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 [...]
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 [...]
Although many J-music fans are aware of MORRIE in some way, his small collection of solo releases is quite often overlooked. The more old-school Japanese music fans will be familiar with his work with DEAD END, whereas the new-school fans will probably be more familiar with Creature Creature. Needless to say, MORRIE helps make both [...]
Upon listening to rock band Jinn for the first time, the vocals will immediately catch your attention. Somehow, they seem to trick you into believing that it’s an angry young boy singing but, when listening more closely, it’ll become clear that it’s a female vocalist singing.
The twenty-one year-old Hiitan is, however, nothing like any other [...]
Aira Mitsuki is an up-and-coming electro artist. Despite being just 19 years of age, she has already made a name for herself as one of the premier trance and electro artist in Japan. This was helped, in part, by her winning the 2007 MEGA TRANCE Singer audition. Her music tends to have a sci-fi theme, [...]
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 [...]
