Nighttime Jae

His voice is actually good daaamn 😳

So the vocalist can actually sing ... and TP (the dude on the left who looks like that guy from Watch Dogs) apparently ghost-writes music for Unite and HOWL and used to go by 太志 (Taishi)‏.

Nice! Hopefully, they'll upload the rest soon~ ^^

Clack inc. have uploaded the first half of their May 17th livestream to YouTube! The songs are: 欲執 (Yokuto), 大嫌い。(Daikirai.) and 一撃 (Ichigeki)

Clack inc. have uploaded the first half of their May 17th livestream to YouTube! The songs are: 欲執 (Yokuto), 大嫌い。(Daikirai.) and 一撃 (Ichigeki)

Working crazy, difficulty of dealing with tough times
If you want to break your crazy days
Listen to our songs!
You pretend to brave and your resisting some big power
Even today, somewhere you still stumbling around
But yet, let’s face tomorrow
Listen to us and HOWL ROCK’N’ROLL!!
 
READ:
https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/interview-with-the-doggy-paddle/
 
 

I don't even care about Poidol, but the stuff you guys are saying is simply mean. Cheering over bands disbanding really is in poor taste.

This week, instead of an interview we caught up with NEiN and got comments from each member about the songs on their first full album!

Please check it out and buy the album, if you’re so inclined

Buy it: http://nein-web.com/download-2/

Read: https://vk.gy/blog/self-liner-notes-nein/
 
 
Also this one is cross shared on JAPANESE ROCK'N'ROLL
https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/self-liner-notes-nein-katharsis/
 
 
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It actually feels a bit as an interview (^_^)/ 
For sure to check it out, and let us know, if we should ask more bands for such liner-notes ^^

I don't even care about Poidol, but the stuff you guys are saying is simply mean. Cheering over bands disbanding really is in poor taste.

The MV for "5th", CLACK inc.'s newest digital single, has been released. You can find the song available on every streaming service.
 
The MV was filmed and edited by CLACK inc.'s ex-member Baku (guitar, ex-Zerogumi) on the same day and stage of their previous livestream concert.
 
 
The current line-up is:
 
Takeru (ex-EVE), vocals
 
Ryo (ex-EVE), guitar R
 
+Yuu (Ultimate Sonic, ex- Marvelous Maiden, Zodia, Affective Synergy), guitar L
 
Avel (ex-Veinrot), bass
 
Kenbo (ex-Art Elicia), drums

The MV for "5th", CLACK inc.'s newest digital single, has been released. You can find the song available on every streaming service.
 
The MV was filmed and edited by CLACK inc.'s ex-member Baku (guitar, ex-Zerogumi) on the same day and stage of their previous livestream concert.
 
 
The current line-up is:
 
Takeru (ex-EVE), vocals
 
Ryo (ex-EVE), guitar R
 
+Yuu (Ultimate Sonic, ex- Marvelous Maiden, Zodia, Affective Synergy), guitar L
 
Avel (ex-Veinrot), bass
 
Kenbo (ex-Art Elicia), drums

https://twitcasting.tv/clack_inc
 
CLACK inc. are live now! First half is talk session, then it's the actual live

Off the top of my head: Clack inc., Doku, Clack inc., Lamiya, Clack inc., Micbam, Clack inc., Eluna, Clack inc., JE:NOVA, Clack inc., Ultimate Sonic, Clack inc., Visual Laboratory, Clack inc., Hueye, Clack inc., Astaroth, and last but not least... Clack inc. 😜
 
Oh, almost forgot, Clack inc. Marvelous Cruelty are from Osaka too!

Thank you!
 
all 3 are really nice dudes.
Also the drummer (Shin-chan)  he is also the drummer of THE MINKS
hope he stays healthy....
 
hope they still all healthy.
 
I became a friend of them because of THE VACK'S. and THE VACK'S I know thanks to THE HIGH GRIP (Calmando Qual) lol
 
MMS
I'm glad to know them
I'm really happy.
 
So,
everyone,
check them out.
 
their music is easy to like... such rock music is easy to like. it's good, its enjoying rock music, will stay good forever. doesn't matter what age you are, you will enjoy it your whole life once you like it.
 
