New School Kaidan Japanese idol appreciation

Visit Selective Hearing’s documentary post to stream the videos. As one fourth of “The Japan 4”, I invite you to take a look at the documentary videos that Greg made of our trip. I spoke about the trip on a podcast before and I just experienced a great deal of nostalgia from …

I was privileged with the opportunity to guest on Selective Hearing’s latest Roundtable Discussion. It was a four part series recorded on a Sunday evening. For those of you who tuned in live to catch us recording the show, thanks a bunch for the support and discussions! – Dave Episode 4: Scandals & …

We have a little bit of old and new this week as far as releases go. Sadly nothing new from AKS for all of you fanatics but there’s a couple of interesting releases that you should be checking out anyway.  

Recorded October 4th, 2012. Opening: WING – PASSPO☆ Ending: Renai Hunter – Morning Musume [download] Anthony’s Twitter – yoshi_nsk Dae’s Twitter – newschooldae Dave’s Twitter – t3hdave  

The first AKS endorsed solo piano album has been released, featuring the one and only Sakiko Matsui.  

It’s time for another NSKaption. You should hopefully know the drill by now; members of the community supply a caption for the image featured above in the comment section and we all have a laugh about it. This week sees us featuring the lovely ladies from Brand-new Idol Society, who …

So, is it wrong to have idol music be your main diet? Because let’s face it, few exceptions aside, this is basically the frozen Snickers Cheesecake™ of the musical pyramid. A franken-food that takes well-established dishes and slaps on its own commercial, mass-marketable hook. These things are great! These crack-laced …

Anthony and Dae give you the rundown on the latest offering from PASSPO.  

So begins the first week of October. An admittedly light month for all of you AKS nerds out there, although I’m sure that your wallets are thanking you for it. However there’s still plenty to get excited about, with a bunch of great groups all releasing new music this month. …

Recorded September 27th, 2012. Opening: Darling to Madonna – Kikkawa Yuu Ending: Suiyoubi no Alice – AKB48 [download] Anthony’s Twitter – yoshizumitime Dae’s Twitter – newschooldae Dave’s Twitter – t3hdave