Their show will be held at Billboard Live TOKYO (Tokyo) on Tuesday 18 September, 2018.
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According to Oricon, HUSKING BEE’s member were Isobe Masafumi (Vocal), Kudo "Tekkin" Tetsuya (Bassist) and Hiramoto Leona (Drummer). They debuted in 1995 by "NOT SUPERSTITIOUS III". Hirabayashi Kazuya, today is the lead singer and guitarist of the band Fine Lines, joined as a new member in 2000. Despite having many Japanese young fans, they dissolved without any reasons on 6 March 2005.
The band reunited in February 2012.
Their sound is similar to the American band Jimmy Eat World, due to sharing the same producer, Mark Trombino.
ASPARAGUS (Asparagus) is a Japanese three-piece rock band. They belongs to 3P3B. Members: Shinobu Watanabe (VOCAL & GUITAR), Masakazu Iseze (DRUMS & VOCAL), Hara Naoto (BASS & VOCAL).
They were formed in Yokohama in February 2002. They established our own label "STACKERS" in 3P3B Ltd. and they released the first album "Tiger Style" on 11th November the same year. In 2004, they had the first trial in the indies world that releases two albums simultaneously from our own label STACKERS and PIZZA OF DEATH RECORDS , and they achieve the first nationwide tour.
After that, although they was actively performing live activities, in 2006, base Yamashita left. On January 25 the following year, the former SHORT CIRCUIT Hara Nao was brought up as a new bassist, and on October 10 they released first album "MONT BLANC" for three years. Since then, they have been constantly working with an emphasis on live activities. In addition, they organize a voluntary event "BKTS" on an irregular basis , and bands such as the band apart , COMEBACK MY DAUGHTERS , lostage etc. are participating.
Hawaiian 6 (Hawaiian Six) is a Japanese three-piece rock band.
Members:
Yuta Yasuno (YUTA, Clutch) - vocals, guitar
Yuhiro Hatano (HATANO, Diesel) - Drums
Naomi Uemura (GURE) - base, chorus.
Bacho was formed in 2002 with 4 members Kitinaga Kinya (Gt), Itami Tominagi (Ba), Ishida Kazuya (Vo) and Arikawa(Dr) .
In 2004 vocalist Ishida withdrew, Kitahata served as vocalist, and it became a 3-piece band. They belonged to "Immortality" production.
2007 Gt Miura Yoshito joined. It became 4 pieces again. 2008 Dr Arikawa withdrew. Takayuki Kazuhiro joined as Dummer.
2009 two songs from cosmicnote demo "Define me" released. In the same year, 1st mini album "Request" released.
In November 2010, 2nd mini album "Reconquista" was released. 2012 V.A. "Breaking Concept vol.2" released. July 31, 2013 7 "EP" fallen leaves "released. 2014 V.A. "cosmicnote 10" released. February 2015 1st full album "Supreme New Memory" released.
March 2015, they had "Supreme New Memorial" tour.
2016
January, liveshow "GOJOGEN 36" was held.
February 24The first DVD on February 24 'Supreme New Memory DVD ~ Record of Memory ~' released.
May 1st "GOJOGEN Vol.37" was held at Shimokitazawa ERA. They also appeared in various festivals and events.
November Taiwan TOUR dedicated, the only one-man live "GOJOGEN 38 - ONEMAN -" held in Kobe.
BACKSKiD is a punk band in Kagoshima . Members: Simon BOY(vo/gt), Can(vo/ba), LOVE Ichiro(dr/cho)
They work nationwide with catchy and soulful songs as melodious weapons.
2015.08.23 they declared affiliation to Eleven Thirty! !
2016.04.28 1st mini album "PAY BACK" released
2016.12.072nd mini album "WAY YOU PLAY" released
Ohta was a boy when he was taught his first three chords on the ukulele by his mother. He entered an amateur contest at age 9 and won the $10 first prize. Three years later he met Eddie Kamae on the beach, at the time considered the best ukulele player in the world, and became his student.
He enlisted in the US Marine Corps and served ten years. While stationed in Japan as an interpreter, Ohta made his first recordings and played a number of events. He was a guest on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1955.
In 1964 he succeeded in having a hit song with the single Sushi and signed a five-year contract with Decca Records.
Recognized by many as the world's most diversified Ukulele player; recording music that is categorized as Pop Music, Romantic Music, Jazz, Traditional Hawaiian music and with orchestras. He was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame in 2006.
The first collaboration for Herb Ohta and Andre Popp was released in the US by A&M Records. The album titled "Song For Anna", was released in 1973 and sold more than 6 million copies internationally. The ukulele became a blended and solo voice with the orchestrations that appealed to the romantic side of music. The album was followed by another titled "Feelings" in 1975. He has recorded numerous albums from traditional Hawaiian to Classical, Pop and other genres.
