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THE CREATOR OF

THE CREATOR OF

Members are: Shigeyuki Suzuki – vocal, guitar SAKAMOTO – bass (ex-member) Shibuya – drums (ex-member) Daisuke Takeda – bass, guitar (support member) Hiroki Furutani (Kuroi Mori) – pro-tools (support member) Actually now THE CREATOR OF is Shigeyuki Suzuki‘s solo project. THE CREATOR OF is Japanese band using in their music mixing of different genres such [...]

inspire:tion

inspire:tion

Members: 瀬木 ヤコー (Yako Segi) – vocals, guitar, programming 中越 亮佑 (Ryosuke Nakagoshi) – bass, programming ゆうこさん (Yuko-san) – vocals It all started in the 90s when 瀬木 ヤコー (Yako Segi) and decided to start a band called snooze. They both were fans of bands as Radiohead and Nirvana and wanted to become musicians themselves, [...]

The Bulletmonks

The Bulletmonks

members: Tyler Vox (Vocals, Guitars) Dangerous Dan (Guitars) Spreace Jackson (Bass Guitar) M.dogg (Drums, Percussion) When two brothers of Melbournese descent, G.I. son Spreace Jackson, and a half French drummer get together in a former pickle factory in Nuremburg, Germany to conquer the world of rock n roll, The Bulletmonks is what you get. If [...]

ACRYLICSTAB

ACRYLICSTAB

ACRYLICSTAB is a Japanese pop-rock duo consisting of the vocalist UYU and guitarist / programmer 阿部隆大 (Ryudai Abe). They band became active in 2006 and have released multiple demo’s and 2 mini-albums to date. Since June 2010 they also started to spread their music for free via Philosonide Factory, the label of Ryudai Abe. Their [...]

LAZYgunsBRISKY

LAZYgunsBRISKY

LAZYgunsBRISKY is an all-girl hard rock quartet from Tokyo, Japan. Comprising of members Lucy (vocals), Izumi (guitar), Azu(bass, vocals), and Moe (drums). The band draws influence from 60s and 80s rock and roll, replete with fat guitars and sludgy bass. LAZYgunsBRISKY current sound could be described as an updated take on the likes of Guns [...]

Mógil

Mógil

Mógil are a quartet hailing from Iceland and Belgium. The bandmembers are Heiða Árnadóttir (vocals), Ananta Roosens (violin), Joachim Badenhorst (clarinet/saxophone) and Hilmar Jensson (guitar). Their songs are all sung in Icelandic, true to old Icelandic folk texts. In 2006, Mógil toured Iceland, playing in small churches throughout the country. Their debut-album, Ró, was also [...]

Billiano FeVeR

Billiano FeVeR

The name “Billiano FeVeR” is much more than an attribute to describe an hot up and coming Hip Hop artist. It is about a journey that started out with a little boy who at 14 years of age ran away from his home in Trenton, NJ and never looked back in the name of sanity, [...]

Francis and the Lights

Francis and the Lights

Championed by multiple artists, Francis and the Lights make a compelling case for the return of Blue Eyed Soul. More accurately though, they are a Rock and Roll band, whose leader, Francis Farewell Starlite, writes Pop songs that make him want to dance. After two widely circulated EPs, a buzzed about music video that leaped [...]

Yeallow

Yeallow

members: Fred C (vocal, guitar, keyboard) Pascal C (vocal, guitar, keyboard) Fred T (guitar, chorus) Bill O (bass) Olivier “Piment” (drums, chorus) The Yeallow project saw the light of day in 2006, when Fred C and Pascal decided to take pleasure in merging the cultures and musical experiences of both of them. Finding it difficult [...]

Crash Encore

Crash Encore

“It’s not just the music of Crash Encore that’s unique, but their approach in getting it out to the masses. We’ve seen it before: A band releases a single for free on MySpace, hoping you’ll buy the CD. For the San Diego group, they’re giving away a free song every week. The varied styles between [...]

Living Colour

Living Colour

members: Corey Glover (vocals) Doug Wimbish (Bass, Vocals) Will Calhoun (Drums, Vocals) Vernon Reid (Guitar, Vocals) Not gone, and definitely not forgotten. Living Colour is a hard rock group formed in New York city in 1984. They signed to Epic Records in 1987, and released their first album Vivid in 1988. Stylistically their music is [...]

Soledad Brothers

Soledad Brothers

Johnny Walker (Guitars, Vocals, Harmonica) Benjamin Swank (Drums, Percussion) Oliver Henry (Guitars, Vocals, Horns, Keys) Dechman (Pedal Steel, Keys, Strings) Taking their name from a trio of convicted felons who were members of the Black Panther Party—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette—incarcerated at Soledad Prison and killed by police fire, the Soledad Brothers formed [...]

Wir sind Helden

Wir sind Helden

members: Judith Holofernes (singer,  guitar) Jean-Michel Tourette (keyboard, guitar) Pola Roy (percussion) Mark Tavassol (bass) Wir sind Helden’s music style is self-described — 28% Synthie, 34% Punk und 38% Pop” — Synthie-Punk-Pop. Apart of a second wave of the “NDW,” the “Neue deutsche Welle;” German bands  that sing and write songs in their native German. [...]

