Tag Archives: 2010 in Tokyo

Nujabes had a significant effect on the hip-hop community in his local Tokyo. An archive shop owner, label creator, DJ, and maker, Nujabes — given birth to Seba Jun, or “Nujabes” backward — released almost two dozen singles and a small number of albums that shown his knack for nuanced, …

An unlikely but amazing collision of kawaii J-pop and rock, Tokyo’s BABYMETAL features SU-METAL (Suzuka Nakamoto), MOAMETAL (Moa Kikuchi), and YUIMETAL (Yui Mizuno). The trio started like a subgroup of Sakura Gakuin, a far more traditional-sounding J-pop work whose members keep the group after they graduate from junior senior high …

Visible kei quartet Diaura increased swiftly through the ashes of fan preferred Valluna to build up a rabid cult subsequent in Japan as well as the Western. Their luxurious kote-kei (“old-school”) appears and natural, metallic, yet available sound produced them probably one of the most fascinating indies rings to elegance …

LC5 was a side project of Miku, vocalist from the hugely popular oshare-kei music group An Cafe, who signed to Sony Music this year 2010, but promptly continued indefinite hiatus before saving a note because of their new paymasters. The label still wished new music, therefore Miku promptly come up …

Growing from melted snow this year 2010, the quintet of wolfmen referred to as Man having a Mission produced their way to Tokyo’s Shibuya district to courtroom fans having a blend of rock and roll, nu metallic, pop-punk, and melodic pop like early-era Linkin Park colliding with Zebrahead and Billy …

Jesse Ruins’ sweeping soundscapes conjure the haze of shoegaze using the sparkle of ambient electronic devices. The group started in Tokyo this year 2010 like a single task for enigmatic musician Nobuyuki Sakuma, who debuted the task later that 12 months having a cassette for the label Cuz Me Discomfort. …