In 2001, Herb Ohta joined forces with Lyle Ritz and released an album titled Night of Ukulele Jazz Live at McCabe's. The two were considered top performers, but had managed to miss each other for decades, though both were familiar with the other's works. Both played Martin Ukuleles for the recording, Ohta playing a standard size, and Ritz a tenor, which he switched off with a tenor Ko'olau.
Herb's son, Herb Ohta, Jr., carries on the ukulele tradition.
Herb Ota (1934 -) is a world-class ukulele player of Hawaii and Nikkei Nisei Half (a child born between Issei and Nisei).
Her real name is Herbert Ichiro Ohta. Known for the name of OHTA-SAN (Authsan), he has a synonym for "God of Ukulele".
From childhood he was influenced by Eddie · Camie and repeated exercises, establishing his own ukulele playing style called OHTA-SAN STYLE. Pro deba at the age of 15. Not only Hawaiian music but also the style of playing all kinds of music such as jazz, latin, classical, pops, and rock with a single ukulele influences many musicians, greatly increasing the possibility of ukulele as a solo instrument It spread out.
He was proficient in Japanese and was stationed in Korea and Japan for about 11 years as an interpreter with the US Marine Corps commander during the Korean War between 1953 and 1963. From the latter half of the 1980s, I came to Japan like every year and became a fire of the second ukulele boom in Japan.
Their performances will enchant the audiences of the world with unique sounds.
Original Love underwent some dramatic changes along with the transition from an indie label to the major leagues, and one of the most dramatic changes was in the adoption of a completely new sound – one far more in line with the Shibuya-kei movement that was quickly picking up steam than the rock music that Tajima first made his name with.
After making a splash in the late ’80s indie scene, Takao Tajima’s Original Love was quickly picked up by a major label hungry for a piece of the Shibuya-kei pie – but the band that got signed to Toshiba EMI in 1991 was an entirely different beast than the one that recorded the group’s self-titled debut back in 1988. Original members Yukihiro Akiyama and Makoto Ori had since left the group, replaced on drums and bass, respectively, by Shigeo Miyata and studio player Tomio Inoue – the latter of whom played on recordings and toured with the group, but was never an “official” member. Partially due to the lineup change, which also found the group adding keyboard player Ryuutarou Kihara and brass/woodwind specialist Nobuyuki Mori, and partially due to the influence of Pizzicato Five (which Tajima had been a member of until being replaced by vocalist Maki Nomiya in 1990), the Original Love of Kesshou -SOUL LIBERATION-, the group’s first original album for a major label, bore little resemblance to its earlier incarnation, and the music was all the better for it.
Clearly inspired by the popularity of Shibuya-kei contemporaries Flipper’s Guitar, Pizzicato Five and Bridge, Kesshou found Tajima branching out from references to ’60s English psychedelia and finding inspiration in ’70s jazz, funk and soul. While not to the same extent as acts like Rats & Star, the influence of “black” music on Original Love could hardly be understated, and the group’s music palette was all the richer for it. Tajima had already flirted with jazz and world-music sounds with Pizzicato Five, with Kesshou‘s use of tribal percussion a direct continuation of the other group’s “African Queen,” and the album’s vibrant cross-cultural appropriation lent a real gravity to the “soul liberation” in its title.
Although finding the true highest point of Kesshou is incredibly difficult – it’s a fantastic album through and through – “million secrets of jazz” makes the strongest contender for the title. With new players Kihara and Mori taking center stage as the group runs through a dizzying number of jazz standards, the song is one of the most fun things in the band’s discography – and about as far away from the neo-GS style of Original Love as possible. Through its numerous twists and turns, “million secrets” tells you in so many ways why Tajima was so eager to leave rock behind for the greener pastures of Shibuya-kei, and he was as every bit as deft in the new style he adopted as he was in the old one he was leaving behind.
The Manhattan Transfer is a jazz vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a capella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music.
In 1981, the Manhattan Transfer made music history by becoming the first group to win Grammy awards for both popular and jazz categories in the same year. "The Boy from New York City", a cover of the 1965 success by The Ad Libs, reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 and won them the award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and "Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)" earned them a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group.
In September 1983, the group released the album Bodies and Souls, with an urban-contemporary style which resulted in two R&B chart singles. The first was the No. 2 hit "Spice of Life", which was co-written by former Heatwave member Rod Temperton who had penned several hits for Michael Jackson. The single also reached No. 40 on the US pop chart and No. 19 in the UK. The other single, the ballad "Mystery" (#80 R&B, No. 102 Pop), was later covered by Anita Baker on her 1986 album Rapture.
