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Jrock & Jpop
High and Mighty Color
Jrock bands: High and Mighty Color (HandMC) were part self-formed band, part bionic creation by a Sony mogul. They are no more, but their legacy and vast fanbase live on...
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Yukiko Okada - Japanese Idol Superstar
To be a Japanese idol you must be pressure-proof. And what human is? Yukiko Okada, owner of the famed Yukko Smile (unless you count the fans and media as the real owners) was a Japanese idol who paid for her success.
Anti-Folk Art Blues
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
"Will the real bob Dylan please stand up?" Monsieur Tom Waits is a multifaceted artist, underrated musician with a voice like broken glass, actor, brilliant poet, a god, etc. Get to know him better with his 1985 album, RAIN DOGS.
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Jrock fans - advice for parents
A niche interest doesn't have to be frightening. Is your child a J-Rock (Japanese Rock) fan or Visual Kei fan? If you're curious and think someone you know might be a Jrocker (or riot grrrl, or just anything niche) here's a guide on how to understand them.
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Anti-folk
Anti-folk music takes the traditional way that folk songs tell stories and turns them into a farce for subversive reasons. Moldy Peaches? Regina Spektor? Anti-folk...
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Helen Love
Punk pop: Is it time for you to listen to welsh pop-punk outfit Helen Love? Why, yes. It is. Not only did these riot grrls coin the phrase girl power but they only listen to the Ramones...
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Blaqk Audio
Electronica: When dark sonic US punk band AFI feel chilling out, they combine as Blaqk Audio to produce Bjork-tinged electronica with hints of nineties synth...
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Mon Frere
Music reviews: 'Mon Frere' is electroshock, jazz-tinged dance-pop with a punk rock attitude. And they only sing about monsters, serial murderesses and vampires who get shitfaced.
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The Birthday Massacre
Industrial rock: The Birthday Massacre came life in early 2000 but they're still around - their last album was recorded in 2007, "Walking With Strangers".
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The Moldy Peaches
Indie rock: "Here is the church / and here is the steeple. We sure are cute for two ugly people." Bite into Kimya Dawson and the Moldy Peaches, an anti-folk band popularised by 'Juno'.
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J music - Exist Trace
J-music: Exist†trace is an all-girl cross-dressing Visual-Kei rock band from Tokyo. It's not screamo, but think heavy metal, melodic death metal, and gothic metal...
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Evelyn Evelyn
Alt folk music: Ladies and gentlemen, critics and hipsters. Have you heard the new disc by the Evelyn sisters? Learn about Evelyn Evelyn, the band discovered by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley.
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Celebrate Record Store Day!
Riot Grrl:Like giant pandas and baleen whales, indie record shops are a dying breed. Let's join Amanda Palmer, Spoon and Jack White in dishing love to indie record shops on Record Store Day!
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Radio Tuna - free online radio
Free internet music: Radio Tuna gives you real-time search for free online radio. Choose from thousands of free internet radio stations and listen to free music without downloading...
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The girl who cried wolf - Sierra Swan
Grrrl rock: Why is it that so much dross is splattered over the music charts when real gals never get a look in? Sierra Swan is back with her honestly-titled album, "The girl who cried wolf"...
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Blood Red Shoes
Grrrl rock: Like a far more gorgeous yet bizarre White Stripes clone from Brighton, Laura-May Carter and Steve Ansell of Blood Red Shoes are cartwheeling up the charts and performed at Ladyfest...
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Meet Harmony De'kya
Electro music: We think that the lovely Harmony De'kya sounds like Meg White disguised as Shampoo (Uh-oh, we're in trouble...) on crack. And that is definitely a good thing. Meet Harmony De'kya...
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J music - Hangry & Angry and Ali Project
J-music: HANGRY & ANGRY and ALI PROJECT are two Gothic Lolita bands with very similar fashion and sound (gothic and dark). Their music features in animes and they're japanese idol icons...
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Skunk Anansie - Smashes and Trashes
Music reviews: We welcome the impressive return of Skunk Anansie with their aptly-named "Smashes and Trashes" collection of greatest hits (including 3 new singles). Boundary breaking contemporary music? Check. Iconic female lead? Check. Epic back catalogue? Check. If you're wearing socks, prepare to have them blown off.
