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	TMT - When Image Is Everything
		In these bands, the visual image projected by the their clothes style and makeup is as important as the music they produce.
		In South East Asia, the visual rock band style is seen as an example of Japanese "weirdness." However, it is definitely not exclusively Japanese for artists to dress for shock value and project fantastic visual images as important as their music.
		In the case of the visual bands, the gothic, surreal style of dress is now associated with a certain genre of music.
	www.geocities.com /tmtestosterone/visualrock.html (1268 words)

	J-ROCK - JAPANESE ROCK MUSIC
		Japanese rock is a form of popular music, often abbreviated to "J-Rock" in much the same way that "J-Pop" is used as an abbreviation of Japanese Pop.
		Psychedelic rock was invented in the 1960s by American and British counterculture figures.
		Strictly speaking, however, "Visual kei" is not defined by its sound (which may or may not be "rock" music) but by the appearance of the bands.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /culture/j_rock.html (379 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Mono
		Japanese ambient droners headline after IQU brings the beats.
		This is the band’s second Austin visit since their SXSW 02 debut, and indications are they’re about to erupt like the critical mass of their trance-rock epics.
		The Arena Rock Recording Company is the lucky winner of the "Japanese Mogwai" sweepstakes, Mono’s gripping new One Step More and You Die nestling up alongside Austin labelmates the Gloria Record, whose sonorous mood rock fits into the middle slot.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Guides/Bands?oid=108188 (322 words)

	Japanese Progressive Rock CDs
		Asturias is a band from the first generation of the Japanese progressive rock scene, and their two late-1980’s studio albums are superb, in a style close to Mike Oldfield and Camel, with beautiful melodies and atmospheres.
		Whereas Kenso has been more of a fusion band from their third album on, Flat122 is more of a progressive rock band, but one that includes a hefty dose of the slightly-dissonant avant-prog style of bands such as Cartoon, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, or Miriodor.
		Interface is a Japanese band heavily influenced by King Crimson, but they cover nearly the entire range of King Crimson styles from 1969 to 2000 (the album was recorded between 1996-2000) and still manage to add some of their own elements.
	www.kinesiscd.com /japanese.htm (4354 words)

	J-POP
		The basics of J-pop are made up from Japanese traditional music and folk music.
		Japanese music scene has been developed by Japanese artists and influences from overseas artists, mainly from U.S. and U.K. It is interesting that we can find every genre of music we can think of, in the Japanese music scene if we look at the weekly music charts like Orikon.*
		Even now, Japanese people are doing the same things as before, importing new music from overseas and changing them into a part of J-pop.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /culture/j-pop.html (444 words)

	Obscure Sound - Indie Music Blog » FEATURE: JAPANESE MUSIC - TOP TEN
		Modern Japanese indie, pop, and rock artists are extremely fond of music outside of their country, while still showing a respectability and admiration for their own personal roots.
		Pizzicato Five is one of the most famous Japanese bands to Westerners because of their very nice flow and accessible jazzy sound.
		They have been a band known to embrace English roots, as each of their albums is often seen going in a different music direction, sometimes approaching full English.
	obscuresound.com /?p=31 (1591 words)

	East Coast JRock Convention Petition
		With the start of a Japanese rock convention in California, the ECJC staff have become determined to provide the East Coast with its own Japanese rock convention.
		We aspire to give existing Japanese rock fans the opportunity to see some of their favourite bands live, as well as reach a new, potential group of fans while providing everyone with a weekend of entertainment.
		Despite this, they are always seen as a “bonus.“ Many Japanese rock fans attend these anime conventions to see those bands; they spend their hard-earned money attending a convention they may not attend had a specific band not been snagged as a guest.
	www.petitiononline.com /ECJC/petition.html (280 words)

	A History of Japanese Rock Music
		Japanese space-rock was born with Hadaka no Rallizes (also known as Les Rallizes Denudes), who drew inspiration from the Velvet Underground's Exploding Plastic Inevitable light and sound shows and from Blue Cheer's heavily amplified sound.
		Japanese bands excelled at this parodistic and futuristic approach to kitsch and muzak.
		A few bands specialized in fast-paced noise-core that mixed the speed of hardcore and the cacophony of industrial music.
	www.scaruffi.com /history/japanese.html (1563 words)

	Midnight Eye interview: Tomorowo Taguchi
		Iden and Tity is set during the years of the 'Band Boom', the sudden rise in popularity of Japanese rock bands in the mid 80s.
		But you and your band were never part of the boom itself [which was the result of a popular 'battle of the bands' type TV show called Ikaten - TM and KS].
		In that scene you mentioned before, I shot the moment the band take the stage in slow motion, and that was inspired by Sam Peckinpah.
	www.midnighteye.com /interviews/tomorowo_taguchi.shtml (1176 words)