In 1985, the group released two albums; the first was Bop Doo-Wopp, which included both live and studio recordings, and the second was Vocalese, which received twelve Grammy nominations—at the time making it second only to Michael Jackson's Thriller as the most nominated single album ever. The group won in two categories: Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group, and Best Arrangement for Voices. This was followed by a live recording of many of these songs titled Live. This concert, recorded in Japan, was also released on VHS and DVD, later titled Vocalese Live.
For their next album, Brasil (1987), the group headed south to work with Brazilian songwriters and musicians Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, Djavan and Gilberto Gil. Brasil won a Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
The group did not release any studio albums again until 1991, when they signed with the Sony Music label and released The Offbeat of Avenues, featuring original material written or co-written by members of the quartet. Their efforts brought them their 10th Grammy award, for the song "Sassy". This was followed by the release of their first holiday album entitled The Christmas Album in 1992.
Switching back to Atlantic Records as their distributor, they released Tonin' (a collection of R&B and popular successes from the 1960s), The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby the Tuba (a children's album), and their 1997 album Swing which covered 1930s-era swing music. Their final album for Atlantic was The Spirit of St. Louis in 2000, dedicated to the music of Louis Armstrong. The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.
In 2011, while receiving treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, Cheryl Bentyne was replaced on stage for eight months by the soprano Margaret Dorn; Dorn replaced her again December 2013 (followed by Katie Campbell in early 2014) while Bentyne underwent further treatment. Tim Hauser was absent from the stage in 2013 and early 2014 as he recovered from spinal surgery; he was replaced on stage by bass/baritone Trist Curless of the a cappella group m-pact.
In September 2013, one of the original members of the group, Erin Dickins, started a Kickstarter campaign to re-record "Java Jive" with the surviving original members. It featured Tim Hauser's scat musings, as well as a vocal arrangement by Marty Nelson - sung by Dickins, Nelson, Hauser and Gene Pistilli. The project was successfully funded on October 9, 2013 and released on the CD "Java Jive" on Dot Time Records. Original member Pat Rosalia died from cancer in July 2011. Tim Hauser died of cardiac arrest on October 16, 2014.
Following Hauser's death, the group announced Curless would replace him.
The Yoshida Brothers (吉田兄弟 Yoshida Kyōdai) are Japanese musicians who have released several albums on the Domo Records label.
The two brothers are performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 1999 in Japan as a duo playing the shamisen. Their first album sold over 100,000 copies and made them minor celebrities in Japan, a fact that surprised the Yoshida Brothers themselves. They have since attracted an international audience.
Their music has been a fusion of the rapid and percussive Tsugaru-jamisen style along with Western and other regional musical influences. In addition to performing songs that are only on the shamisen, they also use instruments such as drums and synthesizers.
The commercials for Nintendo's Wii video game console that began airing in North America in November 2006 featured the Yoshida Brothers song "Kodo (Inside the Sun Remix)".
Kokufu Hiroko (August 26, 1959 -) is a jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo. Hiroko studied classical piano at Kunitachi Music College and achieved excellence there by playing such classics as Schubert and Ravel. After graduation, she went to New York to study Jazz under the guidance of some great musicians including Mr. Barry Harris.
In 1987, she made her first album “More Than You Know” which was released in Japan by JVC. This album was highly acclaimed in Japan as “a debut album of a great woman pianist & composer who represents the newer.”
Since then, she has had 9 albums released in Japan and 4 in the US, some of which also have been released in other areas of Asia and Europe.They are all-successful because of the warm, beautiful melodies and pop influences of her compositions, which are embodied in her thrilling, hot improvisations.
Hiroko has gained worldwide popularity now, having played at several international events including the Jakarta Jazz Festival (in Indonesia) and the Catalina Island Jazz Festival (in the US).
Les Freres ( Les Freres ) is a Japanese brother piano duo formed on September 3, 2002 by brothers Moriya Saito and Saito Keiji. "Les Freres" means "brothers" in French. Both brothers studied at the Luxembourg National Music School.
On November 8, 2006, they made major debut with the album "Piano Breaker - Piano Breaker -" which is the highest ranking of the pianist debut in the Oricon Weekly Chart, entered the first TOP 20 in history.
On March 8, 2007, the first overseas were performed. On May 5, 2010 - the first European tour to be held (France, Luxembourg, Belgium).
On September of 2017, the duo released her fifth album "Piano Infinity" (Universal Music) and conducted a tour with the album.
Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation.
Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".
