japanese music.

i have to admit, i didn't really scope out the music scene in tokyo, aside from seeing some band with an extreme harmonica player on a stage outside the tube station.

now I am obsessed with the song in my rockabilly video, but since i can't speak japanese, i can't really figure out what the song is. I've tried every possible way of finding it, but no luck.

in my searching i came across two japanese bands that joebot told me about a long time ago and i sort of forgot about: portugal japan and the polysics. The polysics are pretty main stream i guess, but they were just one of those bands i always heard people talk about but forgot to actually listen to. Here is the new polysics video:

(p.s. all the school kids have book bags like the one in this video, they are so nice, i really wanted one but couldn't find them anywhere.)


here is portugal japan's myspace.