Tag: jpop
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O!susume – tricot
Broadcast 17: tricot For this month’s recommendation, I’m talking about tricot—an explosive alt/math/J-rock band that expanded and redefined what kind of music I wanted to listen to back in 2015. They inspired me to seek out more awesome Japanese rock bands with female vocalists and instrumentalists—so I can ultimately thank them for expanding the awesome…
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O!susume – Yonige
Broadcast: 16: My pick for July is the joshirock duo Yonige. I discovered this band back when I was travelling around Japan for several months in 2017, when their album girls like girls was being featured at Village Vanguard. Their clean, simple instrumentals coupled with their airy, wistful lyrical flow drew me in quickly, and I…
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O!susume – WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA
Broadcast 15: WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA This month’s O! recommendation is a fun one! WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA always puts me in a good mood, and they’ve recently changed singers, so today I’m going to share some of their new singles with you. As a long-time listener, it’s been a fun experience getting re-introduced to the band with a…
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O!susume – Polkadot Stingray
Broadcast 13: I’m excited to recommend POLKADOT STINGRAY today on this edition of O!susume RadioBeat. I’m always on the lookout for a good J-rock/J-pop band with great female vocals, and this band immediately stood out for me when they first came onto the scene for their interesting instrumentals. Some of my favorite songs from the…
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O!susume – toe
Broadcast 11: What I love about toe is similar to what I love about Japanese music in general; often Japanese music is through-composed with a focus on rhythmic progression throughout a given song, and math-rock is the perfect genre to expand on that. toe’s music is melodic and gentle, yet complex and interesting to listen…
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O!susume – ZUTOMAYO
Broadcast 9: This week’s band is called ずっと真夜中でいいのに (Zutto Mayonaka de Iinoni), meaning “I wish it was midnight all the time”, stylized in English as ZUTOMAYO or sometimes shortened to ZTMY. They are an indie J-pop/J-rock band with an anonymous female vocalist known as ACAね (ACAne). The rest of the band is also anonymous, with…
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O!susume – Charisma.com
Broadcast 8: Welcome back to another O!susume broadcast. This time around we’re looking at a quirky duo who found a way to combine their disparate musical talents, creating a musical force that propelled them up the charts with a trajectory towards a national breakout. However, after six short years, they walked off the stage as…
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Japanese Sign Language Makes Appearance in ANLY’s Newest Single
Welcome to a special O!susume collab post from both Nagi and Erin! Aside from our usual biweekly music recommendation posts, we figured we’d use this space to talk about anything else that catches our eye/ear within the modern Japanese music scene. One of Nagi’s very first Broadcasts was for Anly, who back in 2018 was…
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O!susume – GOOD ON THE REEL
Broadcast 7: Welcome or welcome back to another O!susume RadioBeat Broadcast, our first for February 2022. Shake off the winter blues with Erin’s recommendation of the month, the five-member band GOOD ON THE REEL.
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O!susume: Mrs. GREEN APPLE
Broadcast 6: Welcome back to another O!susume broadcast. This time we’re gonna talk about Mrs. GREEN APPLE, a young five-member band that swings between Jpop and Jrock with grace and charm.