Info Album : J世紀 / Jeneration ( Buy Album ) Artist : 蔡依林 / Jolin Tsai Release Date : March 5, 2009 Blurb Our Butterfly Jolin review will be coming up this weekend, sorry for the unexpected hiatus! We now turn to Jolin Tsai's (蔡依林) Jeneration , a compilation album of her past two albums along with three new songs: The Hotshot (耍大牌), [...]
Info Song : 表達愛 / Expressing Love Artist : 林俊傑 / JJ Lin (feat 廖君) Release Date : February 14, 2009 Blurb Oh dear, it's Valentine's Day!!! Or Singles-Awareness Day , really, it doesn't matter how you celebrate it (for me, it's the latter). And to help commemorate such a theoretically beautiful day, JJ Lin has released a single Expressing Love (表達愛), a duet with female [...]
Info Song : Come Back to Me Artist : 宇多田光 / Come Back to Me Release Date : February 9, 2009 Blurb Yeah, this is another one of those English songs by an Asian singer, but there's so many of these that we're going to cover it anyways. Utada Hikaru's new English single Come Back to Me is a great song - it tells a [...]
Info Album : 我愛上的 / Decisively Loved ( Buy Album ) Artist : 丁噹 / Ring / Ding Dang Release Date : July 14, 2008 Blurb This is definitely one of my more-liked albums of the summer, specifically for two duet songs on it - I'm Not Afraid (我不怕) with MC Hot Dog and Through Fire and Devils (走火入魔) wth A-Shin (阿信) of Mayday fame. Both are [...]
Info Album : 三面夏娃 / 3-Faced Elva ( Buy Album ) Artist : 蕭亞軒 / Elva Hsiao Release Date : June 13, 2008 Review By : ashih Blurb Elva Hsiao (蕭亞軒) burst onto the Mandarin pop music scene in 1999. Her first self titled album contained several hits, most notably "Cappuccino" and "The Most Familiar Stranger" (最熟悉的陌生人). A decade ago, it looked like Elva [...]
Info Album : 三面夏娃 / 3-Faced Elva ( Buy Album ) Artist : 蕭亞軒 / Elva Hsiao Release Date : June 13, 2008 Review By : ashih Blurb Elva Hsiao (蕭亞軒) burst onto the Mandarin pop music scene in 1999. Her first self titled album contained several hits, most notably "Cappuccino" and "The Most Familiar Stranger" (最熟悉的陌生人). A decade ago, it looked like Elva [...]
Info Album : Me ( Buy Album ) Artist : Super Junior-M . . . Release Date : May 8, 2008 Blurb Super Junior is broken up into so many different parts that it's dizzying, and IMHO only the most insane people can remember all their divisions and the styles of each one. M is easy to remember though, as [...]
Info Album : I Loved Yesterday ( Buy Album ) Artist : Yui Release Date : April 14, 2008 Blurb Sorry everyone for our unexpected extended hiatus - you know, what with it being finals week and all, everyone's busy as heck. Well, in any case, we're back, and over the next week we'll be finishing up this belated series, as well as sprucing up the site [...]
Info Album : 為你寫詩 / Poems For You ( Buy Album ) Artist : 吳克群 / Kenji Wu Release Date : March 14, 2008 Review Continuing with our attempt to do a somewhat comprehensive go-over of our late and great last year, this month is the month of March, which saw the release of Poems for You (為你寫詩), by singer Kenji Wu (吳克群). I'll be quite honest, in my [...]
Info Album : 鴿子 / Dove ( Buy Album ) Artist : 楊宗緯 / Aska Yang Release Date : January 11, 2008 Review By : illuminance Review Yes, this album was actually released in mid-January, but it dominated the charts for the better part of the January and February. Aska Yang (楊宗緯) is perhaps, the most popular new singer this year on the Mandarin music scene. Since [...]
Info EP : Days/GREEN ( Buy Album ) Artist : 濱崎あゆみ / Ayumi Hamasaki Release Date : December 17, 2008 Blurb Ayumi Hamasaki has sure been busy. Even with her deaf ear, she continues to churn out music on a large scale. After her previous album Guilty, she has recently released this single titled Days. This single brings hopes to her numerous fans all over the world, because many thought that [...]
Info Song: 我的愛吊點滴 / My Love Drips and Drops Album : 半熟宣言 / Not Yet a Woman ( Buy Album ) Artist : 楊丞琳 / Rainie Yang Release Date : November 7, 2008 Blurb We're still going on with our regular schedule of posting stuff we like, while the 2008 in Review series goes on. I perhaps overlooked Rainie Yang's fourth album [...]
Info Album : Guilty ( Buy Album ) Artist : 濱崎步 / Ayumi Hamasaki Release Date : January 11, 2008 Review By : sky Review Ayumi Hamasaki has shown versatility in music, and continues to shine despite being completely deaf in her right ear. This great feat is crowned by yet another album, Guilty , the ninth for the thirty-year old Japanese pop icon. [...]
Just like last year , we're going to celebrate the upcoming new year by reviewing twelve albums, one for each month of the year. This time, however, we're truly covering the whole spectrum of Asian Music - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean albums. We can't guarantee we'll finish by January 1, 2009, but at the very least, it's going to be a lot of fun going over "classics" that are a mere six months old. Also just like last time, we're going through stuff that we "missed," not necessarily the most important ones of the year. [...]
Info Album : w/z Friendz Artist : Shion Release Date : October 2008 Review By : blummer Review I first heard of Shion when I was browsing a CD store last summer in Japan. Her first album, Candy Girl , had come out around that time and there were a bunch of copies of it available. The thing that caught my eye was the ridiculous cover (Google it) which [...]
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The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video)
Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