	Japanese Rock Band Invades Baltimore
		Otakon, the largest Japanese animation and culture convention in North America, will feature the highly acclaimed band L'Arc~en~Ciel as the musical centerpiece of its annual event.
		L'Arc~en~Ciel is one of the most popular rock bands in Japan's history, and the group's US debut performance should light a similar furor among Japanese music fans in North America.
		After millions of record sales and over a decade at the top of the Japanese pop charts, the band now faces their greatest challenge yet.
	www.otakon.com /news_article.asp?id=40 (339 words)

	Rock of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I don’t mean to imply that the only good rock music is coming out of Japan, but lately, western music seems to get separated into genres, and each genre is a box.
		In the best Japanese rock music, they see all our separate boxes as one big stew, and by mixing and matching what they like, they’ve been able to create some very tasty flavors.
		In Japanese rock music, I also hear a belief in the power of rock music, and that belief, long gone over here, gives it power.
	www.rockofjapan.com (1205 words)

	CollegeJournal \| News & Trends
		In the fall of 2002, the number of students studying Japanese in U.S. institutions of higher education rose to 52,238, a jump of 21% over 1998, when the previous survey was conducted.
		"Japanese was the hot language to take if you wanted to do something with your life," says Trip Bakun, 32, who studied Japanese for five years starting in 1990 when he was majoring in international business at UGA.
		Sasaki, one of the UGA Japanese teachers, works hard to adapt to the changing interests of her students.
	www.collegejournal.com /globalcareers/newstrends/20040811-parker.html (1115 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Spotlights: Acid Mothers Temple/Mono: Elysium, 1am/The Drink on 6th, 11pm
		Maybe it's because we unfortunately fixate on differences, but nearly all the Japanese music that gets attention in the U.S. is the most extreme, challenging kind.
		This year, SXSW brings two similarly challenging Japanese acts: Acid Mothers Temple, who've garnered a reputation for their unpredictable bouillabaisse of musique concrete and Krautrock, and the little-known Mono, whose impressive debut Under the Pipal Tree is on John Zorn's Tzadik label and utilizes extreme volume to induce extreme hypnosis.
		Rock was born in America and brought up in England, but now it doesn't belong to any one country."
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:85047 (395 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: R: Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Rock Archives - Offers access to resources regarding the social, cultural, and artistic aspects of rock music, including a sub-site linking to more than 350 singer-songwriters and bands.
		Rock Bands - The origins and stories behind some often unusual band names.
		Rubin's Rock N Roll Reference Discography - A complete list of rock artists and their songs, albums, years of release, lead singers, and other helpful information to help track down music one is looking for.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Styles/R/Rock (460 words)

	North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
		After band members graduate from Ramapo in the spring, they plan to expand their reper-toire, build on the local fan base and play nationally -- or even, if they reach Hsu's native Taiwan, internationally.
		In college, Hsu combined the new rock ideas with his traditional training on the erhu, forming an erhu and guitar duo, Genso Fantasia -- a perfect laboratory to experiment with these new ideas -- but the overall effect was a quiet, cafe sound.
		The result, over the course of the past year, was Hsu-nami, a group that not only blends rock with the erhu sound but also mixes in the band members' backgrounds in progressive rock, metal, punk, ska, funk and jazz.
	www.northjersey.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNzEmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwMjUxNTQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3 (690 words)

	StonerRock.com - Interviews
		We were into modern jazz, pop, rockabilly and then came the British invasion (especially the Stones and The Animals), so in the ‘60’s, none of the Japanese rock bands were singing in Japanese with the exception of the pop scene.
		That was until some rock band started to write and sing in Japanese in a very new way, which was weird for us in the beginning and took some time for my ears to get used to.
		In those days, rock music was still considered underground and the mainstream Japanese pop market was always strong, but we were proud to be one of the leaders to do something new for the young generation of Japanese music fans.
	www.stonerrock.com /interviews/index.asp?InterviewID=197 (1532 words)

	The Official PUSA Music Site - Bands We Like
		I Should Coco, their first record, is my favorite rock and roll record of the last 15 years.
		But they're the only current band in rock and roll that I can not only stand but actually think are amazing.
		The Stones tried to get him to join their band but he was too high on 'ludes to know he was even being asked.
	www.presidentsrock.com /links/bandswelike (1124 words)

	Group Sounds GS 1960s Japanese Beat Groups Garage Bands Movies Films DVD & VHS - The VIDEO BEAT!
		Their visit created such national excitement among teenagers that almost overnight there was a dramatic shift in the way young musicians formed groups, played their instruments and thought about fashion and style.
		This new wave of 1960s Japanese rock groups was called Group Sounds—or GS for short.
		By 1967, nearly 30 new bands with mod names like the Spiders, the Tempters, the Carnabeats, the Jaguars, and the Tigers made their record debuts.
	www.thevideobeat.com /group-sounds-gs-60s-japanese-garage-rock.htm (572 words)

	Electric sake acid test - Minnesota Daily
		The music is obviously derived from U.S. styles, yet it sounds distinctly Japanese; not because the songs are in a different language or in broken English, but because of an added quality that sweetens up the music.
		How exactly Japanese music differs is hard to explain and understand, except that it is a kind of ultra pop.
		Unlike some other Japanese bands, Ghost uses exotic elements in their music which make it clear they are not a U.S band.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2004/09/23/61333 (362 words)

