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  • Surfing the Japanese Music Channels, Part Trois

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    You know it, you love it, it’s time for another tour of the music channels! M-On has their “Countdown 100” show on right now, and I was just treated to #42: your generic J-pop idol, strutting her stuff like there’s no tomorrow. She’s cute, as are all her backup dancers, and the video is mostly…

  • Radio OK Fred Update

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    Today we had a recording session for Radio OK Fred, recording the next couple of shows. With the next issue of the magazine (5) scheduled to come out soon (March 10), we sort of did a radio special on it, featuring music from artists featured in the issue. It should be available for download within…

  • Record Shopping in Japan

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    A guide to record shopping in Japan. Link via Gridskipper.

  • MP3 Selections by Trevor

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    Trevor runs the Music Related label, who released the excellent Shugo Tokumaru album NIGHT PIECE, and now he’s started linking to Japanese indie artists’ MP3s that he finds on his blog. Time to start downloading!

  • Tokyo Q Lounge Night

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    This Saturday night (February 19) will see the Tokyo Q (where I write a couple of columns on design and anime) Lounge Night! Tokyo Q presents an eclectic mix of funk, dub, desi, dub-tango, ska-boogaloo, polyphonic metal and other obscure genres from DJs Young Jeff (Play Label), Crustacean, Gangamati (Play Label and Dynastic Records), Sister…

  • Paris Hilton

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    Shake your body-body with Mu while watching the

  • The Return of ROF 2!

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    For those of you who didn’t get a chance to download the second episode of Radio OK Fred, I’ve made it available through YouSendIt. You can get it from this page, which expires in 7 days.

  • Ne Ne Momoko

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    Last time Jesper (Our Man in Sweden) was in town, he kept talking about this Swedish band called Nic & The Family, and he had promos for a song they sing in Japanese called “Ne Ne Momoko” (the original song in Swedish is called “Hej Hej Monica”). Today I received an email from someone mentioning…

  • Radio OK Fred 03

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    Finally, Radio OK Fred is back! We ended up using a commercial service to host the show (something called Liberated Syndication — found via Warren), which should mean that we won’t be having anymore bandwidth problems. Since we now have hosting costs, donations to cover these are welcome (you can click on the PayPal icon…

  • The Music Channel Tour Continues

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    Time to take another look at the music channels to see what’s up with the Jpop/Jrock scene. SpaceShowerTV has a live concert of Jackson Vibe. Feelgood punkrock I guess. They’re a ska-rock band that lost one of its members in a tour accident (car crash) last year. And the singer was a VJ on MTV…