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Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Music reviews: Paramore talks Risk, Religion, Relationships and Success on Brand New Eyes.
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Vera Lynn - The forces' sweetheart
Music reviews: The release of "We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn" coincides with the 70th anniversary of the declaration of WW2. A musical goddess of the 1940s, Vera Lynn prepares to enchant the nation once more...
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Dillinger Escape Plan
Music reviews: Dillinger Escape Plan has been producing uncompromising metal for more than a decade. Renowned for their wild, energetic live shows and the ingenuity of their output, they are a band that has been labelled as punk jazz and math core (whatever that means).
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Spinnerette
Music reviews: After the Distillers split, punk rock queen Brody Dalle formed the Spinnerettes with members from the Distillers and Queens of the Stone Age. She's added dance and emotion but retained her strength. With her latest Spinnerettes album, Brody ain't gonna lose many old fans. Just gain new ones.
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Rolo Tomassi
Music reviews: Synth-powered mathcore experimental punk band Rolo Tomassi hail from Sheffield and are taking 2009 by storm...
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Vocaloids - the sound of the future
Music reviews: Vocaloids are singing synthesizers not living singers - but their beautiful J-Rock and Enka songs might suit your fancy. And a FREE YOUTUBE TO MP3 CONVERTER means you can scrape MP3s, vocaloid or otherwise, off YouTube...
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Deliberate Lies - Art Industrial
Music reviews: Deliberate Lies is the self produced, fully independent musical effort of guitarist Jon Hillyard and singer/pianist Andrew "Rage" Reid. Think Doctor Who crossed with Muse, Emilie Autumn and Rammstein...
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Sonisphere - UK music festival is a Metal Ball of Sound
Music festivals: Is there enough room in the UK for another music festival? You bet! This summer, the people behind the original Monsters of Rock, and the creator of Download the Unholy Alliance and Defenders Of The Faith brought you a brand-new festival. Sonisphere...
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Chatmonchy
Music reviews: Chatmonchy, a three-piece all girl band from Tokushima, Japan, has been around since 2000 and has had multiple songs hit the top of the charts. Not bad for a band whose name intentionally has no meaning.
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J-rock with Tommy Kawase and The Brilliant Green
Music reviews: Who can pull off three different styles of J-rock with three different personas? Not a lot of people, that's who. Yet Tomoko Kawase (or Tommy as she is lovingly nicknamed, or Tommy February6, or Tommy Heavenly6) has quite a few tricks up her Elmo-puppeted sleeve.
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The Dead Weather - Horehound
Music reviews: Take a whisk of rock, a syrup spoon of country and a sprinkle of The Kills and The Raconteurs and what do you get? The Dead Weather. But can they live up to their supergroup status?
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Regina Spektor - Far
Music reviews: Regina Spektor is yet another crazy, talented songstress with powerful lyrics and strong melodies. And she does a sound dolphin impression, too...
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La Roux - In for the kill
Music reviews: La Roux is glitchy, spunky, eighties-retro electropop that has odd roots and packs a punch. And it's nice to know sometimes bands are still formed by friends not Simon Cowell - La Roux met the old-fashioned way. At a party.
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Sierra Swan - Queen of the Valley
Music reviews: Some mags describe Sierra Swan as lesbian rock. Fools. They'll say any old thing to fill column inches. She's a strong alternative woman who sings hard songs wrapped in Jagermeister. If you like the low throated voices of PJ Harvey, Amanda Palmer and Regina Spektor, Sierra might be what you've been looking for.
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Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me - album review
Marilyn Manson's "Eat me, drink me" album is filled with Alice in Wonderland references and emo allusions to divorce proceedings with Dita Von Teese - but does it deliver?
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Andrea Faithful - all hail the new electro queen
Many claim an electro title for themselves, but disco style, a dance hit and a few paparazzi shots do not an electro queen make. Andrea Faithful is proper scary electric.
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It's Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Music reviews: 'It's Blitz!' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is that difficult third album. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are challenging themselves with heavy synth and a disco drive... but will this change of direction work for their regular fans?
