Four cute young women clad in ghostly white robes prance around in a forest holding twigs: No, it's not an outtake from the classic 1973 pagan spookfest "The Wicker Man." Yes, it is the excellent video for the Merpeoples' spankingly sublime song "Sherman."
Singer/guitarist Charlotte and drummer Rico must be the star pupils in their art-school class, as Merpeoples — completed by keyboardist Sayaka and bassist Ikuko — made the video themselves.
"Sherman," boasting a hypnotic but spiky guitar lick, is the catchiest song you'll hear this year and deserves to be a staple hit on all indie dancefloors. Like most of Merpeoples' eponymous debut album — released Feb. 17 — "Sherman" is dreamy pop melded to post-punk guitar riffage, but the band aren't afraid to experiment, and on the track "Midara na Story" ("Dirty Story") Sayaka's ivory-tinkling conjures up an exotic buzz — like the music from a James Bond scene in a souk.
Shame they spelled "Sherman" wrong.
"You mean it's S-H-A-M-A-N?" asks Charlotte.
I'm afraid so. Sherman is an old U.S. tank. I didn't see a tank in the video. "Thanks, but on the CD it's in katakana, so it's OK," Charlotte says (she got her nickname 'cos a friend said that in profile she looks like Charlotte Gainsbourg).
This short but humorous and sexy Japanese TV video from 1994 demonstrates both bad and good love hotel etiquette when getting undressed together before having sex for the two-hour time limit:
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In an apparent first, North Korea — a country that struggles to feed its 24 million people — has aired a beer commercial on state television.
The advertisement, which lasted nearly three minutes after a news program on Thursday, showed a grinning Korean man with sweat on his face holding a glass of beer, with a caption that read, "Taedong River Beer is the pride of Pyongyang."
The commercial said the beer relieves stress and improves health and longevity. It also showed images of a pub it said was in the capital of Pyongyang, filled with people drinking."
In this live video, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs performs three songs: "I F A Surfer", "Highlight (ハイライト Hairaito)" and "Bears (ベアーズ Beaazu)" live in Tokyo sometime in 2008:
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs is about to go out on their "World is Yours" extended tour and will appear at Shimokitazawa Shelter on Thursday, June 11th. However, that show is, apparently, already sold out!"#$&#$! To find out more about their upcoming tour, check the official Japanese Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Live Schedule
According to Wikipedia, Chinese Rock first started in Beijing in 1984 and mostly involved university students in small underground bars and hotels.
Since then Chinese rock has had its ups and downs and was severely hit hard by the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. But now, finally, in 2009 the Chinese rock movement seems to be rolling along pretty well. The below video was released earlier this year in February by Tripfilms and it gives us a good view of the current emerging underground rock scene in China:
OH BY JINGO!!! This is a very rare recording of David Bowie singing Girls in Japanese! This song was written by David Bowie and Erdal Kizilcay and it was released as a single by Tina Turner on her 1986 "Break Every Rule" album.
And following that, Bowie recorded two versions of this song - one in English and this version here in Japanese! ZEHI KITTE KUDASAI!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!!
Here is a pretty good first-effort 2D animation video by RavePen with "Tokyo Zombie (The Knock came at Dead of Night)" by The Pillows as the audio track:
Electric Eel Shock - Rock & Roll Can Rescue The World
Electric Eel Shock (EES) are a three-piece garage metal band, formed in Tokyo in the late 1990s. They first toured the United States in 1999 and have been touring the world ever since.
"This is one of the most amazing hard rock and roll bands around... and one of my favourite studio guests of the last year" - Bruce Dickenson on his show on BBC Radio 6.
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