No Brain’s latest album is big news but it’s their humorously cool, new music video that’s really rockin’.
Korean punk rockers No Brain released their 6th studio album titled 그것이 � �음 (Geugeosi Jeolum, It is Youth) Vol. 5 in September. Their lead single off of the LP goes by the same title and its [...]
The music on plane’s new album localizer is good but the most impressive thing about the album is its super-cool cover art.
localizer is the second full-length studio album from Japanese indie rock band plane. plane (プレーン) consists of Kikuchi Yusuke (菊地佑介, vocals & guitar), Hisamitsu Masaaki (久光正昭, guitar), Kida Yoshifumi (木田佳文, bass), and Kamimoto [...]
Bursting at the seams with melodic beauty and contained emotion, indie band SEASICK really deliver with their latest single. SparkPlugged’s favorite Japanese indie rockers are back and better than ever.
“In her cloth, I found my place” is SEASICK’s latest effort, a prelude to their similarly titled debut mini-album to be released soon. The [...]
Now it doesn’t get much better than this, that is, when it comes to fun, cool, party music bouncing with happiness. Super Kidd (슈퍼키드) is a Korean indie rock band. The 6-member party rock band can be characterized by their uniquely happy and comedic songs and performances [...]
Shing02 is probably best known for his collaboration with producer Nujabes on the Samurai Champloo soundtrack. There is much more to the Japanese emcee than that project of course. Residing in the Bay Area, Oakland, Calif., Shing02 has [...]
A recent musical discovery has left my ears blessed with impressive rock sounds and my mind spinning around catchy melodies.
The band, hare-brained unity caught my attention with an advertisement in ROCKIN’ON JAPAN Magazine. In the ad for their new album, they looked pretty cool so I subsequently looked into them. After checking out their [...]
SPECIAL OTHERS. I can’t get enough of these guys…and with some cool new web finds, they’re worth talking about again.
SPECIAL OTHERS ON ITUNES?
Image Courtesy of SPECIAL OTHERS official site
Yes! It’s not much, but THEY ARE. SPECIAL OTHERS’ debut mini-album, BEN is available on iTunes. I usually like to search iTunes to see if there [...]
Probably the most notable all-female band on the radar these days is チャットモンチー (Chatmonchy). But there is another similar band that deserves much recognition: シェリーズ(Sherrys), an all-female Avant-Garde rock trio.
シェリーズ in ROCKIN’ON JAPAN Magazine
Releasing their first indie single in 2004, Sherrys is a relatively new act that only recently signed a deal with a [...]
