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 Osaka-based [...]

Guitarist #1? Check. Guitarist #2/harmonica player? Check. Girlishly cute lead vocalist? Double Check. This band, that broke onto the scene in early 2006 is enjoying much success. Their fresh brand of ‘cute rock’ seems very well-recieved [...]

Catchy popular romantic rock songs. My natural reaction is to turn my head but my ears can’t help but hear the melody. Eventually I start humming along with song and I’m hooked. This happens far too often these days — but to be honest [...]

Precedents everywhere suggest that there are two things great bands will inevitably face — a) The need for an experimental album to test out different waters, and b) An unfounded, usually immature and harsh [...]

Following the successful December release of RADWIMPS’ 4th album “Okazuno Gohan” (”おかずのごはん”), the band is back with some semi-new coolness.
Almost exactly 2 months after “Okazuno Gohan” hit store shelves, RADWIMPS released their first feature DVD, “RADWIMPS 4.5″ (”RADWIMPS Yon ten Go”) on February 6th. The new and exciting DVD features information on RADWIMPS and the [...]

There’s going to be a double (or triple, quadruple, depending) review of the album later up on the site, but not till Shay gets his copy of green chord since, in his words, he’d “like to save his ears for the CD” instead of succumbing to the necessary evil of internet piracy. God bless his [...]

With green chord, ACIDMAN’s latest album just around the corner — it’s due for a February 7th release — it looks like their promotional efforts are in full force, trying to get the word out to any unfortunate souls who haven’t heard of them. green chord looks set to be yet another successful concept album [...]

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 website [...]

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 are [...]

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 record [...]