Alvvays was formed in Toronto. Molly Rankin, the group's singer-songwriter, is the daughter of John Morris Rankin, a fiddler with the Celtic folk family collective the Rankin Family, who enjoyed international success in the 1990s. Rankin grew up writing music with her neighbour, keyboardist Kerri MacLellan. She later met guitarist and partner Alec O'Hanley at a concert in her teen years. With the help of O'Hanley, Rankin quietly released a solo extended play titled She in 2010. Alvvays was formed the following year, with Rankin assembling MacLellan, O'Hanley, drummer Phil MacIsaac and bassist Brian Murphy to join the group. As the band grew up on neighbouring islands—Rankin and MacLellan on Cape Breton and O'Hanley, MacIsaac, and Murphy hailing from Prince Edward Island—Rankin was led to dub the band "merging of obscure islands in the east coast." She picked the name Alvvays because she liked that it had a "shred of sentiment and nostalgia." The spelling of the band name was due to the fact that there was already a band named Always signed to Sony.
They often made the long drives from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island to Toronto, where they all eventually moved and secured jobs that allowed them to tour occasionally. The group toured extensively as supporting acts for bands such as Peter Bjorn and John and The Decemberists. Their debut album was recorded in Calgary with Chad VanGaalen in March 2013; Graham Walsh helped track the album while John Agnello helped mix it. After the album was complete, the group made cassette copies for festival bookers and fans at concerts to pass around. The group were signed to Polyvinyl Records on the strength of their SXSW performances and online fervor over the demo of their single "Adult Diversion". Alvvays was released by Royal Mountain Records (Canada), Polyvinyl Records (US), and Transgressive Records (Europe) in July 2014. Simon Vozick-Levinson, writing in Rolling Stone, called the eponymous album an "indie-pop wonder". Alvvays went to #1 on US college charts on August 5, 2014. "Archie, Marry Me" became a minor hit. The single for "Archie, Marry Me" featured the b-side "Underneath Us" which was recorded sometime after the eponymous album.
They will collaborate to present Ken Boothe with Cool Wise Man JAPAN Tour.
Shinoda Tomohito (B) Takeuchi Makoto (Dr) Ichimura Tomoyuki (Key) Hiraide Junji (Tsax)
Hamada Koitsu (Tp) Miwa Owada (G) Asami Hiroshi (Tb) Nishiuchi Tooru (Asax)
Cool Wise Man was formed in 1993.
Everyone can not live without moving the body when seeing Cool Wise Man's performances with various roots music backbone, including Jamaican music, and listening to the excitement of "This is music"
They also co-starr with legendary musicians of Jamaican music.
Cool Wise Man is considered to be one of the biggest instruments and ska bands in Japan with numerous appearances in Australia's biggest rock festival "BIG DAY OUT" and other international festivals.
Ken Boothe OD (born 22 March 1948) is a Jamaican vocalist known for his distinctive vibrato and timbre. Boothe achieved an international reputation as one of Jamaica's finest vocalists through a series of crossover hits that appealed to both reggae fans and mainstream audiences.
Boothe's first solo tracks were recorded in 1966 after Clement "Coxsone" Dodd had signed him to his Studio One Label. He also recorded material for Phil Pratt and Sonia Pottinger the same year. The following year, Boothe and Alton Ellis had a successful UK tour with the Studio One session group, the Soul Vendors. Boothe was promoted as "Mr. Rock Steady" by Dodd during this period.
Under a new direction from record producer Lloyd Charmers, Boothe released "Everything I Own" on Trojan Records, which reached Number One in the UK Singles Chart in 1974.
Boothe had one more hit in the UK Singles Chart during the 1970s, "Crying Over You", which made No. 11, with Trojan Records' collapse and a split with Charmers losing much of the momentum built up by his two hits.Boothe recorded a reggae version of the standard "When I Fall In Love" which was released in 1974 on the Studio One label.
In 1978, along with Dillinger, Leroy Smart, and Delroy Wilson, Boothe was referenced by lyricist Joe Strummer in the Clash's song, "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais". Boothe reunited with Charmers in the late 1970s when a revived Trojan Records
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Originally known as the Tempest, the band adopted their current moniker upon their signing to Century Media in 2007. To date, the Agonist has released five studio albums; the latest was released in September 2016. Touring extensively since their first album, they have shared the stage with bands such as Arsonists Get All the Girls, Epica, the Faceless, Chelsea Grin, Kamelot and Visions of Atlantis.
The band released their first album Once Only Imagined on August 14, 2007. Originally intended as a demo, the release prompted the Agonist to add metal drummer Simon McKay to the band. Released August 28, 2007, the video for "Business Suits and Combat Boots" was filmed by acclaimed director David Brodsk (Strapping Young Lad, Gwar, God Forbid).[3] The video was voted the number 6 video of the year 2007 on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball.
After releasing their first album, the Agonist toured with the likes of God Forbid, Arsis, the Faceless, Sonata Arctica, Overkill, Epica, Visions of Atlantis, and Enslaved.One of the band's tours was disrupted when their equipment trailer was damaged in a blizzard in the Rocky Mountains.
