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 [...]

“An enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.” is how dictionary.com describes the term fan. When it comes to the music business, an artist’s fans might be the most important part of their career. The math is easy: if there is no one to spend money on an artist, CDs are [...]

The JaME weblog team proudly presents the new, improved weblog!
As you can see, the blog has undergone major renovation works.  A lot of blood, sweat and tears has gone into the creation and design on this blog so we hope that you like it as much as we do.  The blog still works in the [...]

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 [...]

Occasionally, the JaME team members do interviews, but not everything always goes right. From being told that there would be a translator but not having one show up, band members in bad moods giving off the “hurry, I want to leave as soon as possible!” vibe, worn-out band members falling asleep during the conversation to [...]

Despite JaME’s current situation, the teams are remaining active and we are hoping that our readers will do the same! As our readers are so important to us, we are hoping that you will help us with suggestions that will make the site even better, in particular, the artist database.
As many people are aware, the [...]

Today, JaME crashed again. Some of you might have noticed that it has also happened two days ago, but we were able to fix that within a few minutes.
However, this time it’s not a case of ten minutes, but a much bigger problem which will unfortunately take much more time to fix.
Currently, only the forum [...]

Not all good bands have a record deal with a major label, but luckily a lot of those talented indie bands from Japan have a MySpace account. You’ve probably found some bands there that you’ve really liked, and maybe even added them to your friends list…and so have we. Here are just a few of [...]

On December 31st, 1997, X Japan held their Last Live in Japan before they went on hiatus. The break would last for ten years, and the joy of the many fans as the legendary rock band recently announced they would be active again, opening with two concerts, could be felt around the world. These two [...]