Next Music from Tokyo is a series of tours in Canada which is arranged by an awesome guy named Steve hell bent on showing North American audiences the raw talent, determination, and dedication that makes up the fantastic collective of artists in the Tokyo underground music scene. The tour exists on a grass-roots level and is funded by Steve himself with promotion being done by the fans that love the bands and word of mouth. This is the fourth installment and Steve has not stopped for anything to make each installment bigger and better than the next.

Our roundup this…

Wed 4 May – COMIN' KOBE'11

Artists I saw at Commin Kobe this year:

rega
Dirty Old Men
クリープハイプ
Black borders
shetland sheepdog
レトロ本舗
PAN
STANCE PUNKS
NAKED3MINDS
太陽族
The Local Art
蜜
人性補欠

The Local art was pretty disappointing, Taiyouzoku and Retro Honpo were a lot of fun. Wish I could have seen some more artists but no regrets, it was totally great up until the end.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/shizuku_lamento/8ad7bf_achan.jpg
It's A~chan!

So 'love the world' is breaking Oricon records and now the girls have a DVD of their GAME Tour releasing in the next few months(which, I might add, many people were praying for, yours truly included). Perfume is a group I can't deny that I like, as guilty as it makes me feel sometimes. Sure, they are probably one of the biggest pop acts in Japan at present but when the music is this good who can not indulge in at least some of their tracks. For me it's just a very "new" experience since barely any…

So, I've been having some difficulties with Last.FM lately. It's a shame that I only use my Last.FM journal, which may be an excellent way to voice my opinions of artists to people around the world, is to complain about how the site is not cooperating.

Up until now I presumed that Auidoscrobbler kept a list of tracks you listened and submitted them to the site. Well, I guess it sort of works like that. My router is set to block some things(not my fault) and doesn't let up until about 11 at night. All tracks from then until slumber…

This entire time the Japanese language installation files were just right under my nose and I never knew. >_< The important thing is that I have them on now as well as all I need to run audioscrobbler. My Last.Fm account should be active again, something I'm really happy about.

Further more, tagging things will be sooooo much easier with Japanese actually installed. Actually I think everything will. Hopefully I can keep up with music as much as I did before. Not listening to much new but I am expecting a few CD's in the coming week so we will…

If you havent noticed, my account has been inactive for 3 months now. On December 21(my sisters brithday, so I cant forget) my computer went down along with my music, videos, etc. I was able to back up the important things, fortunately, but now I am starting to doubt whether they will ever be returned to a hardrive. Long story. With that my music collection has gone. My hours of sorting, tagging, and ripping music has all been lost.

Even though I have had a computer to use on a daily basis for some time now, I still cannot use…

So, all day today I have been browsing around myspace for some new bands and most of what I heard today is quite impressive. I've experienced some really cool new bands, and some I've been wanting to hear. I feel accomplished.

For some unknown reason I decided to head on over to the profile of シュノーケル(Snowkel) so I could finally listen to Namikaze satellite.

All I can say is that I wasn't sure if I was listening to Going Under Ground, and whether that was indeed a good thing.

So me and snowkel sort of go way back.…

I finally got 2 and 2 together, so my last.fm should be workin a whole lot better now, in terms of Japanese artists and whatnot. It takes awhile to rip CD's, and the process is as follows:

Rip with Winamp(to .m4a)
Convert to .mp3
Rename all files :(

Well, so long as it works I'm happy. I'm thinking of doing some more profiles before I release the Artist section on my site(I also have to get a mp3 cropper). My site:
www.geocities.com/lamento_shizuku

I have scans and some CD reviews and stuff. I just updated the scans a few days ago,…

i never blog here, but this is way important.
Sube, after 10 years with Shachi is leaving the band. i havent been folowwing the band that long but this sure is sad. Shachi's last live:

March 19, 2006

I assure you, i will do anytihng and everything i can to make sure i get to wherever this show is in Japan on that day. perhaps even days before. i willl get a ticket. i will shwo p early. i will bleed in the mosh pit and everything. i will.
ill miss you much Shachi.
~hideki~

just trying to make a point, damned sibling.
~hideki~