In June, miyavi embarked on his very first world tour. Needless to say, over the whole world, his fans were going crazy with the prospective of seeing the multitalented artist live. Kicking off with a performance in Japan in May, miyavi and his crew then headed to the United States, followed by three performances in [...]
August has just started, and nothing is better than accompanying these hot summer days with a mixtape of summery songs! Here’s a selection of songs that will serve excellently as the soundtrack for this season.
01. Remioromen - Ashita ni kakaru hashi (Horizon)
02. YUI - Rolling star (Rolling Star)
03. Yaida Hitomi - Hitori Jenga (Air/Cook/Sky)
04. ZZ - Yorokobi no [...]
Rockamenco’s name already gives it away: this band’s music is a mix between rock and flamenco. When flamenco vocalist KSK Arita met blues rock guitarist Ichiro in 2004, they decided to create a unit to fuse these music styles together. The following year was spent writing songs, recruiting band members and, in 2006, they were ready [...]
Experimental artist Marqido has released three solo albums to date: Democritus, Democritus II and Democritus III. He is possibly better known in Europe for his work with the Korean experimental artist itta on the project 10. His career seems to be marked with numbers, so with this in mind, we decided to ask him a [...]
The JaME team currently includes over 100 people, all with different backgrounds, cultures and interests. Seeing as we are represented in almost 30 countries, you can imagine that it’s a colorful bunch with a lot of interesting personalities. We wanted to give our readers a glimpse of the team members, so we thought of holding [...]
X JAPAN on roller blade
Let’s go back in time a bit. During the traditional roller blade run through Paris each Friday night, t-shirts that were printed with X JAPAN were handed to the participants attending that evening. They then made their run through the capital, wearing these t-shirts, announcing the opening of the official French [...]
On Friday, the second day of the Japan Expo, there were four more performances.
Day 2:
Lost Color People Concert
The jazz band showed another side to the event with their more adult, classic music, and it was also very interesting.
machine Concert
They started the concert about 30 minutes late, and the show only lasted 20 minutes…and it [...]
SHINee (pronounced in the same way as the word “shiny”) is the newest boy band from SM Entertainment, which is the Korean home to such artists as BoA and Tohoshinki. Despite being so new, they’ve already caused ripples of excitement amongst Korean pop fans, and while young (all the members are aged between 14 and [...]
This year on July 3 - 7, the Japan Expo takes place in Paris. The legendary event is the biggest event related to Japanese culture in Europe, and draws visitors from all over the continent. Next to various events, workshops, presentations and shops related to Japanese culture, every year there are a number of concerts as well. This [...]
A few months ago, the band lynch. asked JaME to do a contest for them. They specifically asked us to do an art contest and have fans draw their portraits. Quite a lot of people contributed, and the band picked four winners, who all received an autographed poster of the band.
Whereas the band seems to [...]
