Really can’t get enough of Japan. You can spend years on searching the Japanese music for great bands and then just stumble upon some band that can’t even be described in normal words.

Plus-Tech Squeeze Box is technically one of the j-pop types called picopop, practically it is a crazy mix of electronic, more traditional j-pop, [...]

Have I mentioned that most interesting indie bands are from Japan? No? Then this is my official statement: the most interesting indie bands are from Japan!

The best description for YMCK is 8-bit-jazz.

Anoice is a six piece post-rock/folk band from Japan.

You definitely want to ask: “And that’s it?” Yeah! Cause I just don’t now words that are beautiful enough to describe this music. But I’ll try.
So two guitars/mandolins, keyboards, bass, viola and drums, not standard set, but noting extraordinary. In their 2006 release “Remmings” these dudes are [...]

Needless to say that Japanese people “think different”(c). You can see it everywhere from giant anime robots to oldest samurai traditions. Their music is also under this spell.

The band that will “headline” this post is called Despairs Ray. They play something called j-rock (j-metal sometimes) and belong to the visual key movement. J-rock is generally [...]