Home Tag "J-Pop"

Terrific Tea Time Tunes

Now that you’ve got all your china sorted, the table set, and the tea brewing, it’s time for you to sort out some smashing tunes to liven up your tea party! Dust off those old dancing shoes, and put your records on. KERLI – ‘TEA PARTY’ No better way to welcome people to your party than […]

Music Monday: Japanese Idols

Seeing as Japan is kind of my thing here now, it seems only right to focus this week’s Music Monday on something uniquely Japanese; Idols! Summer may be over, but chances are Japan’s biggest idol summer smashes never made it across the Atlantic, so get ready, it’s about to get high-pitched up in here. AKB48 […]

Review: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Pikapika Fantajin

What’s the difference between pop and J-pop? What makes Japanese pop music distinct enough to earn that mysterious prefix that so many insist on giving it? Do those distinctions still matter in an increasingly globalized music industry? Can anyone actually answer these rhetorical questions? Well, yes actually; J-pop superstar Kyary Pamyu Pamyu can, and on […]

Interview: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

It’s a surreal moment. On a balmy April evening, the streets of London’s Shepherd’s Bush are overrun with scene kids, gothy teens, puzzled parents and kawaii queens. To describe the audience in attendance for tonight’s show at the O2 Empire as a “mixed bag” feels like the understatement of the century. Imagine a limited edition […]

Music Monday: 25/11/2013

It’s gloomy, it’s cold, it’s probably wet, and it’s definitely Monday BUT it’s also officially a month ’til Christmas, so it’s not all bad. Here are some tunes to help you shift those Monday blues while we wait for December to drop and we can finally sing Christmas songs without shame. Andy Kavanagh
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