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Akira Ishige from the telephones looks great recently, IMO. Plus his laugh is adorable, and he has dimples.
 
  

beniselflove?

beniselflove?

The whole 'dressing after your subculture' can be cool, but it always makes my eyes roll back into my sockets whenever I hear people like that going on and on about how 'all you mainstream SHEEPLE look and dress the same!!!' when they're doing exactly that as well

beniselflove?

beniselflove?

Is anyone else going to catch NMFT7? I'm going to the first Toronto show.
 
I'm not super excited about the line-up from the samples I've heard so far, but I wasn't any of the other years I went and I always ended up really enjoying at least one of the bands. Plus it's only $10, so I can drag my friends along without feeling like a jerk.
 
Bands: otori, PENs+, Atlantis Airport, mothercoat, OWARIKARA
 
June 12: Toronto @ Soybomb
June 13: Toronto @ Lee's Palace
June 15: Montreal @ Divan Orange
June 17: Vancouver @ Biltmore Cabaret
July 20:  Tokyo @ Shindaita FEVER
 
http://www.nextmusicfromtokyo.com/
 
 

Is anyone else going to catch NMFT7? I'm going to the first Toronto show.
 
I'm not super excited about the line-up from the samples I've heard so far, but I wasn't any of the other years I went and I always ended up really enjoying at least one of the bands. Plus it's only $10, so I can drag my friends along without feeling like a jerk.
 
Bands: otori, PENs+, Atlantis Airport, mothercoat, OWARIKARA
 
June 12: Toronto @ Soybomb
June 13: Toronto @ Lee's Palace
June 15: Montreal @ Divan Orange
June 17: Vancouver @ Biltmore Cabaret
July 20:  Tokyo @ Shindaita FEVER
 
http://www.nextmusicfromtokyo.com/
 
 

it's not post-britpop though
 

 

Seriously though, why does this exist?
 

^Oh no, I thought my days of hearing the names Queeny Blast Pop and Peppermint Creeps were over when I stopped posting on hair metal forums.
 
Now you just need to talk about how Warrant's Dog Eat Dog album is a lost masterpiece and it'll feel just like home.

The new MO'SOME song isn't really blowing my mind. Momo makes a sexy doctor though.
 

Did half of this a long time ago, and I finally got around to finishing it. It probably has some mistakes, but I think the gist of what he's saying is there.
 

 
Our Internal War*
 
Music and Lyrics: Shinoyama Kosei
 
The clothes that I’m wearing are things that were made by someone else
The thoughts that I’m struck with are ideas that someone else has had before
 
I turn all the originality I can summon up into a weapon
And face my invisible enemies
Over and over, I brandish it in front of them
 
How long will this internal war continue?
What the hell will it take to mould my vague existence into shape?
Ah, before I know it I’ll be gone**
When I can’t grab hold of anything like this, I wonder who exactly I want to become
 
The road that I should set my sights on is a path that was made by someone else
Even the wall that I’m fighting against is a wall that someone else has already passed over before me
 
Even the best answer I’ve ever come up with – one that I’ve searched for with all my might
Was met with comments like “Isn’t that idea played out?” from people I don’t know***
 
So, what should I do?
 
How long will this internal war continue?
What the hell will it take to mould my vague existence into shape?
Ah, before I know it I’ll be gone
When I can’t grab hold of anything like this, I wonder who exactly I want to become
 
How long will this internal war continue?
What the hell will it take to mould my vague existence into shape?
Ah, before I know it I’ll be gone
But I’m me, this is how I am,
And I can't become someone else
 
Let’s continue our internal war like this
They might not be enough to dazzle anyone else****
But I hope we can find our answers someday
 
I’ve gotta head out on the 8 o’clock train
I’ve gotta head out on the 8 o’clock train
 
Notes:
*as in a war between a person and his/her self
**I'm assuming this means he’ll be dead and out of time
***I'm really not sure about this line
****Or this
 
僕らの自分戦争 / Bokura no jibun sensou
 
Boku ga mi ni tsukeru MONO wa dareka ga tsukutta tsukuriMONO
Boku ga omoitsuku KOTO mo dareka ga saki ni yatta KOTO
 
Hineridaseru kagiri no
ORIGINARITI o buki ni shite
Mienai teki ni mukai
Nandomo sore o furikazashita
 
Bokura no jibun sensou
Itsumade tsuzuku no?
Aimai na boku o katachizukuru mono wa ittai nan nanda?
Aa itsu no ma ni jibun nante
Doko ni mo inaku natte
Boku wa nanimo te ni dekinai mama de
Dare ni naritai n darou naa
 
Boku ga mezasu-beki michi wa
Dareka ga tsukutta toorimichi
Boku ga tachimukau kabe mo
Dareka ga saki ni koeta kabe
 
Seiippai mitsukedashita
Jibun shijousaikou no kotae mo
“Sore tte nanban senji na no?” tte
Shiranai HITO ni iwarete ita
 
Jaa doushiyou
 
Bokura no jibun sensou
Itsumade tsuzuku no?
Aimai na boku o katachizukuru mono wa ittai nan da?
Aa itsu no ma ni jibun nante
Doko ni mo inaku natte
Boku wa nanimo te ni dekinai mama de
Dare ni naritai n darou naa
 
Bokura no jibun sensou
Itsumade tsuzuku no?
Aimai na boku o katachizukuru mono wa ittai nan nanda?
Aa itsu no ma ni jibun nante
Doko ni mo inaku natte
Demo boku wa boku de boku no mama de
Dare ni nareru wake ja nai na
 
Bokura no jibun sensou
Kono mama tsuzukeyou
Shinjinakya! tte hodo de wa nai n dakedo
Itsuka mitsukerareru to ii naa
 
Hachi-ji no densha de mukawanakucha
Hachi-ji no densha de mukawanakucha
 
Kanji:
http://j-lyric.net/artist/a056d71/l0328bd.html

So Nothing's Carved In Stone and 04 Limited Sazabys were in the same room, and this happened:
 

I keep thinking "Wow, I miss THE BEATMOTORS." even though they're still active and they just released a new album last year... "3" was okay, but most of the songs just don't have the same vibe as their older stuff. "Kirei na shoujo" is still just so good.
 

