Tag Archives: 2007 in Tokyo

Their name pretty much says everything. Similar to rings like Lullatone, the Marshmallow Kisses, and Tenniscoats, the Tokyo-based outift CUSTOMIZED for a little Room make the type of spun sugar-sweet, winsome, “toytronica” (their term) music that appear to be they were designed to easily fit into a dollhouse. 4 Bonjour’s …

The Tokyo oshare-kei band The Kiddie had an instantaneous effect on the scene upon their formation in 2007, rising quickly from relative obscurity to sign a major-label offer even before releasing their first album. Their shiny, colorful, yet fairly casual appears and cheerful, positive pop/rock and roll sound received them …

A Japanese music group whose music is a fusion of vintage power pop, ’80s brand-new influx, ’90s indie rock and roll, and a dash of punky attitude, MOLICE certainly are a truly individual, self-motivated music group in a picture where many groupings are orchestrated by managers or record brands. MOLICE’s …

Launching their job using a bang using their 2007 debut display at among Tokyo’s hippest & most popular venues, this visual kei quintet continued to become perhaps one of the most prolific rings in the scene, launching an astounding five full-length albums within a year-and-a-half without the noticeable deterioration in …

When visual kei heroes Pierrot split in 2006 on the elevation of their popularity, vocalist Kirito, bassist Kohta, and drummer Takeo — disappointed with just how things had opted — made a decision to re-form simply because a fresh band using the same aesthetic and musical design. Kirito once more …

In the later 2000s, a fresh variety of visual kei bands surfaced who took the fashionable looks from the oshare arranged but shied from the garish colors, relentlessly positive outlook, and summery pop-punk sound, opting instead to include harder metallic elements and even more melancholy lyrical themes. In the indie …