The Dirty White

The Dirty White

members: Josh McDowell (Guitar, Vox) Matthew Tarlton (Drums) Bill Grant (Bass, Vox) Noisy and adventurous, The Dirty White rocks like few aspiring musicians dare to these days.The Florence-based trio isn’t the type to play it safe. In a rock scene littered with paint-by-numbers pop rock or “hardcore,” The Dirty White takes the road less traveled [...]

The Von Zippers

The Von Zippers

members: Alan Wayne (guitar, vocals) Doug Boland (bass) Rob (drums) Hailing from a place known for a thriving economy equated more to rampant oil production than no-frills record production, Calgary’s Von Zippers brandish a special kind of raw-nerve, white-knuckle delivery that thrives on elements of simplicity and point-of-contact. Some eight years in existence as a [...]

Euphobic

Euphobic

members: Sean Thornton Jon Nelson Steve Dalessandro Andrew Unferdorfer Euphobic is an alternative, experimental music collaboration. They began in 2007 when founders Jon Nelson and Sean Thornton began swapping tracks and bonding over shared goals. Because Sean is a Canton native and Jon hails from Barberton, necessity dictated that Euphobic’s first EP, Songs for Horatio, [...]

GASOLINE

GASOLINE

members: GAN (guitar, vocal) GONNA-MOVE (bass, chorus) JUSTEEN (drums) The firestorm that is known as GASOLINE is now ablaze! In 1993, the fire was lit. Gan and Shuhei-Rock were playing around their hometown of Yokkaichi, Japan in a blues. If you ask them they will say that they met at a Karate Do Jyo. They [...]

Thornwill

Thornwill

members: Almos Gabor (Vocals) Tamas Paroczi (Bass) Krisztian Agoston (Guitars) Marton Szabo (Guitars) Andras Balazs (Drums) In 2004, two friends driven by the love of metal music, Márton Szabó and Krisztián Ágoston founded Thornwill. The goal of the founder members was to create really hard, powerful, melodic metal music that touched people easily. First, Dániel [...]

Plastic Soul Band

Plastic Soul Band

members: Kenji “KNG” Okada (guitar) Kyoko Okada (vocal) Daisuke Joe Motohashi (drums) “Hamber” Yamazaki (saxophone) Mariko Sekine (keyboards) Koji Ichikawa (bass) Influenced by Soul, R&B, Rock, Jazz and Reggae — Plastic Soul Band is rhythm and blues personified. Enhanced by the band’s vocal harmonies the sultry vocals of front woman Kyoko, Plastic Soul Band’s rockin’ [...]

Kulu Kulu Garden

Kulu Kulu Garden

Kulu Kulu Garden was formed by Ryotaro Aoki (guitar and music) and Kotone Miyahara (vocals, bass and lyrics), in Tokyo, Japan. In 2006, Kulu Kulu Garden began playing shows and recording demos in the Tokyo area. Kyohei Takahashi (drums) of Far France joined and rounded out the line-up as a supporting drummer in late 2008. [...]

DACHAMBO

DACHAMBO

Dubbed Digital Hippies; Dachambo, with dijuridu and twin drums, fat bottom bass lines, loud and soulful guitar mixed with a digital sound Dachambo is a band which is hard to pigeonhole in any category of music.  Loving and appreciating all types of world and international music, this love of music has greatly influenced the band’s [...]

Asai Kenichi (浅井健一)

Asai Kenichi (浅井健一)

With over 50 albums, Asai Kenichi is perhaps Japan’s most original and prolific artist, and leader of bands Sherbets, JUDE, Ajico, Asai Kenichi solo, and 1990s legends Blankey Jet City. Combined with his artwork on album covers, books, posters and clothing, his contribution to modern Japanese creative culture is comparable with that of film director [...]

Four Minutes Til Midnight

Four Minutes Til Midnight

members: Eli Taylor (Vocal) Kenta Hayashi (Guitar) U-Kay- (Bass) Josh Vore (Drums) Four Minutes Til Midnight started like most bands do, in a garage between a couple of friends wanting to express themselves through music. The project which initially started with vocalist Eli Taylor and bassist Jonathan Green began to blossom in 2004, when the [...]

Couch

Couch

Couch’s musical style defines the words “Japanese Indie Pop.” A rock guitar riff here, a cool jazz vocal there, Couch draws elements from different genres combining them with their particular brand of mainstream pop. The band creates a pop sound that is defined by Couch and defies maintsream pop clichés. Couch was formed in November [...]

CEILÍ MOSS

CEILÍ MOSS

Taking their name from the Irish word for a party with traditional dance music, “Ceilí” and “Moss” the nickname of Alain Mossiat, boss of the pub “L”Eblouissant,” in Namur, where the band first learned to deal with stage fright, back in the early 90s. CEILÍ MOSS is an acoustic folk-rock band from Belgium founded in [...]

