Here’s a completely different kind of item for Thursday Hurtsday; cool and exciting idolcore unit KIRAKIRA GERIRA is hanging ’em up.
【大切なお知らせがあります】https://t.co/RlhpgI0cLg
— キラキラゲリラ (@kirakira_gerira) June 14, 2017
That announcement on their website covers it: There’s some kind of dispute about the future of the group, so the whole shebang is going to end, with a final live a month from today. Continue reading
I have been trying for days, no joke, to get this out for you guys. You’d think it’d be easy — it’s just a YouTube playlist! — but I kept running into little obstacles and annoyances and “I guess I’ll just do it for tomorrow” and, well, here we are, most of a week later.
It’s KIRAKIRA GERIRA, who I’ve fielded a very nice request to refer to as KIRAKIRA GUERILLA, which yes, I agree, that’s accurate, but then I looked at a bunch of their web stuff and it’s always GERIRA, so there we’ll stay.
They added a bunch of live video last week, from two separate sets, so here you go:
I’m so ashamed of being a terrible layabout that I’m not even going to READ MORE this thing. Just look at the performances and listen to the music. W00t.
KIRAKIRA GERIRA!
Wait for it
Sorry, I had way too much stupid fun with this last night. I sincerely wished that, rather than a hotel in a large Texas metropolitan area, I was instead near a mixing board so I could do nothing but sample and loop that descent into madness. Continue reading
Epic. Ambitious. Maybe even a little intimidating! But KIRAKIRA GERIRA, who are cool, found a great way to make their announcements for 2017:
— キラキラゲリラ (@kirakira_gerira) January 28, 2017
For an indie, this is what you call “going for it.” Good for them. Continue reading
I know that I’d seen some of you all talking about this cool little project on Facebook at some point, and then they popped up again a few weeks ago and I’d been meaning to them anyway, and this is as good a time as any.
So! KIRAKIRA GERIRA (Twitter). I think the covert art from their first single sums things up pretty well:
What do they sound like? Continue reading