And,,,
older people who still play with such spirit you should check out anyway.
 
if we can go to Tokyo again
be sure to visit a gig of them also if your schedule will allow it.
There will be always someone willing to talk to you. (don't worry about that)
Whenever your japanese is bad or not, they happy to meet you.  They show you 1000x more "gratitude" than any visual kei band would show to you.
 

Okay these dudes look rad, I stan them already based on how they look alone :'D

MMS plays Simple and speedy ROCK’N’ROLL! They are a minimal unit who are sticking to the style of a three-piece, rockabilly, R&B, R&R, and PUNK together with their own sense of originality. MMS are offering amazing live performances. Also all members can use their voice as an instrument. All members are showing their skills in writing lyrics, composing songs etc. MMS shows an unique three piece style which gives a totally different expression than most R’N’R bands. The members ride motorcycles in their normal life, so they live their lifestyle as cool bikers. Because of that some of their songs are of course related to motorcycles and touring around!
 
Be sure to read the interview to learn more about this amazing rocking band!
Never give up your dreams, whatever age you have, keep on rocking! 
 
https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/interview-with-mms-rampr-engineering
 
 

CLACK inc. will have a concert stream on Twitcast on May 17th. Completely free.
 
Here's the schedule:
 
Part one - Talk session (6.30 PM to 7.30 PM JST)
Part two - Live (8 PM to 9 PM JST)

CLACK inc. will have a concert stream on Twitcast on May 17th. Completely free.
 
Here's the schedule:
 
Part one - Talk session (6.30 PM to 7.30 PM JST)
Part two - Live (8 PM to 9 PM JST)

I feel this way about Kizu. Lime is heavily involved in the whole creative process but you can still tell they are being produced a certain way.

I don't even care about Poidol, but the stuff you guys are saying is simply mean. Cheering over bands disbanding really is in poor taste.

I'm far from an old hand in the fandom but I think I know what you're getting at. I’m actually gonna invert the question order because my thought process caused 2 to lead to 1:
 
2) From my perspective, Idol Kei is made up of Kawaii af Oshare Kei bands that don’t have a special sound to them and sound like they could’ve been mass-produced.  They're really successful despite being run of the mill and may just be industry plants. I don’t want to name names because it's just conjecture and they could be innocent. One of the biggest indicators, to me, is a lack of previous band history, i.e this is either their first or second band they’ve been a part of. It’s usually never more. It’s especially telling if they never had some dumbass high school garage band that was… Well, doing something. Or in the rare exceptions like Lunacy, showing some real promise and raw talent that just needs to be polished up. Tangent note, I’ve noticed in the VK fandom that we’re anal af about listing out a member’s previous band history. I’ve seen people write out band histories that span like 10 different bands for each member in forums and comments sections. Could this be a by-product of wanting to see the artistic process and evolution, or to check for industry plants? Well, that’s just conjecture...
 
1) That leads me to here. Stuff that makes me think, “Huh, is a debut band like this really making stuff that sounds this polished already? And damn, they kinda sound just like [some other band that sounds generic]” makes me wonder if they really did write it. One big indicator that a band isn’t ghostwritten is when the band members have a history that I can follow around. When I follow that history, I can usually find patterns in songwriting that trace to one member. Such as a love for that new wave sound he grew up with as a teen or a jazz influence from his formal lessons. Also, artistic evolution is a big indicator of a band being 100% "real", if you will, such as incorporating different genre elements as time goes by or being able to hear their music evolve as the members gain more experience with writing and performing songs.
 
3) That’s… Tricky. I’d go back as far as the early 2000s when An cafe existed, but were they really that manufactured? Maybe later then, but then I wouldn’t really know what year exactly. The jury’s out on this one 

4) As biased as I am to old school stuff and underground stuff that sounds like it was recorded on the vocalist’s bootleg Chinese Yak-Bak, I still listen to new school stuff, occasionally even bands that I think could be ghost written. It's cute and danceable, and it's usually written competently so it's not technically bad. Besides, sometimes I just need a break from the concept pieces and experimental songs from angura bands I love, ya know? Nothing wrong with that.
 
5) Every genre and scene deals with ghostwriting, even ones where literally all you write are the lyrics (big lol @ rap ghostwriting considering that in this day and age you can just read the writing on the wi-fi router and slap a trap beat over it to make a hit), I think VK won’t be negatively impacted by this by too much. Besides, it's not like these sickeningly saccharine sweet boy groups claim to be high art or some shit. There’s so much more that could seriously shoot VK in the foot, like continuing cute but ancient industry practices until the whole damn industry collapses.
 