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DIOYY - You have no idea what you're getting yourself into
What if space aliens were taught human ways by punk rockers, learned how to play music (easy on the distortion there, alien!) then gained popularity as a band? Meet Does It Offend You, Yeah?.
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Lesbians on ecstasy
Music reviews: Lesbians On Ecstasy (AKA Lezzies on X) is an electro band from Montreal. If you like Robots in Disguise and the harder electro sound of Peaches, then give these electro terriers a try. Fear ye not - their tuff electro sound won't turn you into a drug-spangled sapphic freak. Probably.
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Isa and the Filthy Tongues
Music reviews: It's weak sauce to just namecheck people that a band's sound reminds you of, but when those people are Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Sleater Kinney, The Killers and the Pixies, you know you're onto a good thing with dark indie outfit Isa and the Filthy Tongues...
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Dekadens
Music reviews: Dekadens is a post-punk indie band with a touch of electro. They've toured the hell out of Romania, they're about to tour America - and they're fronted by the lovely Starsfade from our very own messageboard...
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Florence and the Machine
Music reviews: Florence and the Machine? She's a bit like Kate Bush and she's signed to Moshi Moshi records. Dress code for a Florence gig? None, but consider: Long robes and cape for Florence, MGMT-style psychedelia for you. Mookychick salutes Florence and her Machine!
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Kiss Kiss - Reality vs the Optimist
Music reviews: Kiss Kiss are guitary, screamy, haunting, romantic, optimistic about our reality - they have a huge following yet always say thank you for their fan art. For their classical influences and calming yet awakening way of playing, Velma Velvet gives them 4 out of five stars.
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Download Robots in disguise
Music reviews: Dee Plume and Sue Denim are the main girls behind Robots in disguise, an electro outfit that is witty, sharp and is all about hyping up the superficial in true electro style. Also, Sue Denim used to go out with Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh. We like them big lots, they fill our hearts with little blue lightning strikes! So download their mp3s now...
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Download Elastica
Music reviews: Elastica were a predominately female British Britpop band who emerged to great critical acclaim in 1993. Influenced by The Fall and controversially by Wire, Elastica were in the papers as much for their rock lifestyle as for their music (sometimes for nicking other peoples' riffs), but their punchy 2-3 minute punkpop songs were solid as hell.
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Nightmare Revisited
Music reviews: 'Nightmare Revisited' is the new CD for Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. It features cover versions of the entire soundtrack by bands and singers like Manson, Amy Lee, Shiny Toy Guns and Sparklehorse. Yes, we loved the original musical. Will we like the songs as much when we view them through the looking glass? Alessa Valentin finds out if the spirit of Jack is truly back.
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Emilie Autumn - the winter of our content
Music reviews: Courtney Love's "anarchy violinist" returns to the stage and is keeping the spotlight all to herself. Fresh off the road as Ms. Love's touring bandmate, Emilie Autumn's devilishly dark lyrics and industrial-strength voice reinvent "gothic" for us all.
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Metric
Music reviews: Metric are an indie outfit who come on like a new wave dance band. They're verging on mainstream. But the very fashionistas and consumerists they satirised in songs like "Dead Disco," "Combat Baby" and "The List" are now singing along with them.
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The Kills
Music reviews: Alison 'VV' Mosshart of Anglo-American indie rock band The Kills (gorgeous lo-fi likened to the White Stripes) has been known to spend her time chainsmoking and vomiting onstage. Nevermind the bollocks, here's The Kills!
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Yelle
Music reviews: Yelle (a slamming of Yeah and Elle) is a French electro chick who rose to fame on myspace.com when she posted a song dissing hip-hop band TTC. Find out more!
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Siouxsie Sioux
Music reviews: Everyone likes Siouxsie Sioux. She's the queen of the New Wave. Some call her goth, some call her punk... she's influenced everyone from indie rock to trip hop. Find out more.
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Five Tips for Real Karaoke Survival
Music reviews: Play-nice karaoke was invented by the Japanese 20 years ago, but real karaoke can usually be found in a local pub. Don't worry, there'll be a piece of neon yellow paper in the window advertising 'Steveoke' or 'Okey Dokey Karaoke' to light the way. Once inside, there are certain rules of etiquette to which you must adhere - so the following survival tips should help you get the very best out of your night on the mic.
