Base Ball Bear are probably my favorite discovery of the year, their 2015 album is the most fun listen ever. sucks that i can't find translated lyrics anywhere
I'm trying to listen to this band called Nano.RIPE or something but this sturf is not on Spotify and iTunes and YouTube is too inconvenient. Where can you easily stream or buy Japanese music that isn't available via convential channels here? This is the band:
01. daoko - thank you blue 02. Izumi Makura - Yuki To Suna 03. Especia - Wizard 04. Polkadot Stingray - Zenchi Zenno 05. BAND-MAID - just bring it 06. Akai Ko-en - Nessho Summer 07. Negoto - ETERNALBEAT 08. Seiko Omori - kitixxxgaia 09. BiSH - the guerrilla bish 10. WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - SUPERMAN 11. Sayuri - mikazuki no kokai 12. Seiko Omori - MUTEKI 13. Wagakki Band - shikisai 14. The Oral Cigarettes - UNOFFICIAL 15. DYGL - say goodbye to memory den 16. tricot - 3 17. Izumi Makura - Tokyo Girls Life 18. BiSH - GiANT KiLLERS 19. Indigo la End - crying end roll 20. Kenshi Yonezu - bootleg 21. Charisma.com - not not me 22. Suchmos - The Kids 23. PASSEPIED - & DNA 24. Gesu no Kiwami Otome. - Daruma Ringo 25. E-girls - E.G. Crazy others: Aimyon - Seishun no Excitement BRADIO - Freedom AAA - way of glory Hitomi Kaji - Naked LOVE PSYCHEDELICO - Love your love LiSA - little devil parade ONE OK ROCK - Ambitions KiWi - March fox capture plan - fragile SHISHAMO - SHISHAMO 4 EP/mini album: JYOCHO - Aoi Ie de Bokura Kurasu majiko - Cloud 7 Walkure - Walkure ga Tomoranai Hello Sleepwalkers - Shin Sekai The Wisely Brothers - Hemming EP Kari Band - Kari Ongen - Demo POLKADOT STINGRAY - dai seigi mouse on the keys - out of body Soko Ni Naru - Metalin Yunomi - Oedo Controller Maaya Uchida - Drive-in Theater
(2017) I Saw You Yesterday - DOVE Satomimagae - Kemri Kento Tani - 9 to the morning Okada Takuro - Nostalgia Post Modern Team - COME ON OVER NOW Toshiaki Yamada - DOCUMENT yoru no yume - atarashii yoru no yume my letter - My Music Machine
beeen listening to ton of uchi conbini and jyocho recently. loving all their stuff. also the new hump back mini album is prettty incredible
Wish I had seen this thread before going to Japan last month haha. I really wanted to try to go to a live show but didn’t really know enough to find anything (also didn’t really end up having time). Did see some cool street musicians though.
January releases I'm looking forward to: mol-74 - (Saisei) Nagi Yanagi - Natte Yuka Ueno - U tu You ChouCho - color of time anemone AL - now playing Humbreaders - Jyun Isei Koyu Q'ulle - connect light Minako Kotobuki - emotion little glee monster - juice Uchudan - sorenari no tsuyogari WANIMA - everybody!! Goodbye holiday - Doppelganger Dizzy Sunfist - dreams never end Yumika Kondo - piece Luby Sparks the peggies - super boy! super girl!! Chemical Volume - colors AKB48 - bokutachi wa, anohi no yoake wo shitteiru Mai Fuchigami - fly high my way rem time rem time - episode Kaori Kishitani - unlock the girls DAZBEE - sincere Kiroro - Aihaberu toe - that's another story Chihei Hatakeyama - far from the atmosphere CY8ER - hello new generation STU48 - Kurayami Yuka Aisaka KAKASHI - one by one Brian the Sun - the sun good on the reel - hikari ni mamirete Niji no Conquistador - rainbow phenomenon LUCCI - turquoise blue Nogizaka46 - boku dake no kimi Yabai T Shirts Yasan - galaxy of the tank-top penguin research Maiko Fujita - omoi tsuzukereba
@Chocobo im trying to find digital copies of Hump Backs albums, any tips? Cant find it anywhere on itunes, and amazon.jp only has physical copies.
no tips sadly, they really don't seem to have any of their releases on any digital platform, not even LINE music (popular in Japan).
Been going through @Chocobo ’s EOTY list and so far am in love with Daoko, Polkadot Stingray, Band-Maid, and Tricot. Tricot I actually already knew about because I got the chance to see them a couple years ago live. They were fantastic and so fun
unbelievably sad news about Mikio Fujioka this morning. don't post on here often but wanted to share this. BABYMETAL guitarist Mikio Fujioka has died at 36 - News - Alternative Press
February releases I'm looking forward to: Split end - Lost Sea & Yoru Lucie, too - Lucky Yasutaka Nakata - digital native Ling tosite sigure - #5 BAND-MAID - world domination SCANDAL - Honey Sayonara Ponytail - you are my universe GIRLFRIEND - chocolate The Wisely Brothers - YAK kiichibeer & the holy t!ts - transceiver date MINT mate box - beside MINT mate box「メイクキュート」 Tacoyaki Rainbow - double rainbow PassCode - Locus Do As Infinity - alive Leo Ieiri - time Tsuzuri Zukuri - niji mikazuki Aimer - Ref:rain / Mabayui Bakari kankaku piero - Iroiro Toiro burnout syndromes - kujaku Rei - Fly Megumi Nakajima - curiosity HAG - Ao Iro Film nothing's carved in stone - mirror ocean new single from Kana Hanazawa
I looked around, and it seems your only chance outside of Japan is to order physical copies from sites like cdjapan. for this band, and many others, sadly there is no easy way. (ototoy.jp is a site where you can buy digital music from Japan, but their music isn't there.)
Chocobo, have you listened to Dreamcatcher? They're a Korean group, but they definitely have a more Japanese style to them. I think they're pretty fun anyway. Worth a listen