QUEENS

You Are Hereby Invited to Enjoy This Awesome Live Video

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This post exists entirely to broadcast this absolutely exceptional show from QUEENS.

You’re welcome.

Treat Yourself to This QUEENS Song

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At first thought, when I saw this in my list of good Weekender things, I had no more intention of doing anything else with this QUEENS MV than to do exactly that, feel good about my choices, and move on with my life. But then I recalled the last time I had occasion to celebrate QUEENS in such a way, which in retrospect felt like I was giving them short shrift for no good reason, so I opted to listen to the whole thing:

And friend, I am both very super into this song, but it also made me wonder — is QUEENS pretty much the best thing right now, or what? Continue reading →

Your Homicidols Guide to Tokyo Idol Festival Online 2020

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Attending the Tokyo Idol Festival has always been on my bucket list. The primary barrier for me had been, having grown up in the Sonoran desert, a complete lack of tolerance for the humidity levels of Odaiba during Japan’s late summer. Hope was kindled in my desert rat heart when it was announced that TIF 2020 would be held in October when the heat and humidity is much less gruesome. This hope was, of course, dashed completely by the COVID crisis. TIF organizer’s decision to deliver the festival entirely online for 2020 has generated a new kind of hope. This livestream format gives many of us foreigners the opportunity to check “Attended Tokyo Idol Festival” off our bucket lists, even if the accomplishment will have a COVID-shaped asterisk next to it.

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Whether you have already invested in tickets to Tokyo Idol Festival Online or are considering the reasonably hefty purchase, we have prepared the following resources for you.  Continue reading →

Let’s Catch up Real Quick with QUEENS

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All right, this is cheating a little bit, but QUEENS dropped these tracks when I was in the middle of the actual Checking Up mode, and then yeah, I kind of forgot to close this loop. Ain’t a whole lot else happening, so let’s do it!

Hey, QUEENS! Remember them? Good fun, usually a lot more idol than rock but often plenty enough rock to be worth mentioning. Sister group to and technically kind of a follow-up from PIIIIIIIN. Good times. They released an album back in June, and it was worth a few spins. A couple of weeks ago, with no real fanfare, they dropped a couple of tracks onto Soundcloud, and I think you should listen to them because, well, you should listen to them. It’s good for the soul.

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This New QUEENS Stuff Is More Fun Than Anything Else You’ll Do Today

/ Homicidol Maniac

And in continuing the quick recent trend of things being announced and/or released on the final day of the Heisei Era, we have QUEENS, who are lots of fun anyway but capable of turning that all the way up to 12 just to spite your grumpiness you big, grumpy bear, who announced at their one-man the release of their first full album for June by dropping an MV that I just very loudly said on Twitter that I’d anticipated, which turned out to be for the wrong reasons by bear with me!

First, the MV that I urge you to take Dramamine before viewing:

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Let’s Continue to Get Down with QUEENS

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I’m so annoyed with myself that getting back around to this new QUEENS MV took until Saturday, but so it goes, friends, and frankly it’s worth the wait. How frank? This frank:

Tasty indeed!

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Here Are the Oyasumi Hologram Tour Dates

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The cats have been trickling out of their bags regarding dates and locations for the pretty-darn-exciting Oyasumi Hologram+TORIENA+NECRONOMIDOL tour coming up in November, and OyaHolo went ahead and all but published the whole scheduling shebang the other day in their push-post to double up on their crowdfunding goals:

California dates, or some of them at least, with TORIENA; East Coast to some extent with NECRONOMIDOL

I don’t know why I feel like there’s more yet to come, but I kind of do. Anyway! It’s good to know where to be, and when, as available. If you’re down for an organized get-together in Philadelphia, let me know! And if you organize something in New York, also let me know!

Update: There was more to come.

Plus Necroma’s appearances:

In Which the Source Makes the Post and Let’s Just Leave the Rest Alone

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That’s right, QUEENS. They’re good. Here it is:

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QUEENS Came out Pretty Dang Cool

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From the ashes of PIIIIIIIN, QUEENS (Twitter) have entered into the world. This is known! I had been on the fence about whether to feature them outright, given that, obvious advancing maturity aside, this was a unit that was going to be emphatic less on the rock and more on the cool. And they are! The sound and style are described as “dance rock,” which is totally fine and in fact connects directly to one of my very favorite idol things, but it can’t always be about the Maniac behind the site, you know?


The simplest of things, man

“Dance rock” is right, though; it’s like a defused version of OG Osaka Shunkashuto, or if somebody paid a vocaloid composer* to write something a little funkier. Those instrumentals are absolutely killing me.

I’ve been keyed in on QUEENS ever since I found out about them — ex-PIIIIIIIN will do that to you — so you may have seen some of this stuff in the Weekender, but I figure that it’s worth adding here for that fuller Queens experience:

Plus more on Soundcloud!

See? Idols much more normal than homi, though pleasant enough overall. There’s an emerging trend for idols of this flavor, too, so I could see them having a pretty good year.

*I’m looking directly in winter mute’s direction