6) I listen to lots more than just Visual Kei, but it’s still my #1 ever since I discovered it a few years ago. I wrote a long-ass paragraph on this in another thread but here’s a TL;DR:
- Jrock chords, baby, I want that shit injected into my bloodstream. They are actually really different from the Western pop chords. I’m no music major so I’ll spare you the half-assed music theory lesson and simply compare them in layman’s terms. Jrock chords are like a “question and answer” type of progression that resolves itself in an intrinsically… pleasant manner? It provides the question to the answer, simply. Western pop is like a “whole statement” type of progression, it’s meant to add more statements on to it.
- I love the looks a lot, they make the PVs so much more fun to watch! VK to me is more than looking pretty, it’s about expressing the meaning of the music through the use of visuals, using it as a compliment to the lyrics or even just with the actual song structure.
- I like how the lyrics are so much more subtle than in English. I know that it's a by-product of how Japanese is as a language when compared to English, but even still, I'm gonna argue this one because I have translated songs (mostly in my head these days) before and their subtle meanings don't get completely lost in translation, the thought process still stays intact in English. It’s actually kind of ruined English songs for me in all honesty because now many sound like “Hurr-Durr, I have to actually tell you how to feel about what I just said instead of letting you interpret it or understand the implications”. I could go on a rant about this shit. But let’s just say an English artist would say “I killed myself then everyone was sad” and a Japanese artist would say “[I was] erased from this earth, a fact that your tears tried to blur out”. I understand that being vague is upsetting to some but I feel like spelling it out so bluntly like so many western artists do is insulting to the listener’s intelligence. Or at least my intelligence…

This is a very good analysis and I don't have anything to add to that specifically, but I will say one thing: it seems like the general idea is that it's only the bands in the current scene that are basically labels' puppets who don't write their own music, and albeit this is definitely true in some cases, I feel like this has pretty much always been a thing in vk? I remember that interview from years ago from an insider in the industry talking about older bands of the 90's- early 00's, and there was talk about bands using ghost-writers even then.
 
In my opinion, if you wanna make sure that bands write their own music, stick to indies or at least follow the bands closely enough to know if they ever post about their composition process and stuff like that. Most bands I follow often post previews of the music they've been writing and stuff like that, so I don't even question it. That and of course pay attention to their evolution and sound and past bands and stuff like that, like most people have said. Basically, keep your eyes open.

I think in the case of Hueye, it seems like less of "someone is writing the music for them" and more "they're being heavily produced / guided to be portrayed a certain way". A release every 6 months really isn't astronomically overbearing, but people are quick to compare them to Mejibray and I can't help but feel that was done on purpose.

This is a very good analysis and I don't have anything to add to that specifically, but I will say one thing: it seems like the general idea is that it's only the bands in the current scene that are basically labels' puppets who don't write their own music, and albeit this is definitely true in some cases, I feel like this has pretty much always been a thing in vk? I remember that interview from years ago from an insider in the industry talking about older bands of the 90's- early 00's, and there was talk about bands using ghost-writers even then.
 
In my opinion, if you wanna make sure that bands write their own music, stick to indies or at least follow the bands closely enough to know if they ever post about their composition process and stuff like that. Most bands I follow often post previews of the music they've been writing and stuff like that, so I don't even question it. That and of course pay attention to their evolution and sound and past bands and stuff like that, like most people have said. Basically, keep your eyes open.

This is a very good analysis and I don't have anything to add to that specifically, but I will say one thing: it seems like the general idea is that it's only the bands in the current scene that are basically labels' puppets who don't write their own music, and albeit this is definitely true in some cases, I feel like this has pretty much always been a thing in vk? I remember that interview from years ago from an insider in the industry talking about older bands of the 90's- early 00's, and there was talk about bands using ghost-writers even then.
 
In my opinion, if you wanna make sure that bands write their own music, stick to indies or at least follow the bands closely enough to know if they ever post about their composition process and stuff like that. Most bands I follow often post previews of the music they've been writing and stuff like that, so I don't even question it. That and of course pay attention to their evolution and sound and past bands and stuff like that, like most people have said. Basically, keep your eyes open.