Super Butter Dog

Super Butter Dog

Inspired by such bands as Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Stone, Super Butter Dog’s funk-rock sound is as refined as it is funky. Combining cool guitar grooves, vintage beats and keyboard with their own sophisticated style, they bring a modern take to this classic genre. The group was on extended hiatus until 2007, with [...]

Bluestone Company

Bluestone Company

members: Toshihiro Sumitomo (guitar, vocal) Taizo Takafuji (drums) Yoshihiro Ogasahara (bass) The Savoy Truffle was formed in Osaka, Japan in 1991. Over the next fourteen years, the band released five albums to rave reviews and touring the USA, Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, Austria and Italy. In January 2002, The Savoy Truffle entered a recording [...]

Jude

Jude

members: Asai Kenichi (Guitar, Vocal) Watanabe Keiichi (Bass) Ikehata Junji (Drums) Since the disbandment of Blankey Jet City, the band Jude is the third masterwork from the creative genius of Asai Kenichi. Dazzling guitar and drum work coupled with Kenichi’s tortured vocals is a force that should be experienced. Conceived as a return to a [...]

FACT

FACT

members: Takahiro (Guitar, Vocal) Kazuki (Guitar, Vocal) Hiro (Vocal) Eiji (Drums, vocal) Tomohiro (Bass, Vocal) Since forming 10 years ago over a mutual love for heavy music, this five-piece has been developing a unique, technically impressive sound that fuses myriad musical influences into something altogether new and indisputably their own. “The band started out being [...]

Shachi

Shachi

members: TAKE (Vocal & Guitar) HIDETA (Vocal & Bass) Hankn (Chorus & Drums) Post-punk, melocore, self-described punk, no matter what label you use to describe them, Shachi delivers straightforward punk with award winning talent and in-your-face instrumentals. From the ska-punk of “Angry Day”, to the pop-punk of “Never Mind”, they hold nothing back, bringing each [...]

Dusty Rhodes and the River Band

Dusty Rhodes and the River Band

members: Dustin Apodaca (vocals, keys) Kyle Divine (guitar, vocals Edson Choi (vocals, guitar) Andrea Babinski (violin, vocals) Eric Chirco (drums) Brad Babinski (bass) Dusty Rhodes and the River Band have spent the past three years playing every shitty dive bar from the South to the Midwest and back to southern California, sleeping on couches, and [...]

LoNero

LoNero

members: Bill Lonero (Lead/Harmony/Rhythm Guitar) Brandon Hayes (Rhythm/Harmony Guitar) Mike McKaigg (Bass) Marco Bicca (Drums) There’s quite literally an endless amount of music genres these days, but none focuses more on the talent and melodic power of a guitar than guitarcore. A new term coined by California instrumental guitarist Bill Lonero (whose band LoNero — [...]

Poets of the Fall

Poets of the Fall

Poets of the Fall (POTF) are an independent rock band from Helsinki, Finland. Since their inception, Poets Of The Fall have been an example of the positive evolution of rock. With solid, masterful song crafting, without becoming over-the-top and retaining a mainstream accessibility. Founded in 2003, with the collaboration of rock singer Marko “Mark” Saaresto [...]

Chris Duarte group

Chris Duarte group

Though Duarte has played a limited number of U.S. dates in recent years with the Japanese band Bluestone Company backing him, he performs primarily as a power trio, the Chris Duarte Group. Chris Duarte, San Antonio native was born in February 1963, the same year as his Strat. His goal, to be a successful musician [...]

フジファブリック [Fujifabric]

フジファブリック [Fujifabric]

Members: Shimura Masahiko Vocals, Guitar Katou Shinichi 2003 Bass Yamauchi Souichirou 2004 Guitar Kanazawa Daisuke 2003 Keyboards From jazz to rock and everything in between Fujifabric manages to amaze the listener with their musical styling, while still maintaining a sound that is purely their own. From the jazz sound of “Kieru Na Taiyou” to the [...]

Analogfish

アナログフィッシュ [Analogfish]

Sasaki Kentaro Bass, Vocals Shimooka Akira Guitar, Vocals Saito Syuichiro Drums, Vocals The rock trio Analogfish consists of one drum kit, one guitar, and one bass. What they lack in physical stage presence is more than made up in their instrumental talents and three part vocals. Though Kentaro Sasaki’s voice is predominant. Akira Shimooka’s co-vocal [...]

10-FEET

10-FEET

Takuma Vocals, Guitar Naoki Bass, Vocals Kouichi Drums Known for not taking their celebrity personas very seriously, 10-FEET isn’t your typical punk band. They are considered to be one of the best live bands in Japan today. 10-FEET‘s energy both on stage and in their music continues to impress fans and critics alike. Originally they [...]

The Captains

The Captains

Kizuhiko – Guitar, Vocal Hizashi – Guitar Ted – Bass Yosuke – Drums In 1966, the Beatles visited Japan and performed a series of concerts. The excitement around this visit sparked the imagination of young musicians, influencing not only their music, but the band’s style of dress. These new ’60s Japanese rock groups were called [...]

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