buy it at yesasia.com.) So tombotori was nice enough to release another PV for the song “Sentimental” and it’s a hand clapper. Literally. Pulling off hand claps in songs takes talent to make it work. These guys incorporate the [...]
birds melt sky- mirai mirai
Birds melt sky create a bubbly synth electropoppy hit with their single “Mirai Mirai” off their new album Birds in Space which came out on March 24th, 2010. (order it from yesasia.com now) “Mirai Mirai” is infectuous, light and airy. This is my kind of happy music. The only thing more fun would be a [...]