The Agonist is a Canadian metalcore band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2004. The current line up consists of guitarists Danny Marino and Pascal (Paco) Jobin, bassist Chris Kells, drummer Simon Mckay, and vocalist Vicky Psarakis, who joined in March 2014 following the departure of vocalist and founding member Alissa White-Gluz. Both Psarakis and White-Gluz use growled and clean vocals. Originally known as the Tempest, the band adopted their current moniker upon their signing to Century Media in 2007. To date, the Agonist has released five studio albums; the latest, Five, was released in September 2016. Touring extensively since their first album, they have shared the stage with bands such as Arsonists Get All the Girls, Epica, the Faceless, Chelsea Grin, Kamelot and Visions of Atlantis.
The band released their first album Once Only Imagined on August 14, 2007. Originally intended as a demo, the release prompted the Agonist to add metal drummer Simon McKay to the band. Released August 28, 2007, the video for "Business Suits and Combat Boots" was filmed by acclaimed director David Brodsky (Strapping Young Lad, Gwar, God Forbid). The video was voted the number 6 video of the year 2007 on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball.
After releasing their first album, the Agonist toured with the likes of God Forbid, Arsis, the Faceless, Sonata Arctica, Overkill, Epica, Visions of Atlantis, and Enslaved. One of the band's tours was disrupted when their equipment trailer was damaged in a blizzard in the Rocky Mountains.
Cellar Darling is a three-piece band from Winterthur and Lucerne, Switzerland founded in 2016. The group was formed by Anna Murphy (vocals, hurdy-gurdy), Merlin Sutter (drums) and Ivo Henzi (guitars and bass). The trio has previously been part of the core of the Swiss metal band Eluveitie. Cellar Darling describe their music as "confidently fusing heavy alternative rock with strong folk influences and poetic lyrical tales, creating what you may very well call a New Wave Of Folk Rock".
On 6 June 2016, former Eluveitie band members Anna Murphy, Ivo Henzi and Merlin Sutter founded the band following their split from their previous band Eluveitie. On 23 September 2016 they launched a single called "Challenge" along with the b-side track "Fire, Wind & Earth". The single was self released and the video was created and directed by the band themselves. Cellar Darling played their first ever shows soon after, in December 2016 supporting Amorphis in Zurich, Switzerland and The Gentle Storm in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In January 2017 the trio announced their signing to a German metal label Nuclear Blast Records, and that their first album would be released through the label in the summer.
On May 4, it was announced that Cellar Darling's first album, entitled This Is the Sound, was to be released on June 30, 2017. They also posted the tracklist of the album.
Cellar Darling released their second single called "Black Moon" on May 19, 2017, along with a music video. This was followed on June 17, 2017 with a third single, "Avalanche". Both videos were shot in Tenerife.
The debut album entitled "This Is The Sound" was released on June 30, 2017 to widespread critical acclaim.
Vulture Industries is a progressive Metal band from Bergen, Norway.
The band rises from the ashes of the Goth band Dead Rose Garden and establishes the definitive line-up that is today’s Vulture Industries. Two critically acclaimed albums are released: «Dystopia Journals» and «The Malefactor’s Bloody Register». Extensive touring follows, all the while improving the band’s stagecraft and forging a reputation as a theatrical and hugely entertaining live act.
The release of «The Tower» in 2013 demonstrated the wide appeal of Vulture Industries, and collaborations with various artists expanded the band’s audience. After much touring, and the garnering of considerable praise from press and fans alike, the long wait for the 4th album was almost over. The Fall of 2017 will see the new album, TBA, hit the streets, backed by a heavy touring schedule.
Perth based Female Fronted Melodic Metal band Icarus Lives have had a stellar 2017, releasing their debut album Vantablack to a rampant home crowd, performing at 3 renowned Australian festivals in Perth, Sydney & Adelaide and are now releasing the albums 2nd single; Never Enough.
Influenced by modern metal superstars such as Evanescence, Lacuna Coil & Bullet For My Valentine, Icarus Lives perfectly combine clean, catchy vocals with crushingly heavy riffs, blistering guitar solos and pounding drums.
The band consists of Sara Murray on vocals, the twin lead guitar attack of Cameron Michael & Taviri Dante Starwood and the thundering rhythm section of bass player Chris Ayling & drummer Naomi Treacy.
Vantablack is available via the bands web store, selected retailers and all good digital outlets. The band aim to push to overseas markets in 2018, including Asia, Europe & the USA whilst continuing to strengthen their Australian following.
Cancer is an Australian band formed in 2016. Their genre is Depressive Black Metal and the current label is Throats Productions. The band consists of Shelby Jansen (Bass), Chris Gebauer (Drums), Thomas Major (Guitars), Dan Jackson (Guitars) and John Pescod (Vocals).
