Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

American journalists often complain that the Japanese tend to take elements of Western culture, most notably music, and give it a quirky, frequently incomprehensible (at... A Japanese new-rock primer ...

3. Boris, Pink Few acts are more well-known or revered in the drone metal scene than the Japanese band Boris. However, throughout their 14-year history and immense discography, they’ve shown ...

Jazz musician Japanese Breakfast's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more. All About Jazz Essentials. ... quickly making Japanese Breakfast a household name among ...

Much of Japanese jazz in the early 2000s sounds indistinguishable from its Western counterparts. From the beginning of the American Jazz Age, Japan had staked its own claim to the music even as its ...

The 24-year-old Japanese-American musician composes jazz-infused indie pop, ... The album opener, ... Semones switched to guitar and even joined a rock band program as an extracurricular activity.

The "100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time" have been chosen by Rolling Stone Japan.Well, they've been chosen by RS contributing editor Kawasaki Daisuke, who also founded the very stylish ...

In J-rock circles, 1994 will forever be remembered as the year visual kei broke out of its aphrodisiacal pupa with ecstatic fervour. Alongside L’Arc-en-Ciel’s Tierra, Mother achieved huge ...

Toe are a Japanese quartet who’ve been putting out a pretty consistent stream of mathy post-rock since 2005. Their last proper LP was 2015’s Hear You; since then, they’ve shared a live album ...