Haru Nemuri
Courtesy PhotoJapanese artist Haru Nemuri released her latest single “Inori Dake Ga Aru” (“There’s nothing but prayer”) on major digital platforms, along with the accompanying music video.
The video was shot at a nightclub called Takasaki Guild located in Gunma, Japan, that closed its doors on Mar. 27. Takuhiro Koyama — who shot the videos for “Yume wo miyou” and “Kick in the World” off her first album Haru to Shura — helmed the visuals, which sees the indie singer-songwriter performing the number in a claustrophobic space, standing in the spotlight and drowned in glittery confetti towards the end. Koyama is also the director of the short film that Haru Nemuri first contributed a song as its theme.
The 26-year-old artist donated the hair she cut off in the video to the nonprofit Japan Hair Donation & Charity (JHD&C), which supplies medical wigs made from human hair free of charge to children under 18 with cancer.
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The Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey paused one of the band’s annual St. Patrick’s Day shows at MGM Music Hall at Boston’s Fenway Park over the weekend to call out an attendee holding up a MAGA hat.
“If you’re in a room full of people and you want to know who’s in a cult, how do you know who’s in a cult?” Casey asked the crowd on Sunday (March 16), per a video shared to social media. “They’ve been holding up a f—ing hat the whole night to represent a president.”
He then told the Donald Trump-supporting fan, “This is America, there’s no kings here,” before adding, “Anyway, if you mind, sir, we’re gonna play a song about our grandparents and people who fought Nazis in the war and s—. So if you could just shut the f— up for five minutes.”
The “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” band has been open about their contempt for Trump for years. Back in 2022, they performed at the Great Allentown Fair in Pennsylvania and Casey told Rolling Stone, “I felt like we were playing a MAGA flea market. Every other table was selling the MAGA gear and the ‘F— Joe Biden’ gear and all this stuff. I was a little overwhelmed and befuddled. It was like I was dropped into another planet.”
While onstage at the event, Casey told the crowd in a viral moment, “If you’re out there buying these f—ing hats that these swindlers are selling…then you’re part of the problem! Because you’re being duped by the greatest swindler in the history of the world…and a bunch of grifters and billionaires who don’t give a s— about you or your family!”
