Youtube Japan Music Week
http://youtu.be/ddmYVqScv6g
Youtube Japan will hold 10 days long “Youtube Music Week” from April 27th to May 6th.
All of the follow concerts will be livestreamed on their artists' respective Youtube channels.
I am linking wiki FYI profiles and listing their genre categories here. To be honest, I think I'm going to try and hit up as many streams as I can, sleep be damned. Yes, even the overlapping ones. They all sound/look interesting, except for Nightmare.
As always, I'll be hanging out in chat during the streams I watch, link in the sidebar.
AKB48 (4/28 - @17:30) (4:30AM EST Sunday) - Needs no introduction. This is the 48fam ending concert at Budokan after a series of solo concerts by AKB and all sister groups the days before. Expect some massive arena staging and too many girls to count. Also possibly wtfery announcements.
Golden Bomber (4/27 - 5/6 @10:00 everyday) - and I quote, "Hyper Giga Hybrid Super Subculture Visual Rock." They fuck with SKE on music shows. Fun times.
Sekai no Owari (4/27 @22:00, 5/2 @21:00) - Rock. A quick skim on Youtube seems like pretty upbeat pop-rock with good variety.
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (4/29 @14:00) - Electro-pop. PON PON WEIWEIWEI PONPON WEIWEI PON WEIWEI
AAA (4/29 @22:00) - EDM with a smattering of everything else. The ex-backdancers group that is the poster child for "the generic Avex sound."
BOOM BOOM SATELLITES (4/30 @23:00) - Electronica, electronic rock. No pop here, but an interesting wide variety of sounds.
Nightmare (5/1 @20:00) - Visual Kei. Sounds like standard Jrock/VK fare. Meh.
Shonen no Kaze (5/3 @12:00) - Reggae, hip hop, and ska-core, which is batshit crazy in-your-face awesome.
Koda Kumi (5/3 @22:00) - "Pop" of the mainstream solo artist variety, meaning any genre but tending towards urban and R&B pop. Top notch vocalist and performer. (Maybe compare to Aguilera?)
Yakushimaru Etsuko (5/3 @23:00) - Pop, but also frontgirl of a rock band. (Which in Jpop, can still mean every genre under the sun.) Whispery vocals, has done some notable anime themes. Aforementioned band seems to tend towards laidback-upbeat. (Wiki says they're strongly KayoKyoku influenced, meaning they follow asian melodic patterns more than western, which I heard during the skim.)
Livetune (5/4 @18:30) - Electronic music. If Perfume were Vocaloids, and Nakata was an otaku, more conventional, and on picker-uppers.
Flumpool (5/4 @21:00) - Rock. Can be used to exemplify what the J-rock sound is.
Hyadain (5/4 @22:00) - EVERYTHING. One of the greatest producers in Jpop, with a real gift for melody and flipping the bird to structure and genre boundaries. And sanity in music.
Hamasaki Ayumi (5/4 @23:00) - Pop. In terms of her impact on the industry, Ayumi is Japan's Madonna. (Namie is Beyonce.) Notable for writing her own lyrics from nearly the beginning of her career.
VERBAL (5/5 @21:00) - Rapper. Is like the Will.i.am. of m-Flo's BEP.
Denki Groove (5/6 @20:00) - Electronic music. Man, the Japanese electronic music scene is keyed into my tastes.
See you guys during Music Week!
Youtube Japan will hold 10 days long “Youtube Music Week” from April 27th to May 6th.
All of the follow concerts will be livestreamed on their artists' respective Youtube channels.
I am linking wiki FYI profiles and listing their genre categories here. To be honest, I think I'm going to try and hit up as many streams as I can, sleep be damned. Yes, even the overlapping ones. They all sound/look interesting, except for Nightmare.
As always, I'll be hanging out in chat during the streams I watch, link in the sidebar.
AKB48 (4/28 - @17:30) (4:30AM EST Sunday) - Needs no introduction. This is the 48fam ending concert at Budokan after a series of solo concerts by AKB and all sister groups the days before. Expect some massive arena staging and too many girls to count. Also possibly wtfery announcements.
Golden Bomber (4/27 - 5/6 @10:00 everyday) - and I quote, "Hyper Giga Hybrid Super Subculture Visual Rock." They fuck with SKE on music shows. Fun times.
Sekai no Owari (4/27 @22:00, 5/2 @21:00) - Rock. A quick skim on Youtube seems like pretty upbeat pop-rock with good variety.
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (4/29 @14:00) - Electro-pop. PON PON WEIWEIWEI PONPON WEIWEI PON WEIWEI
AAA (4/29 @22:00) - EDM with a smattering of everything else. The ex-backdancers group that is the poster child for "the generic Avex sound."
BOOM BOOM SATELLITES (4/30 @23:00) - Electronica, electronic rock. No pop here, but an interesting wide variety of sounds.
Nightmare (5/1 @20:00) - Visual Kei. Sounds like standard Jrock/VK fare. Meh.
Shonen no Kaze (5/3 @12:00) - Reggae, hip hop, and ska-core, which is batshit crazy in-your-face awesome.
Koda Kumi (5/3 @22:00) - "Pop" of the mainstream solo artist variety, meaning any genre but tending towards urban and R&B pop. Top notch vocalist and performer. (Maybe compare to Aguilera?)
Yakushimaru Etsuko (5/3 @23:00) - Pop, but also frontgirl of a rock band. (Which in Jpop, can still mean every genre under the sun.) Whispery vocals, has done some notable anime themes. Aforementioned band seems to tend towards laidback-upbeat. (Wiki says they're strongly KayoKyoku influenced, meaning they follow asian melodic patterns more than western, which I heard during the skim.)
Livetune (5/4 @18:30) - Electronic music. If Perfume were Vocaloids, and Nakata was an otaku, more conventional, and on picker-uppers.
Flumpool (5/4 @21:00) - Rock. Can be used to exemplify what the J-rock sound is.
Hyadain (5/4 @22:00) - EVERYTHING. One of the greatest producers in Jpop, with a real gift for melody and flipping the bird to structure and genre boundaries. And sanity in music.
Hamasaki Ayumi (5/4 @23:00) - Pop. In terms of her impact on the industry, Ayumi is Japan's Madonna. (Namie is Beyonce.) Notable for writing her own lyrics from nearly the beginning of her career.
VERBAL (5/5 @21:00) - Rapper. Is like the Will.i.am. of m-Flo's BEP.
Denki Groove (5/6 @20:00) - Electronic music. Man, the Japanese electronic music scene is keyed into my tastes.
See you guys during Music Week!