The latest single Into The Heartless Silence has just been released on 28 July 2018.
They produced 1st DEMO (3 songs) in one month and distributed it free at shops and live houses. Gradually gaining attention in Tokyo's underground scene / indie POP scene, they have steadily appeared at various events including "JUKEBOX" and "New Action!" In August 2017, the first nationwide circulation version 1st full album "MAD CITY" was released.
In January and April 2018, the band announced that a new EP would be produced. From now on, they will appear in March 's largest festival in the US "SXSW" and will also perform live abroad.
ShortStraw is an indie rock band from Johannesburg, South Africa. ShortStraw is currently signed to their independently formed publishing label Boosh Records in South Africa, with digital distribution by Sony Music.
The band was formed in 2007 as a two-piece consisting of Oliver Nathan (drums and backing vocals) and Alastair Thomas (lead vocals and guitar). Jason Hartford (guitar and keyboard) joined the band in 2008 and Phil Brierley (bass) later joined the band in 2009.
Shortstraw have earned themselves a place as currently being one of the biggest bands in South Africa, with some of the most loyal fans a band could ask for. After 2014 took the band outside South Africa, Shortstraw continue to bring their uniquely South African “Indie-Bele” sound to the rest of the world.
Shortstraw won BEST INDIE at the 2013 MK Awards for the music video for One Long Day, and at the 2014 MK Awards picked up BEST ALBUM for Good Morning, Sunshine and BEST VIDEO for Waterworks. Shortstraw was nominated for BEST ALTERNATIVE at the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards. In 2015, the band’s latest album Youthless debuted at #1 on the South African iTunes Chart.
Shortstraw has also had the incredible opportunity to have toured with a number of great international bands both in South Africa and abroad, including The Kooks (UK), The Jungle Giants (AUS), Bombay Bicycle Club (UK), Last Dinosaurs (AUS), and the Dune Rats (AUS).
SPARK!!SOUND!!SHOW!! is a pop band from Osaka Prefecture. The nickname is "Suasashi". The members are Tanaka Yuuki (vo, g), Chiyochiyoyama (b, cho), Ichiro (ds, cho), Takuma (syn, g), Tanaka Yuuki. Their style is pop and funky hardcore sound.
They actively participated in festivals and events such as
on June 6, 2018, the first full album "Sparkling Music Entertainment (Hibana Ongaku Cayenne)" was released.
There are 5 members in the band. They are:
Anderson .Paak – lead vocals, drums
Jose Rios – guitar, backing vocals
Ron Tnava Avant – keyboards, backing vocals
Kelsey Gonzalez – bass guitar, backing vocals
Callum Connor – DJ, drums, backing vocals
However, recently the band announced that they recruited Mac Miller, Kali Uchis, and Daniel Caesar for their debut album.
Brandon Paak Anderson (born February 8, 1986), better known by his stage name Anderson Paak (stylized as Anderson .Paak), is an American rapper, songwriter, drummer, singer and record producer from Oxnard, California. He released his debut album, O.B.E. Vol. 1 in 2012, under the pseudonym Breezy Lovejoy. He went on to release Venice in 2014, under his current moniker. Paak followed with Malibu, in 2016, which received a nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the Grammy Awards. Apart from his solo career, Paak is also one-half of NxWorries, alongside record producer Knxwledge. He is accompanied by the band The Free Nationals, who play a variety of instruments such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, and drums, and also serve as backing vocalists.
Paak was born in Oxnard, California in 1986. He is half-African American / Korean. At the age of seven, Paak witnessed his estranged father attack his mother: "My little sister and I went out front, and my pops was on top of my mom. There was blood in the street. He was arrested, and that was the last time I saw him. I think he did 14 years."
Paak began producing music from his bedroom as a teenager, while attending Foothill Technology High School. His first experiences performing were as a drummer at his family's church where he met and married his first wife. After a few years, they divorced, and when Paak was teaching at a music school, he met his second wife, a music student from South Korea. In 2011, prior to being a successful working musician, Paak was working at a marijuana farm in Santa Barbara. He was let go without warning, becoming homeless together with his wife and infant son.
In 2011, Paak had started earning acceptance in the Los Angeles music world as he worked on his debut album. Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra helped Paak recover financially from losing his job in Santa Barbara by employing him as an assistant, videographer, editor, writer and producer. He completed O.B.E. Vol.1 and released the album in mid-2012. He became the drummer for American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart.
