This May 2nd marked the tenth year since hide passed away. JaME put together a special hide memorial theme in his honor and obtained comments from several musicians and industry professionals concerning the famous and ever-inspiring guitarist.
Also ANGEL-TAKA from NOIZ contributed, but was unable to meet the deadline, so here are his comments about hide [...]
Sonic Dragolgo is a London-based self-proclaimed electro pop superstar. The somewhat unusual name is drawn from an amalgamation of the names of the animes Doraemon and Golgo 13, along with the first name of a certain Sega hedgehog.
Sonic Dragolgo has been producing music since the age of 17, when he bought his first synthesizer, and [...]
The pop-rock group SCANDAL will play in concert at Japan Expo this July. SCANDAL’s music is characterised by guitar, bass and powerful drums. It is pure energy. The harmony between these four young ladies is even more prominent in concert.
So, we proudly present a video, which doesn’t feature the ladies, on this blog. The link [...]
On April 26, the anime convention Tora Con was held in Rochester NY. One of the guests of the relatively small con was the Japanese pop band Unicorn Table, who appeared at Tora-con’s Q & A panel to answer questions from fans and to set the stage for their live performance later that night.
Fans will [...]
Last year, the fantasy-inspired band Celestia le Ciel performed in Rome. They recorded a comment for us (our apologies for the bad sound quality!), and instead of the JaME team members writing a report about their live, the two band members wrote one themselves, presenting us with their view on the concert.
Live Report
We held a [...]
Quite some time ago already, we put up a post in which we asked our readers to submit questions for JaME. It took quite some time (we were secretly waiting for more questions!) but here are the answers, answered by various members of the team:
Wanze: It’s not a big question, but I’m missing the direct [...]
Kay:
To be honest, when we started this hide memorial project, I was very skeptical about it. My first thought was: why do we do this for hide, and not for the countless other Japanese musicians that have also passed away? And does hide really have as big an influence on the scene as everybody claims [...]
