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Post by lazybone on Jun 25, 2014 22:42:03 GMT -5
www.nerdist.com/2014/06/j-pop-summit-festival-in-san-francisco-this-july/J-POP SUMMIT FESTIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO THIS JULY! "The 2014 J-POP SUMMIT Festival, San Francisco’s annual celebration of Japanese pop culture, music, fashion and film, is fast approaching! This year’s theme is “POP Is Our Tradition,” and denizens of the Bay Area will be treated to some of the best J-Pop acts out there. If you head over to Japantown on Saturday and Sunday, July 19th and 20th, you can catch acts like pop/rock/anime singer May’n, Tokyo Girls’ Style (in their first-ever U.S. appearance), beatboxer DAICHI, Harajuku fashion model/singer Una, the U.S. debut of the kimono cosplay duo YANAKIKU, and J-rock bands Pinky Doodle Poodle & The Akabane Vulgars on Strong Bypass."
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jun 26, 2014 9:20:55 GMT -5
I wish these kinds of things would happen here
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Post by lazybone on Jul 3, 2014 23:44:07 GMT -5
Call for Volunteers!!!
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Post by lazybone on Jul 20, 2014 12:47:42 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone on Jul 21, 2014 23:07:18 GMT -5
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jul 23, 2014 16:02:48 GMT -5
Yes, like the Tifa-like outfit too.
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Post by lazybone712 on Aug 18, 2014 7:01:50 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Jul 10, 2015 22:55:20 GMT -5
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jul 12, 2015 0:57:03 GMT -5
Gangoru girls!!
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 12, 2015 3:38:02 GMT -5
I think they're just doll-face gyarus with nice tans. If you did your homework and read every chapter of Bleach you can see these are not even so much as the second or third forms of a fully evolved ganguro. Which is a truly frightening thing.
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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 2, 2015 23:40:14 GMT -5
JinnyOops!/錆びれた希望 rusted hopeUpped 2015 Aug 02 by JinnyOops! Video Collection Music video subbed with lyrics in English and Japanese New on YouTube this morning. Forget blended ska/rock, Mitsuyo of JinnyOops! is going to stand there and tell you how to live life! Let's jog along. They're on the Saturday bill for the 2015 J-Pop Summit Festival this weekend.
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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 5, 2015 16:43:45 GMT -5
Also headlining this weekend, Universal recording artists Gacharic Spin.
Pop with chops.
Gachapin got started over a period in 2009 after Hana's old band Armeria slumped, and two successful-but-stuck groups, THE PINK☆PANDA and EU・PHORIA, were plundered for personnel.
Fun is Job 1. Gachapin are almost as entertaining in an interview as onstage. They're completely commercial. If the Melt-Banana creed is, "This is what we do, we hope someone can meet us halfway," then Gacharic Spin is more, "Oh, that's what you like? That's what we like too!!"
What keeps them from being trivial: raw girlpower, live musicianship. Their performances are a blast.
Purebred [Underground Idol] Episode 673 (10:46) "Kamen Joshi × Gacharic Spin First Summer Session ☆ WINNER" Upped 2014 April 30 by Kamen Joshi (Strongest Underground Idols) Gacharic Spin invite official mascots Kamen Joshi for an encore to celebrate their top honors at an event concocted by Alice Project. The two girls in the inflatable are GS's dancers. There was no room for them on the stage. Kamen Joshi = Masked Girls.
Gacharic Spin "JUICY BEATS" Live (04:29) Upped on 2014 June 15 by Megu Yoshimi Live performance of the hit from their 2011 mini-album, Virgin-A. This stage is a lot less crowded! Vocoding, LED gloves and bellydance, all part of the formula since Day 1. Their shows are really this hot.
Gacharic Spin - "Don't Let Me Down" (Music Video Short ver.) (02:06) Upped 2015 April 26 by Gacharic Spin Official Official music video for the single currently being hyped. Some kind of allegory about the paper tiger of male arrogance falling to Oreo, the band member who lists her responsibilities as "vocals, keyboards, sexy."
Gacharic Spin - "Don't Let Me Down" Video Commentary (03:45) Upped 2015 June 04 by Keiichi Narita The band commends to your care the 2nd single and MV from their recent album, picked by Fuji TV for the end theme of Dragon Ball Z Kai; in Japanese. Kb player Reona, (Oreo-Reona-sama, as she likes to be known, ha ha) is pretty amped about her starring part in the video above. She used to be shy, and now hangs lighted rice bowls on her chest. The motor-mouth in the middle is Koga (bass).
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Aug 6, 2015 15:25:31 GMT -5
Autotune abounds! ;p
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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 7, 2015 0:00:25 GMT -5
Yes... but the vocal processing I hear is being used for timbre more like Robot Voice FX and I wouldn't think that it was Auto-Tune they used for Juicy Beats. If it was good enough for Peter Frampton, it's good enough for us... isn't it? GS isn't much in need of a crutch, three of them play toward the top of their class technically, and two of them are better than just okay singers. They lost their bombshell vocalist Armmy suddenly to incapacitating illness. That encouraged other members to develop, but it took no fewer than three new members to fill the void left by that one. But ask me which band I would most want to go on a boring cross-country bus trip with.
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Post by thegl0r on Aug 7, 2015 4:33:48 GMT -5
Gacharic Spin with Robot Voice for effect, and a semi-metal drummer who gives lessons... I've no idea what she's saying, but on a long train journey, I'd be willing to listen if she wanted to talk. I'd also listen to the bass player if she wanted to chat about drawing on my hand... There's also similar instructionals on guitar and keyboards. I still read the band's name as Geriatric Spin.
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