On November 27, 2013, Paak produced and recorded Cover Art, an all-covers EP. Paak was inspired by the white artists of the 1950s who achieved commercial success by remaking songs written by black blues and R&B singers, while hardly ever compensating the original artists. Cover Art reversed the process and transformed folk and rock classics from white musicians into a mold of soul, jazz, hip hop, and R&B. The album was released by the independent Hellfyre Club and OBE labels. Paak was the lead producer for Watsky's 2014 album All You Can Do and is featured on three of its tracks.
On October 28, 2014, Paak released Venice, his debut album as Anderson .Paak, on OBE and Steel Wool. Paak performed on six songs on Dr. Dre's 2015 album Compton and two on The Game's The Documentary 2. In October 2015, he announced that he had recorded material with ScHoolboy Q and 9th Wonder. Paak released his second album, Malibu, on January 15, 2016, to critical acclaim.
In January 2016, he indicated that he had been recording with Flying Lotus. On January 30, 2016, Paak spoke with Scott Simon of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday in an interview entitled: "Anderson .Paak: 'The Dot Stands For Detail' " about his tumultuous background as a child of mixed-race parents, the significance of "." (dot) Paak, his apprenticeship with Dr. Dre and how all of these influences shaped his music. On January 30, Paak announced via Twitter he has signed to Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment.
In 2016, Paak was named one of the XXL Freshman, along with Lil Dicky, Desiigner, Dave East, Denzel Curry, Lil Yachty, G Herbo, Lil Uzi Vert, 21 Savage, & Kodak Black. He said he always sends his ideas to Dr. Dre and the two work very fast.
In 2018, Paak's new single 'Til It's Over featured in a new TV commercial released by Apple Inc. The advertisement was directed by Spike Jonze, featuring FKA Twigs in the video, promoting the Apple HomePod smart speaker.
Even though the raw and raunchy earlier material released shortly after their formation 22 years ago sounds worlds away from the more recent work, since early on Kobe, Japan’s SWARRRM has never been afraid to drag Grindcore through all sorts of weird and wonderful terrain.
But unlike other wildly eclectic bands like Tokyo’s Paintbox who make use of arrangements and instrumentation (in Paintbox’s case, Van Halen solos and mariachi horns on 2009’s ‘Trip, Trance & Travelling’), SWARRRM has evolved their genre with boundless imagination and simply having the chops to pull off all sorts of fantastical ideas.
OVUM are a four-piece instrumental rock band originating from Tokyo, Japan. Since forming in 2006, they have performed over 200 gigs, both nationally and internationally. It includes Norikazu Chiba - Guitar , Yu Tokuda - Drums , Yosuke Jinnouchi - Guitar , Shin-ichi Tahara - Bass.
New inspiration gained during their 2014 European tour spurred OVUM to radically change their musical direction. This development saw the band take on a more expressive style of playing defined by the members as "metal-oriented instrumental rock," with a heavier and more aggressive approach built onto their core sound.
In December 2016, Rosetta JAPAN TOUR 2016 with OVUM was held.
In April 2017, they released Split.
In August 2017, they held the Europe Tour (Munich, Zurich, Dijon, Karlsruhe, Prague).
In December 2017, 3rd album "In My Sanctuary" was released from Penguinmarket Records, Pest Productions.
GUEVNNA is a Sludge / Doom Rock band from Tokyo, Japan formed in 2011 including Go Shimada, Komi, Raizou, Ryo Yamada, Temi.
They belongs to W.I.F.A.G.E.N.A. records and Long Legs Long Arms records. After releasing a split with Aguirre in France and Black Temple Below in Italy, GO (Gt), Temi (Dr) joined after membership change and announced "Conspiracies" (EP) in 2015. Up to now, their sounds have been making a big change. While leaving a sludge / dome-like element so far, they gave a reverberation by presenting a sound that is upper, danceable and heavy.
Their musical influence has gradually started spreading not only to domestic but also active tours to overseas, events and flyer creation, which are not caught by existing customs, and based on its alternative spirit. There is a part of their characteristic with the spirituality of the band "Let's pioneer new areas", and that time they partnered as a label to advance to new level.
Their sound, which is also called "Urban Stoner" in part, may certainly be the form of a new Stoner Rock which has undergone refined urban elegance.
Since its inception in 2003, Black Ganion, the ‘super metamorphosis grinder’, has turned the voice of the voiceless into ear-shattering noise and screams, hurling them to the world. The knee-deep sludge rends itself into furious grindcore, and the chilly dub cuttings morph into doom riffs and chaotic murkiness. Their collaboration with GOTH-TRAD on Method is regarded as one of the first ever successful chimaera of extreme music and dubstep.
Still, their music is not just a showcase of musical genres. Their inconsistency in musical styles shows the true musical identity of the band. The same can be said for the listeners – they must abandon the stylized routine moshings, and free their instincts. Black Ganion on stage is an epitome of modern society, the feast of freedom and aggression.
