PSYENCE: hide refused to choose a genre
Released on September 2, 1996, PSYENCE moved from big-band brass to industrial rock, garage punk and pop without allowing any genre to define hide.
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Maki Ohguro reunites 55 BLACK and 55 RED
55 RED arrives today with 55 BLACK RETURNS. Maki Ohguro completes a two-album project conceived at 55 as her 35th-anniversary campaign begins.
What Is J-POP? Why It Means More Than Japanese Pop
Rock, hip-hop, metal, idols or enka: why are so many different kinds of music gathered under J-POP — and why did J-POP streaming choose it over J-music?"
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SCANDAL Will End Its Activities in 2027
SCANDAL will end its activities on August 21, 2027, after one final tour of Japan. The band has announced neither a breakup nor a hiatus. We look back at twenty years together.
J-POP streaming is back. It never really left.
The website disappeared and the playlists stopped moving. The desire behind J-POP streaming did not. Here is why it went away, what changed and why it can now return.
Night Hawks Interview: Burnout, Freedom and Rock
Shuichi Aoki and Chie Iwashita revisit Night Hawks’ difficult history, their unexpected return, the meaning of rock and the forty-year journey behind “Anmoku no Hibi.”
Re:O: “We Make Music That Sounds Better Louder”
With “Ronin,” Re:O became a four-piece built on incompatible influences, impossible drum parts and a shared desire to push Rio Suyama’s songs somewhere heavier.
Flehmann: Every Song Begins with a Sound
From a used synthesizer to “Save my love,” Flehmann explains how he returned to music, builds from sound and learned to write for voices.
OTO MAYUMI: Japanese rock from Rome
In early 2024, OTO MAYUMI spoke to J-POP streaming about Good and Bad Shades, her love of 1990s J-rock and the producer who helped her find the right sound.