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The Condition of Samuel began for Samuel Petersson to vent his frustrations about the music scene in his hometown of Varberg, Sweden. In 1996, he started writing and documenting songs on the four-track machine and immediately after developed his stage name. A few of these recordings would afterwards arrive on …

It’s hardly controversial to declare that Serena Maneesh will be the brainchild from the musically über-potent Emil Nikolaisen. Maybe initially most widely known as the drummer/primary ideologue of celebrated glam-punk clothing Silver, Nikolaisen offers most certainly been with us the block. He’s a guy of extremes; despite his fairly early …

JAPAN girl rock-band Chatmonchy (its name is gibberish) began scoring around the nationwide charts in 2005, their success credited, to a big part, towards the songs they wrote for anime series, like the popular teen favorite Bleach. The group officially goes back to 2000, when it included the guitarist/vocalist Eriko …

Shaped in Japan’s northernmost province of Hokkaido at the same time when the majority of their Tokyo contemporaries had been in thrall towards the sounds of Seattle, Japanese three-piece the Cushions sidestepped the loud-soft dynamic to supply a far more wholesome undertake the alternative rock and roll scene, inspired with …

Shaped in 1989 by Oyamada Keigo and Ozawa Kenji from the continues to be of their previous group Lollypop Sonic, Tokyo indie pop duo Flipper’s Guitar had been largely in charge of instigating the magpie-like style of influence-hunting that found characterize a lot Japanese indie music from the ’90s. Putting …

Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re, frequently styled TsuShiMaMiRe, is a punk-inspired indie rock-band from Chiba, Japan. A play on the term “mamire” (around, “smeared”), the name mixed parts of the initial members’ brands: Yayoi Tsushima (bass), Mari Kono (vocals/electric guitar), and Mizue Masuda (drums). The ladies began playing jointly in …