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  	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:54:43 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Review: Sparta Locals - Leecher</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:54:43 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Full disclosure. I have done this reviewing-a-Sparta-Locals-album thing before. Looking back now, I was terribly in love with the band and I still think their first three albums are a righteous triptych of Japanese Indie awesome-hood. This is especially the case for 2003&#039;s <i>Second Fanfare</i> and 2004&#039;s <i>Sun, Sun, Sun</i>, ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Hamakita Tsubasa - twenty seven</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:10:31 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hamakita Tsubasa, frontman for Tokyo&#039;s Exprollers, sure seemed like he was having a dandy year when he was twenty seven. Heck, he even named his album after that wonderful landmark of an age! Yet, while <i>twenty seven</i>&#039;s folky tales of true love are a bit of a departure from The ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: MEG - JOURNEY</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/188</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:45:32 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Less than half a year after being doused with bucketfuls of Perfume by producer Nakata Yasutaka on her last album <i>BEAUTIFUL</i>, MEG returns with a new mini-album, <i>JOURNEY</i>. Thanks to the guiding hand of New York&#039;s Shanghai Restoration Project taking over behind the boards, MEG has ditched the dense robo-disco ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Four Tomorrow - Self-Titled</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/187</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:07:14 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The greater Tokyo metropolitan area has a population of more than 30 million people, a good 10 million more than its closest competition, Seoul and Mexico City. More than a quarter of Japan&#039;s population resides in an area that can be traversed in a matter of a couple hours. Whereas ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Perfume - ⊿ (Triangle)</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/186</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:39:53 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s a lot of things I miss about being a young music fan, before I became a jaded, old, heard-it-all snob. I miss hearing the singles for an album on the radio leading up to the album&#039;s release. I miss the feeling of anticipation that I would get on on ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Perfume - GAME</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/185</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:26:21 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Much has been made of Perfume&#039;s long struggle to &quot;make it&quot; and how sweet it is now that they have, but, really, three sort-of cute girls dancing and singing vapid pop songs aren&#039;t anything new to Japan, or any place for that matter. Why they are now so beloved and ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Qomolangma Tomato - Limelight Blue on the Q.T.</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/184</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:26:18 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It may take a while to find Qomolangma Tomato&#039;s second full length, <i>Limelight Blue on the Q.T.</i> in a Japanese store, due to the fact that &quot;Qomolangma&quot; is pronounced &quot;chomoranma&quot;. An alternate name for Mt. Everest, the band&#039;s name is easily forgettable. While touring the smoky live houses of Japan, ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Yura Yura Teikoku - Hollow Me</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/183</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:00:15 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most perfect moments of life is when you put in an album, expecting nothing, and get washed in a different world of sound. This is the lasting impression when Yura Yura Teikoku fills a room with a lazy, wholly atmospheric sound. Reverb delayed guitars chug along as ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Perfect Piano Lesson - modernize.</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/181</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:00:07 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Singing in English has been a common trait for thousands of Japanese artists. The culprits are usually pop artists, who are expected to throw in &quot;I love you&quot; or &quot;everything is all right&quot;, but it&#039;s an infection that has spread among many genres and artists. These bilingual attempts often feel ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Ging Nang Boyz - 17sai</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/182</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:45:42 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whether it was a song about stalking a crush on her way home from school, feeling alienated from one&#039;s family and peers, or how punk rock changed the lives of many a wayward teenager, The Ging Nang Boyz have long mined the confusion and energy of youth in their songs. ...]]></description>
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