Soul and Jazz meet with hip hop beats in the return of slick instrumental “Grand Royal Blues” by 13souls. You might even learn some nifty dance moves in this shortened clip of the video. So snap your fingers, tap your feet and roll out some Kid ‘N Play moves. Good times, I say, shall be … Continue reading »
Eri Takenaka gets country bluesy in her excellent single “Doushitemo.” Her dialogue driven vocals, the piano and guitar working great together, and some faint female backup vocals turn this into a wonderful country ride. Love it! Eri Takenaka’s new album Sang out 4.18.2012. Do yourself a favor and hit up Yesasia or CDJapan. More Eri … Continue reading »
Two guys who look a like sitting at a desk. They might be twin brothers or something, and they horse around like brothers do. How long before they f*** that sheep sitting beside their desk? Oh about the 3 minute mark they give it a good once over. The video is silly but S.R.S’s pop … Continue reading »
Watch out for sandtraps because Golf has thrown up a performance video for “Hatfield 1980,” a cover song from Everything But the Girl. Gotta love their version that works a bluesy techno vibe that just spreads like peanut butter. Smooth. You need to taste this. There are tempo changes and knob tweaks and it’s a … Continue reading »
Get a mouthful of candy and listen to the very sweet sounds of Shanti. Her very unique single “Candy” is a mixture of blue grass, twang, and blues and soul. Shanti also sings with an almost yodel that is jaw-droppingly awesome. Look for the sugary album Lotus Flower out 2.22.2012 at CDJapan. Black and white … Continue reading »
Yoichi Aoyama’s standing tall in his trailer for his new album Blues for Tomato. In fact, it’s lots of posing, and holding tomatoes. But the good news is that we get to hear some songs off the album and they are indeed Blues-y and funky. What is great, is that the album is out now … Continue reading »
Flying Kids with the help of Yamada Masashi (Back Horn) slow the tempo with a sort of bluesy wacka wacka track in “Itoshisa no Naka De.” We just get a clip, but it’s enough to see the guys hang out and just play. The album Life Works Journey was released 9/21/2011. Both Yesasia and CDJapan … Continue reading »
We get the regular video for Superfly’s 14th single “Ai wo Kurae” without all the movie footage from Smuggler Omae no Mirai wo Hakobe. The more I hear this song the more it sounds like it could have been used in the Cowboy Bebop anime. Very very bluesy. Also in this PV, Superfly wears a … Continue reading »
Superfly’s 14th single is the theme to the movie Smuggler Omae no Mirai wo Hakobe entitled “Ai wo Kurae” which looks like a violent fun time of a movie. The song is very bluesy, but sounds a hell of a lot like a Do As Infinity song to me. If you want to see practically … Continue reading »
Sparkplugged.net has been rocking this week. Yesterday I posted about the Let’s Go’s Rock N’ Roll Star and Plenty’s latest video. Today we have the Henry Henrys, and these guys are young! Go check it out. Mic Check #168- The Let’s Go’s- Rock N’ Roll Star PV Mic Check #169- plenty- Machiawase no Tochu PV … Continue reading »
