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love the pettiness of koresawa www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaF...

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This Side of Japan's Monthly Listening: February 2025 Rounding up great new releases we checked out during February from Laura day romance, robounoishi, Hoach5000 and more thissidejapan.substack.com/p/monthly-li...

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Only took me like four months to get my act together and finally sit down and write about my favorite #kpop musical releases and moments of 2024 notesonkpop.com/the-best-k-p...

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I’m in london to see thursday and my interview w geoff rickly for tone glow has dropped on the same day ✨ was so fun talking to a lifelong art hero about the band’s reunion, scoring his audiobook, fandom, hardcore, perfume, luca guadagnino films and much more! open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...

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listening to Ai Otsuka’s debut, from 2003, realizing I associate a lot of Jpop around that early 00s stretch with “songs of summer” vibes

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New Idol Watch for January and February! Rounding up idol song favorites from the past 2 months, ft. Tonalia, MYERA, Juice=Juice and more - plus a revisit of a classic Hello! Pro supergroup thissidejapan.substack.com/p/idol-watch...

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there is now a japanese drill cypher

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nanno yoko brought the actual mask and yoyo from sukeban deka

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the actual story it was trying to tell felt kinda tedious to follow along, but loved kudo mio and osaki ichika together in call me by no name

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the albums i logged this month for #MWE

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New This Side of Japan! What's inside: 💄 Friends Recommends ft. @kimonobeat.bsky.social @omunibasu.bsky.social @otherdavemoore.com & CJ 💄 new Laura day romance album 💄 singles by Hoshimiya Toto, robounoishi, tiny yawn 💄 Seiko Matsuda's "Rock'n Rouge" thissidejapan.substack.com/p/issue-92-w...

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booked a night to watch evanglion death & rebirth, for research

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love the kind of grime that helps make sense of how purple sound came to be youtu.be/v5cBQK1AaOY?...

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digging into the robounoishi album from last fall, amazing often brutal mikugaze, out from siren for charlotte eneiongaku.bandcamp.com/album/pater-...

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been listening to this one all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr_c...

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not proud of how long it took to identify which exact bruno mars song the chorus of this reminded me of www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdnH...

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GIVE ME THE SUISEI HOSHIMACHI CHUCK TAYLORS

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xg shared a spotify playlist of "the songs that made xg" open.spotify.com/user/switch_...

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ado and honeyworks???

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damn looks like i’ve been missing out on a bandori band youtu.be/rfA_P10FGQQ?...

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please applaud me for successfully building this arc of rap > bass/techno > beat music > new jack swing > girl group r&b > afrobeat

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you know as much as my brain has been trained to react to this kind of j-pop girl groups as "oh sounds like kpop" i don't think kpop girl groups have actually sounded like this in years www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUY3...

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first bandori act on first take?

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New This Side of Japan! What's inside: 🚂 4 songs from J-dramas, winter '25 🚂 Live report: Phantom Siita at House of Blues, Anaheim 🚂 singles by DAFTY RORN; Genick, Jacotanu & The Deep; Satoko Shibata 🚂 ZOO's "Choo Choo TRAIN" thissidejapan.substack.com/p/issue-91-m...

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