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Recommended: Bone Machine, The Dawn. Anusaya staff are
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HAGGIS

March 15, 2013

HAGGIS

by Denise • Explore, Recommend • Tags: bagpipe, haggis, Japan, punk, scottish

Irish! Scottish! Japanese! Punk!! HAGGIS is a punk band with a unique voice – taking their sub-genre, mastering it, and spinning out an energy that is infectious and punk as f-ck! HAGGIS are Yumeho (Vocals, Bagpipe, Banjo), Hiroki (Mandolin, Vocals) , TAT$ULOW (Guitar, Chorus), Kouhei (Bass, Chorus) and YASU (Drums). homepage audioleaf

Валентин Стрыкало (Valentin Strykalo)

March 14, 2013

Валентин Стрыкало (Valentin Strykalo)

by Denise • Profile • Tags: Ukraine, Valentin Strykalo, Валентин Стрыкало

Yuri Kaplan (vocals, guitar) Andrew Tropeshko (guitar) Yevgeny Ilyin (bass) Anton Shchelkonogov (drums) Валентин Стрыкало (Valentin Strykalo) is a Ukrainian alternative rock group created in 2010, by soloist Yuri Kaplan. Through a series of vlog-styled videos; Yury’s tongue in cheek fictional character Valentin Strykalo, was first introduced to the public in 2008. Presenting himself as [...]

99RadioService

March 1, 2013

99RadioService

by Denise • Recommend • Tags: 99RadioService, Japan, modern, pop, rock

Formed in July 2007, this five-piece is inspired by The Beatles, Buddy Holly, The Hollies, and The Byrds. 99RadioService (pronounced nine-nine-radio-service and not nintey-nine) takes those rock influences refining them and creating a modern pop experience. 99RadioService are Ko-hey (Vocals, Guitar), Ko-ta (Guitar, Chorus), Katsu (Bass), Ne-gi (Drums), Go-i (Keyboard). homepage myspace

Keytalk

March 1, 2013

Keytalk

by Denise • Recommend • Tags: dance rock, fusion, guitar pop, Japan, jazz, Keytalk, punk

This foursome blends 4-on-the-floor dance rock, punk, guitar pop, jazz and fusion into a futuristic fresh sound that attacks like a tsunami. In 2009, former band “REAL” changed their name to Keytalk — members are Yuu Nakatomo (vocal, guitar), Yagi Yuuki (drum), Ono Takemasa (guitar) and Sudou Yoshikatsu (bass, chorus). homepage myspace

LISA=OFFREE  (リサ=オフリー)

March 1, 2013

LISA=OFFREE (リサ=オフリー)

by Denise • Recommend • Tags: garage rock, groovy, Japan, LISA=OFFREE, pop, post rock, リサ=オフリー

Formed in January 2006, リサ=オフリー (LISA=OFFREE) take post-rock’s grandeur amplifying it to garage-rock excess, creating an unpredictable, accessible, groovy pop-rock concoction that seems a lot like post-rock-meets-pop. リサ=オフリー (LISA=OFFREE) members are frontman Nakajima Naoto, guitarist Kubo Taishi, bass player Fujinami Daisuke and drummer Yamanaka Tadasi. homepage audioleaf myspace

Crooked Valentine

February 14, 2013

Crooked Valentine

by Denise • Explore, Recommend • Tags: Canada, Crooked Valentine

If you pulled the wings off Symphony X’s technical heights and chained Melissa Auf Der Maur to a mike somewhere in Toronto, Ontario Canada, then you would have created the molten metal Zombie Rock band Crooked Valentine. Fronted by wild woman Lindsay Valentine, Doc Harlot on Bass, Schlossenator on guitar and Lady Machete on drums, [...]

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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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