	Japanese rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese rock (sometimes abbreviated J-Rock) is the Japanese form of rock music.
		Since the actual musical style can differ greatly from one work to another, Japanese rock only qualifies as a music genre insofar as that it describes where given artist or band originates from and in which language titles and lyrics probably are.
		This page was last modified 00:50, 2 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_rock (86 words)

	Rock Bands........ - Page 6 - AnimeBB.ORG \| Forums
		Rock hard band with the members of the band......
		If you have not heard of them you should check them out they are the coolest band that hit me. I could even say theyre better than soad.
		Ill try to get some new videos from bands such as UVERworld, maybe system of a down, High and mighty color, and basiclly all the bands Ive given yall on this thread.
	forumcenter.animebb.org /showthread.php?p=38593 (440 words)

	Joel's Favorite Japanese Bands
		The two great bands of the eighties were Shonen Knife and the Boredoms.
		All three bands are still going strong, making wonderful sounds on CD and in concert.
		No band from any other country even comes close in greatness or originality.
	home.earthlink.net /~banananohana/japbands.html (365 words)

	Next wave: Japanese rock, pop
		Visual kei: The phrase means “visual style” and for bands such as Psycho le Cemu or Malice Mizer, it refers to a subgenre of J-rock in which elaborate costumes, hair and makeup are as important to many fans as is the music.
		Listen and you’ll hear heavy-metal bands, glam-meets-kabuki bands, bubblegum pop queens and leather-clad garage punks — all of them absorbing Western influences, throwing it in the mixer with their Japanese style and sending it echoing back across the ocean like a gigantic power chord from the East.
		One of the first Japanese bands to cross over to hip music fans here was Shonen Knife, three young women whose infectious poppy punk delighted American alt-rock stars such as Kurt Cobain, who invited them to open shows for Nirvana.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/html/2005/03/11/94323.php (1162 words)

	Japunks Jamboree 6
		It features the very best Japanese rock bands in the city, as well as special guest bands from Tokyo, Japan.
		This year we are inviting the charismatic major label band "Goggle-A" along with 3 famous indie bands from Japan.
		Hard to be categorized but having a real solid groove, this crazy band from Japan was formed back in `97 by Sue (G /Vo) and Binta (B), later on a wild female guitarist Shinko and Mitti, the ex-drummer of HOE INU joined the band in `01.
	www.japunks.com /japunks6 (956 words)

	recipe-directory.net » Blog Archive » Book provides guide to Japanese rock bands (Tacoma News Tribune)
		NEW YORK - "Japanese rock" might conjure images of Zen gardens, with bonsai trees and quiet streams.
		But the elaborate mini-encyclopedia of Japanese music called "jrock, ink." is anything but still.
		Reading from right to left, like a Japanese graphic novel, "jrock, ink." is a spunky, fast-paced rundown of 40 of the hottest rock-music acts in Japan.
	recipe-directory.net /recipeblog/?p=364 (200 words)

	Tatsuya Yoshida
		Surely one of the fastest and most powerful drummers in avant rock wouldn’t long be happy in the nuanced and subtle world of jazz.
		Yoshida is the founder and drummer of the seminal duo The Ruins, who since their first record in 1986—a self-titled 7” EP released by Trans Records—have been a focal point for new rock in Japan.
		The band grew in popularity and got to be known in America with the Shimmy Disc reissues of their first two albums, 1990’s Stonehenge and 1992’s Burning Stone.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=19949 (898 words)

	BI KYO RAN discography, MP3 and reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		BI KYO RAN is one of the most important Japanese Progressive Rock bands.
		Forming in the '70s, the legendary BI KYO RAN played with the bristling energy, intensity and aggression of KING CRIMSON mainly on the "Red" era, then alternately delicate and pastoral, with ample use of mellotron.
		Despite the obvious cloning, the music is very well executed, and to complete the picture, a violinist is also featured.
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=41 (207 words)

	Japanese rock anyone? - Music Forum
		If you choose to participate, new forums and features will open up to you; including an option of having 3 songs uploaded and shown in your posts for free, community section with general chat and more.
		So, Im going to Japan this sumer and i thought it might be fun to make a cool mix with some japanese bands on it, I've heard of the pillow's but thats pretty much it.
		Have you ever tried Do As Infinity, they are a really good band.
	www.radiomute.com /18878-japanese-rock-anyone.html (482 words)

	SoundClick artist: Ostroski - Instrumental guitarist/keyboardist with classical and progressive rock influences.
		Ostroski is the old fashioned garage band instrumental artist who does all his recording on his computer.
		I talked to him about a band, so we got three more members; Michael Pennington on Vocals, Cody Berg on drums, and Amber Hamilton on keyboards.
		We were good players, but Andy turned us all against Bryan and doomed the band, so I got fed up with him, quit the band, and went solo.
	www.soundclick.com /bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=155197 (376 words)

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