Artistry Archives - Raijin Rock Category
I Am There For You: What NANO Wanted To Convey at Matsuricon 2023

I Am There For You: What NANO Wanted To Convey at Matsuricon 2023

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 NANO has a message for fans – they are never alone. Human vulnerabilities – questions of self-worth and belonging, inner emotional battles – can be brutally…

How To Live: A Review of NOIXE by nano

How To Live: A Review of NOIXE by nano

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 Noixe, the raucous, chaotic, but exhilarating 10th anniversary double album by nano, could be the greatest album of 2023. The intensity is relentless. There is no…

Asterism Live In New York City: July 11, 2023; An Explosive Evening Of Metal Guitar: A Review

Asterism Live In New York City: July 11, 2023; An Explosive Evening Of Metal Guitar: A Review

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 Rock critics and fans sometimes use the term “face melting” to describe particularly incendiary guitar solos. While that term may have gone out of style, it…

BAND-MAID: The Puzzling Art of Crafting, Destroying and Rebuilding Rock Songs (A Review of BAND-MAID ONLINE ACOUSTIC OKYU-JI)

BAND-MAID: The Puzzling Art of Crafting, Destroying and Rebuilding Rock Songs (A Review of BAND-MAID ONLINE ACOUSTIC OKYU-JI)

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 Band-Maid are one of the world’s most dangerous rock bands. From a creative standpoint, Band-Maid absolutely refuse to stand still. With each release, the five women…

Rock Music In The Year 2022

Rock Music In The Year 2022

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 In 1969, the center of the world of rock music was London. A rock music lover’s pantheon of the five greatest artists of the day would…

The Year 2021 In Review

The Year 2021 In Review

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 BRIDEAR released an overwhelmingly great new album, and then, somehow, someway, completed a triumphant European tour. Aldious was able to complete a full Japanese tour after…

nano:  A Woman Exploring Life. Review of ANTHESIS

nano: A Woman Exploring Life. Review of ANTHESIS

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 Anthesis is the perfect merging of emotionally resonant voice, intelligent lyrics and engaging rock music. Born in New York City, nano moved to Tokyo as a…

LOVEBITES: the glory of asami (an alternative view of「GLORY, GLORY TO THE WORLD」)

LOVEBITES: the glory of asami (an alternative view of「GLORY, GLORY TO THE WORLD」)

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 LOVEBITES vocalist asami performs an almost unbelievable feat of magic on the recent Extended Play release GLORY, GLORY TO THE WORLD (“GLORY”). In early interviews, LOVEBITES…

LOVEBITES: The genius of miyako

LOVEBITES: The genius of miyako

ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 The rippling, but volcanic, stream of notes that emanates from the compositions of LOVEBITES guitarist miyako is part of a musical tradition that runs from the…

GACHARIC SPIN/DOLL$BOXX/BAND-MAID:  The Progressive Metal Jazz Funk of F Chopper Koga and MISA! MISA! MISA!

GACHARIC SPIN/DOLL$BOXX/BAND-MAID: The Progressive Metal Jazz Funk of F Chopper Koga and MISA! MISA! MISA!

The music instruction book Dictionary of Bass Grooves lists over thirty genres of bass playing techniques. The book includes lessons for Country Rock, Motown, Reggae, Punk Rock…

LOVEBITES: The Balletic Elegance of asami

LOVEBITES: The Balletic Elegance of asami

It might seem obvious that a lead singer would have a dancer’s moves, but in reality, that is far from the case. asami is one of the…

Lovebites: The Devil is in the Details

Lovebites: The Devil is in the Details

Lovebites is as precise a mechanism as a Grand Seiko timepiece. Lovebites is as powerful an industrial machine as a Lexus LFA. Lovebites is as finely tuned…