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Anusaya Updates 2013.05.01: Profile: Crossfaith, inspire:tion.
Recommended: Bone Machine, The Dawn. Anusaya staff are
going on a much deserved holiday. We will be back and ready
to rock on June 1st!

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Bone Machine

May 1, 2013

Bone Machine

by Denise • Recommend • Tags: alternative, electronica, rock

Blending electronic music, rock beats and pop melodies; Bone Machine is a Japanese alternative rock power duo from Kyoto, Japan. Formed in 2007, by Yuya Nakamura on vocals, and guitar – In 2008 bassist Jiro Fujita joined and the lineup was complete. Bone Machine’s music is available at soundcloud, free downloads uploaded frequently. homepage soundcloud [...]

The Dawn

May 1, 2013

The Dawn

by Denise • Recommend • Tags: Dawn, funky, Japan, rock, soul

With funky rhythms and solid beats interpreted by rich and soulful female vox — The Dawn is a four-piece taking rock-sensibilities in their own new direction. Formed in March 2008, The Dawn are Harumi Saito (Vocals), Seiya Kurauchi (Guitar), Ryota Ogasawara (Bass) and Minakawa (Drums). homepage myspace twitter

BADDHIST

April 15, 2013

BADDHIST

by Denise • Recommend • Tags: BADDHIST, funk, Japan, pop, rock

Formed in August 2010, BADDHIST is a rock trio, mainly working out of Tokyo, Japan. The band’s mainly rock sound, is infused with a funk and pop edge. BADDHIST are bassist Tomotsugu Nagamatsu, drummer Takuma Koyama, and Toru Matsura on vocals and guitar. homepage twitter facebook

Jambinai 잠비나이

April 15, 2013

Jambinai 잠비나이

by Riento • Recommend • Tags: experimental, Jambinai, korean, post rock, post-metal, traditional, 잠비나이

Jambinai (잠비나이) is a three-peice band from South Korea.  This unique post-rock & post-metal band has a very interesting sound due to using traditional Korean instruments in their melodies.  They have really atmospheric, emotional and heavy sound that’s charming you through your ears. With winning the 2011 Hello Rookie Jury Prize Jambinai came up with [...]

Rupa & the April Fishes

April 1, 2013

Rupa & the April Fishes

by Denise • Recommend • Tags: Rupa & the April Fishes, USA

The musicians, Aaron Kierbel and Safa Shokrai, Misha Khalikulov and Mario Alberto Silva, came from all over the world, converging in San Francisco USA to become the April Fishes with frontwoman Rupa Marya, the self-described “ringleader for the band of misfits” whose Hindustani roots settled in California. In their work together, musical languages converge from [...]

April Fools

April 1, 2013

April Fools

by Denise • Explore, Recommend • Tags: April Fools, France

“In 80′s we trust!” From Toulouse, France — April Fools is a subjective melting pot of post-punk ’79, cold wave and new wave music. With the members of the band channeling the outrageous rock idols from the eighties, with arrogence, two bass players and no guitar. April Fools are; Lôvinyl (vocals), HooverBass (bass), CornerBoy (bass) [...]

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  • Bone Machine

    Bone Machine

  • The Dawn

    The Dawn

  • BADDHIST

    BADDHIST

  • Jambinai 잠비나이

    Jambinai 잠비나이

  • Rupa & the April Fishes

    Rupa & the April Fishes

  • April Fools

    April Fools

  • The April Fish

    The April Fish

  • APRIL FOOL

    APRIL FOOL

  • Fooling April

    Fooling April

  • The Calendar of Happy Days

    The Calendar of Happy Days

  • Asakusa Jinta

    Asakusa Jinta

  • Ailiph Doepa

    Ailiph Doepa

  • Capture Of The Sky

    Capture Of The Sky

  • HAGGIS

    HAGGIS

  • 99RadioService

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Articles

  • Next Music From TOKYO Vol 4 (May 2012)
    May 01, 2012
    Canada’s premiere Japan underground music tour; Next Music From TOKYO will return again this May for its fourth showcase. Featuring indie rock legends ZAZEN BOYS, hip-hop/urban music two-piece group_inou, folk/gypsy duo CHARAN PO RANTAN and
  • Physical Digital
    Apr 01, 2010
    CDs are DEAD! Long live CDs! A paradox. A puzzle for consumers, for distributors, and especially artists. Music, use to be strictly a live social gathering. But, since the invention of the radio (and to some degree printed music)… music is
  • MusicBrainz part Deux
    Mar 15, 2010
    What is MusicBrainz? It is a user-maintained open community that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata in the form of a relational database. If you don’t know what all that means, you should read the first tutorial; here.

Explore

  • April Fools
    Apr 01, 2013
    “In 80′s we trust!” From Toulouse, France — April Fools is a subjective melting pot of post-punk ’79, cold wave and new wave music. With the members of the band channeling the outrageous rock idols from the eighties,
  • Fooling April
    Apr 01, 2013
    Formed in 2002, Fooling April is a pop rock piano-driven quartet from Philadelphia, PA USA. Selected in 2007, to represent and launch American Idol Underground; the online version of the TV competition; landed the band on Fox TV and NBC TV in
  • The Calendar of Happy Days
    Mar 15, 2013
    Formed in 2007, The Calendar of Happy Days’ original “catchy-pop” sound has a frosty texture – which has lead to an alternative rock band sound in recent years. Their music has a sense of impatience, yet quirky, with
  • Asakusa Jinta
    Mar 15, 2013
    Calling themselves Asianica Hard March Band, Asakusa Jinta is a hardcore marching brass band from Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan. Asakusa Jinta accordions, saxophones and trombones play lightning fast happy melodies while tubas, stand-up bass and drums

Live Reports

  • Akabane Vulgars On Strong Bypass
    Nov 15, 2012
    Akabane Vulgars On Strong Bypass—that’s a mouthful—have been driving across the U.S., playing as many dates as they could, wherever they could. John Genzale saw them play at the SXSW festival earlier this year, and was so impressed, he
  • Metal Battle Japan 2012
    Nov 01, 2012
    Once a year one of the biggest heavy music fests Waken Open Air (W:O:P) takes place in Germany. This year it was held on 2nd-4th of August near small town called Waken thus the origin of the name of the fest. Every year in different countries take
  • Aiha Higurashi Returns to New York—or—Uhnellys and THE GIRL Take a Trip to New York
    Sep 01, 2012
    Aiha Higurashi had been announcing a desire to play New York again since before the formation of her new band, THE GIRL. They arrived here with a Japanese duo called Uhnellys, who are made up of Midi, a female drummer, and Kim, a male
  • From A to ZZZ’s
    Aug 01, 2012
    The other night I stopped in for a beer at Lone Wolf, a bar out in Bushwick, Brooklyn. There were only a few people there. The only other time I had been in Lone Wolf was to see ZZZ’s and some other bands. Then it was crowded. I took my beer and

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