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Lykke Li
Music review: Like most things worth bothering about in life, Li Lykke Timotej Zahrisson (Lykke Li for short) is a bundle of seeming contradictions. Already being hyped in ominous proportions by the blogosphere, the 21-year-old Swede has produced an album full of some of the year's loveliest, most compelling sounds.
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We like it edgy: Becoming a music producer
Careers: We Like It Edgy is a music producer. It's a competitive industry but there are ways to survive and flourish, especially if you go above and beyond your training, buy cheap kit of eBay and know your remixes and mashups. Find out more about being a music producer.
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Love Is All... 9 times that same song
'Love Is All' are a bunch of skronky Swedes who somehow got missed in the day-glo rush of 2006. Can you have a band that sings about keeping your boyfriend in a freezer? Wouldn't it be wrong not to?
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Curve
Music reviews: What on earth were Curve, apart from one of the seminal underground bands of the 1990s? Were they shoegazing indie? Goth? Electronica? We're not quite sure!
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CSS
Music reviews: CSS and lead singer Lovefoxxx wear glitter catsuits on stage and are impossibly fun and sexy. And yet 'CSS' stands for the Brazilian for 'I got tired of being sexy'...
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Five Tips for Real Karaoke Survival
Music reviews: Play-nice karaoke was invented by the Japanese 20 years ago, but real karaoke can usually be found in a local pub. Get the very best out of your night on the karaoke mic.
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ShiSho
Music reviews: ShiSho are only about 10 years old but in the vein of Be Your Own Pet they've burst on the kidcore scene with Sufjan Stevens and The Dead Milkmen covers. Punk Rawk girls unite!
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Download The Chubbies
Music reviews: The Chubbies are a pop punk all-girl garage band who have their own record store and got kicked offstage when go-go dancing for The Offspring. Find out more...
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How to be a drummer grrl
How to guides: It's hard to understand why females are such a minority in the drum world. Bevin from The Valentinos tells you how to pick up the sticks and learn the fine art of drumming.
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Download Liz Phair
Music reviews: Liz Phair recently celebrated her 40th birthday in a Rolling Stone photoshoot under the heading "Hot M.I.L.F.". Now a grown-up Avril Lavigne (tailored to appeal to a commercial market) Liz Phair used to be just Lizzy from the Block. Check out the genius of her early days...)
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Download Bat for lashes
Music reviews: Everyone likes Bat for Lashes, especially intelligent blokes (you see throngs of them at Natasha Khan's live gigs videoing her thoughtfully). Taking influence from 70's film soundtracks, weather phenomena, childhood Halloween parties and a David Lynchian vision of suburbia, Bat for Lashes will take you on a very strange journey indeed...
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Download Jackie Levitt
Music reviews: Jackie Levitt is an unsigned Mookychick from NYC who does truth and ethereal yet funky vocals over addictive lo-fi urban dance beats. Her work is New York, but would fit in well with the slew of trip hop bands that came out of Bristol, UK, with its mixed-up bpms, slow beats, and evocative melodies...
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Download The Sounds
Music reviews: The Sounds are one of the latest imports from Sweden - they're kind of new wave with a touch of electro, and they've got a hard driving sound that's offset by melodies that will stick in your head longer than is healthy...
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Music reviews: Ladyland is a gutsy, punchy, powerful album that will have so many good songs you'll be playing one on repeat before you dare let yourself onto the next one...
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Music reviews: Probably the easiest way to describe the Colt 45s sound is 'obscure, fiesty electro punk' (The Crack Magazine), but their own term is clatter-pop...
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Download Vix n the Kix
Punk-pop burlesque at your service...
ViX used to be in a huge punkette British band and now she's assembled a new feisty bostin' outfit. If you like a bit of all-girl kitsch punk burlesque pop, this band deserves your love!
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Download The Mighty Roars
Rrrrraaaoowr! It's The Mighty Roars
Music reviews: Meet The Mighty Roars, a dirty twin sister to Debbie Harry and Karen O. It might be naughty, but it's probably the best thing we heard this week!
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