Power Trip is an American thrash metal band formed in Dallas, Texas in 2008. Their sound has been described by critics as a cross between thrash metal and hardcore punk, as well as simply crossover thrash. Power Trip's current lineup consists of Riley Gale (vocals), Chris Ulsh (drums), Chris Whetzel (bass), Blake “Rossover” Ibanez (guitar), and Nick Stewart (guitar).
In 2013, the band signed with the Southern Lord Records label and released their first studio album, Manifest Decimation. Their second album, Nightmare Logic, was released in 2017 to critical acclaim. In 2018, the album Opening Fire: 2008-2014 was released as a way to compile their extra tracks.
Clown is a Japanese four-member hardcore punk rock band. Since its inception, they has released many songs and album such as: livestock world (2007), Human in confusion (2013), Unfair equality (2013), etc,.
Since its inception in 2003, Black Ganion, the ‘super metamorphosis grinder’, has turned the voice of the voiceless into ear-shattering noise and screams, hurling them to the world. The knee-deep sludge rends itself into furious grindcore, and the chilly dub cuttings morph into doom riffs and chaotic murkiness. Their collaboration with GOTH-TRAD on Method is regarded as one of the first ever successful chimaera of extreme music and dubstep.
Still, their music is not just a showcase of musical genres. Their inconsistency in musical styles shows the true musical identity of the band. The same can be said for the listeners – they must abandon the stylized routine moshings, and free their instincts. Black Ganion on stage is an epitome of modern society, the feast of freedom and aggression.
The conception of Sinsaenum can be traced as far back as 1998, when French guitarist Frédéric Leclercq (best known as the bassist of English power metal band DragonForce) began writing a number of death metal songs. Jordison proposed the band name Sinsaenum, which is a modified portmanteau of the words "sin" and "insane". The trio later added Attila Csihar of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and Sean Zatorsky of American death metal group Dååth as dual lead vocalists, in addition to Seth guitarist Heimoth on the bass to complete the lineup. The formation of the band was officially announced on May 20, 2016.
In early 2017 the band entered the studio again to begin the process of writing and recording what they dubbed as "Sinsaenum II". It was later announced in summer that year that the band would release a new EP. The EP, entitled Ashes, was scheduled for release on November 10, featuring new music, previously Japan exclusive bonus tracks, and an alternate mix of the track "Dead Souls" from Echoes of the Tortured, remixed by Frédéric Duquesne of French industrial metal group Mass Hysteria. The title track was released with a music video on 29 September 2017. On October 27, they released the Duquesne mix of "Dead Souls" with a lyric video.
SIGH is a Japanese extreme metal band from Tokyo, formed in 1989. They are credited as being one of the first Japanese black metal bands, producing music in the early 1990s when the majority of black metal came from Scandinavia. They gradually shifted from a traditional extreme metal sound to a more experimental, avant-garde style employing symphonic elements.
Sigh was founded in 1989 in Tokyo, Japan. The band was signed by Euronymous' (of Mayhem fame) label Deathlike Silence Records and released their first full-length album Scorn Defeat on DSP in 1993, shortly after Euronymous' death. The label ceased to exist shortly after his death and Sigh changed to Cacophonous Records.
The band is featured in the 2008 documentary Global Metal. Their song "Inked in Blood" from Hangman's Hymn was named number 31 on Loudwire's list of the Top 21st Century Metal Songs
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The Goblin 's first Osaka performance is the world' s most successful Italian rock guru and takes the honor of movie rewards band !
Perry took up the guitar at the age of 10, and even though he is left-handed learned to play with his right.[6] He said in 2014 that a substantial early influence on his music was The Beatles: "The night The Beatles first played The Ed Sullivan Show, boy, that was something. Seeing them on TV was akin to a national holiday. Talk about an event. I never saw guys looking so cool. I had already heard some of their songs on the radio, but I wasn't prepared by how powerful and totally mesmerizing they were to watch. It changed me completely. I knew something was different in the world that night."
He was ranked 84th in Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Aerosmith, and in 2013, Perry and his songwriting partner Steven Tyler were recipients of the ASCAP Founders Award and were also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In October 2014, Simon & Schuster released Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith, written by Perry with David Ritz.
The self-dubbed "fabric four" primarily recorded in a film soundtrack style, and many of their tracks were instrumentals. On the release of their first album Dad Man Cat, Paul Moody wrote in the New Musical Express: "Whereas the rest of the Acid Jazz roster fidget around in a world of skinny ribbed roll-necks comparing sideburn growth, Corduroy manage to swagger through the same po-faced domain with a couldn't-care-less braggadocio... Corduroy have got their collective tongue stuck firmly in someone else's cheek here and it feels staggeringly good."