What do you do when you’re a member of a phenomenally successful Japanese boyband? If you’re Jin Akanishi, you go solo and tour the United States. For the past nine years, Akanishi was one-sixth of KAT-TUN, a relatively new song-and-dance group conceived and managed by the institutional idol agency Johnny & Associates, Inc., which has …
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May 14
Kyosuke Himuro Plays It Safe & Sound
I normally enjoy Kyosuke Himuro’s voice, but in this instance it has become My Chemical Romanced, auto-tuned and flattened. It’s not a My Chemical Romance song, but it might as well be. And not one from the good old days when they were interesting, punky and hardcore. “Safe and Sound” was written and composed by …