| 11:00am | Album Review: Lillies and Remains - Part of Grace | | | | There are two lines on Part of Grace, the first full-length release from Lillies and Remains, that basically sum up the entire album for me. The first is from the second track, "The Fake." The song itself is a dangerous, throbbing slab of post-punk doom. In this context, the line "The more I heard your... |
| 11:00am | Japanator Radio 92 | | | | Ah! They just don't stop coming! We've tried fire, acid, rabid dogs and fire-acid, buy we just can't stop another Japanator Radio from surmounting the hillside and ravaging our tiny hamlet. Despair! This week, incredible new music from Lillies and Remains, a new thing from Gackt, some Buck-Tick (just... | | |
| 4:26pm | Videos of the Week | | | | OK, another Sunday, another look back at a few videos that have been running though my brain lately.First up, here's the new video from Molice for "Ms. Panic":Check out my full Doctor Ray album review for more from those guys.OK, hit the jump for more!Beat Crusaders "Phantom Planet"You may have just... |
| 11:00am | TWIN TAIL | | | | TWIN TAIL, not to be confused with the Japanese metal band Twintail, is a three piece improvisational, instrumental band. Made up of drums, bass and violin, they bring something of a unique sound to the table. That said, they do sound an awful lot like other bands featuring violin, specifically sgt.... |
| 5:00pm | November '09 Calendar - Suicide Ali - Nekocon | | | | November 6-8, 2009Suicide AliNekocon - Hampton Roads Convention Center, Virginia Beach, VASource: Tainted Reality (see below)Tainted Reality presents Suicide Ali In Concert At Nekocon 2009June 17, 2009 - Visual Kei Industrial rockers Suicide Ali are set to make their American East Coast debut at Nekocon... | | |
| 12:00pm | Eastern Youth | | | | Does it seem like a lot of Japanese band's bios start off with "Formed by childhood friends" I know that every band I've been in has been started with/by friends, but I find it amazing that anyone can from a band at a young age, with other young friends, and manage to not only stick together, playing... |
| 12:00pm | Otaku USA Magazine August 2009 | | | | The new issue of Otaku USA Magazine just hit my mailbox, so I thought I'd give you a bit of a run-down to hopefully entice you to check it out when you see it in your favorite local otaku hideout.First up, the big feature (at least as far as ZB's world is concerned) is my interview with Morning Musume... |
| 1:00pm | Beat Crusaders | | | | Beat Crusaders have been making their own brand of power-grunge/indie-rock since the late '90s. While their overarching style is quite simple, three chord rock, they manage to mix things up with lo-fi syths and some clever cover songs. Their love of UK and US rock is obvious, echos of which reverberate... | | |
| 11:00am | Japanator Radio 91 | | | | I am not going to lie to you. This is, in fact, another episode of Japanator Radio! This week, new, crazy-ass stuff from Gackt, some schlock and roll from Vamps, some good old Supercar and the enigmatic Matryoshka in the Artist Spotlight. You don't have this one yet! Get it now! DOWNLOAD EPISODE... | | |
| 3:55am | Videos of the Week | | | | Going to kick off a new feature today, the rather self-explanatory "Videos of the Week." Every week, I'll round up a few of the videos that have caught my eye. They'll be a mix of new and old and not always Japanese, though you can rest assured that most of them will be about Japanese music.Without further... |
| 11:00am | Lite | | | | It's not often that a band becomes more popular outside of its home country before they are equally well known at home, but it would seem as though Lite, an instrumental post-rock progressive band from Japan, has done just that.They've played shows around the world, hitting up the UK and Ireland several... | | |
| 11:00am | Miyavi | | | | Miyavi (Takamasa Ishihara) started his solo career around 2003 after his previous band split. His early style is extremely heavy, almost industrial at time, full of clanging percussion, blast beats and guitars distorted to the point of oblivion. His songs at the time feature fractured time signatures... |
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