The Japanese post-rock band toe has made public that their van, which was stuffed with equipment, was stolen last night. They’ve loaded the silver Toyota at 8 PM local time yesterday, and when they went back this morning, they’ve noticed that everything was gone. The total value of the missing equipment, including a Mac Pro [...]
平出規人 (Norihito Hiraide, on the far left) has announced he’ll be leaving OGRE YOU ASSHOLE. The bass-player has decided so because of musical differences. His last performance with the band will be during the ROCK IN JAPAN 2011-festival next month. The band will continue, and the nation-wide tour, which starts later this year, will go [...]
It’s already halfway past 2011, and since I started it last year, I need to continue it. This time it’s my third sampler, and the first one for this year. In this sampler I provide you with 20 songs of various indie releases I enjoyed that were released in the last 6 months. A wide [...]
Just two weeks prior to their Canadian tour (Next Music From Tokyo Vol. 3), NATSUMEN has announced they’ll release a new album. Fracture will be their fifth album after almost three years of silence after releasing Endless Summer Record. The new album will be out on September 28. A tracklist hasn’t been made official yet.
What a busy month. Almost had no time to listen to new music thoroughly, but yet I received a shitload of new albums this week. For some releases I anticipated, I had no time to listen to it, yet others completely took me by surprise. For example, I didn’t have any chance to really listen [...]
Finally a new milestone on my queeste in Japanese music. Today I reached the magic number of 500 official release in my possession. With my latest Jet Set-order, which had eight discs instead of the seven I ordered (I received one omnibus for free from kore records ) I reached a total of 502 releases, [...]
Alternative rock-band SuiseiNoboAz has announced they’re currently working a new album. THE (OVERUSED) END OF THE WORLD and I MISS YOU MUH-FUH (yeah, that’s the title) will be released on 6 July, and contains 11 tracks. One of those tracks, shoegazer, already has been featured on the 36.5℃ compilation album. A cover hasn’t been made [...]
THEラブ人間 (THE LOVE NINGEN) is one of those bands that is gaining more and more fans by the minute. I discovered them about a year ago when I purchased the split-tape they did with ひらくドア (HE LUCK DOOR), and loved their tracks more than the ones by ひらくドア. So I soon after ordered their 2nd [...]
Sad news from Japan today. Kulu Kulu Garden has decided to break up. The band originally formed in 2006, and after a long debate, the band has decided to hold their last live next Sunday, on May 15. It’s hard to put the band in specific genre as they mix multiple genres intoo one mix, [...]
I don’t know if it just went completely passed me, or it is just a recent trend. I know the Japanese music-scene is large but I keep on seeing the same names everywhere. Hisayo for example. I first heard of her when I listened to tokyo pinsalocks. Not long after that she also became the [...]