2015.04.01 Release
Will come in regular edition (COCP-39047/￥2,400+tax) and limited edition w/ DVD (COZP-1025～6/￥3,000+tax).
 

 
【CD】 01. days 02. Terminal  03. medley 04. fiction 05. Higher 06. swim 07. Grasshopper 08. knife  09. teleport 10. me? 11. Any 12. milk 13. Buster call 【DVD】 ◇"Special Music Movie" inclueded 「knife」＆「Terminal」Music Video ◇"Live Movie"2014.12.27 ＠Nagoya Diamond HALL    

Kyosuke Himuro x Teru (GLAY)
 

Momo Kazuhiro (MO'SOME TONEBENDER) x Chiba Yusuke (The Birthday, ex-Thee Michelle Gun Elephant)

lord
 
 
 
 
do you have any idea of how expensive recording studio equipment is or the expertise required to mix and master? anyone can record at home but it's gonna sound like you recorded at home. 
 
being a working musician is a full time job. you can't hold down a 9-5 and be travelling the country whilst soundchecking/publicising/practising/recording/mastering throughout the day and playing gigs at night. 
ok ayn rand
ok marx
 
a lot of musicians love performing. but even more musicians love eating and being able to pay rent. 
how dare these musicians charge us, the fans!, for taking time out of their schedule to pretend to be interested in hugging you.
 
 
----
 
crowdfunding is the future, while it is open to abuse, it pretty much self-regulates as most fans aren't willing to be stung twice on musicians who promise and don't deliver or musicians who con (amanda palmer). crowdfunding gives fans a chance to help from the ground up new music/live tours/etc - and I hope it'll be really embraced within the vk community in japan after this as a way of getting overseas fans to finally put their money where their mouths are with complaining about accessibility to music. 
 
 
however i won't be contributing to alice nine's as they are trash

I went with option 2. I find it really charming for certain artists. Especially bands that are a bit more on the silly side, like the telephones, the pillows, pop punk bands, etc. There are certain songs that just wouldn't be anywhere near as fun to sing along to in Japanese.
 
This one, for example:

 
It gets a bit harder to make it work for more serious songs, but some singers pull it off.

I went with option 2. I find it really charming for certain artists. Especially bands that are a bit more on the silly side, like the telephones, the pillows, pop punk bands, etc. There are certain songs that just wouldn't be anywhere near as fun to sing along to in Japanese.
 
This one, for example:

 
It gets a bit harder to make it work for more serious songs, but some singers pull it off.

THE SOUND BEE HD limited-period DVD-R "Ghostorage LIVE II" will be released through Starwave Records official web-shop and at their live since Ikebukuro CHOP at 2015/02/11 and up to 2015/03/23 (3,500yen, limited 100)
 
[track list]
01.葬
02.煌
03.毒
04.cry
05.DAWN OF THE DEAD
06.reign of death
07.DARKNESS WORLD
08.nowhere
09.想
10.again
11.砕
12.answer
13.すべてに光りを すべてに愛を
14.Live

Seconding Hitomi Yaida and Silent Siren.
 
Also, no mentions for Shonen Knife and Judy and Mary?
 
I'm not a diehard fan of theirs, but Shonen Knife have the cutest lyrics ever.
 
"He gets his kicks from a tiny toy
A green frog filled with catnip
And pretty soon he's gonna be seventeen
Kitty cat birthday party
 
Catnip is a kitty cat drug
We plant catnip seeds together
All summer long he watches it growing
Dreaming of the harvest moon
 
Catnip dream, catnip dream, catnip dream
Meow, meow, meow"
 
Judy and Mary

Exactly the site I was talking about! I can honestly thank them for getting me in to a lot of the artists that I enjoy

Seconding Hitomi Yaida and Silent Siren.
 
Also, no mentions for Shonen Knife and Judy and Mary?
 
I'm not a diehard fan of theirs, but Shonen Knife have the cutest lyrics ever.
 
"He gets his kicks from a tiny toy
A green frog filled with catnip
And pretty soon he's gonna be seventeen
Kitty cat birthday party
 
Catnip is a kitty cat drug
We plant catnip seeds together
All summer long he watches it growing
Dreaming of the harvest moon
 
Catnip dream, catnip dream, catnip dream
Meow, meow, meow"
 
Judy and Mary

Seconding Hitomi Yaida and Silent Siren.
 
Also, no mentions for Shonen Knife and Judy and Mary?
 
I'm not a diehard fan of theirs, but Shonen Knife have the cutest lyrics ever.
 
"He gets his kicks from a tiny toy
A green frog filled with catnip
And pretty soon he's gonna be seventeen
Kitty cat birthday party
 
Catnip is a kitty cat drug
We plant catnip seeds together
All summer long he watches it growing
Dreaming of the harvest moon
 
Catnip dream, catnip dream, catnip dream
Meow, meow, meow"
 
Judy and Mary