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Keikaku.net now has a Twitter!

http://twitter.com/keikakuDOTnet

For information on independent and overlooked Japanese bands. In English.

Follow us as we'll be posting up music news, site updates and more.

This will be useful for people who enjoy (or are looking to enjoy) artists such as:

The Pillows
Guitar Wolf
Rovo
Couch
Hi-Standard
Boom Boom Satellites
Cocco
Polysics
HUSKING BEE
Guitar Vader
fra-foa
Eastern Youth
NUMBER GIRL
bloodthirsty butchers
Bugy Craxone
HeavensDust
BLANKEY JET CITY
IT
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
Swinging Popsicle
Aphasia
ACIDMAN
Vinyl
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
Syrup16g
SUPER BUTTER DOG
10-FEET
noodles
Gorilla Attack
LOST IN TIME
Shachi
asana
Garlic Boys
Condor44
THE BACK HORN
PE'Z
DMBQ
Scoobie Do
SPARTA LOCALS
Qypthone
The Babys
Clams
Port Of Notes
bonobos
detroit7
The Acoustics
くるり
The Band Apart
The Emeralds
曽我部恵一
中村一義
ANATAKIKOU
The Local Art
Zazen Boys
Spandecks
TOMOVSKY
Plectrum
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Voting is now over, but you can still join The Japanese Rock Artists League and take part in Season 3!

9GOATS BLACK OUT
9mm Parabellum Bullet
abingdon boys school
ACIDMAN
ART-SCHOOL
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
Aqua Timez
The Band Apart
Base Ball Bear
BEAT CRUSADERS
Boredoms
Boris
BUMP OF CHICKEN
CORNELIUS
DéspairsRay
DIR EN GREY
ELLEGARDEN
flumpool
ガゼット (the GazettE)
銀杏BOYZ
ギルガメッシュ (girugamesh)
GO!GO!7188
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Hyde
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Loudness
LUNA SEA
lynch.
MALICE MIZER
Maximum the Hormone
Melt-Banana
雅-MIYAVI-
Mono
ムック (MUCC)
NUMBER GIRL
ONE OK ROCK
The Pillows
Plastic Tree
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box
Polysics
サディ (Sadie)
SCREW
SPARTA LOCALS
ストレイテナー (Straightener)
Supercar
Syrup16g
té
THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT
UVERworld
Versailles
VOLA & THE ORIENTAL MACHINE
World's End Girlfriend
X JAPAN
Zazen Boys
Abigail
Acid Black Cherry
彩冷える (Ayabie)
THE BACK HORN
THE BAWDIES
The Birthday
Blood Stain Child
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http://lastfm.net76.net/show_png_chart.php?user=cloverbell


Where do Jews come from?
I really can't tell you hun, but what I can tell you are where my top artists come from! 9 out of 10 guesses you probably already know that I listen to a lot of Japanese crap! Guilty pleasure but I won't turn it down.

What you didn't know is that I also listen to a lot of Canadian junk by 14.8%. See? I do take a lot of pride in my nationality, so... don't even go there. >:O
All those "bad sounding" basement bands are actually good. You know it to be true!

9.1% of what I listen to is very British. Oi!
Third place is is French kicking ass at 4.6%.
Next is America...goaling in at 3.8%.
At a modest yet subtle roar 2.4% is our Nordic Pals. Shalom, Norway, Shalom!~
Korea marches in along side with the Vikings at a 2.1% outcome.
Iceland scores a total of 1.7% as I've been only listening to Sigur Ros, Sugarcubes, Bjork and Silvia Night (Silvia Nott).
…

I would like to get to know more people around my age who share my same passion for Suneohair and Plastic Tree (expecially old Plastic Tree...

Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php

My recommendations are ART-SCHOOL BEAT CRUSADERS Base Ball Bear Beck Belle and Sebastian Bright Eyes Broken Social Scene Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Death Cab for Cutie Do As Infinity DOPING PANDA GOING UNDER GROUND HUSKING BEE Interpol JUDY AND MARY L'Arc~en~Ciel LUNKHEAD Mates of State Metric Modest Mouse Mr.Children NUMBER GIRL Neutral Milk Hotel ORANGE RANGE Rilo Kiley Spoon THE BACK HORN Tegan and Sara The Arcade Fire The Band Apart The Decemberists The Fiery Furnaces The New Pornographers The Shins Tommy heavenly6 Yo La Tengo noodles of Montreal the brilliant green くるり サンボマスター ストレイテナー スネオヘアー…

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

01. DIR EN GREY
02. 嵐
03. Ninomiya Kazunari
04. 蜉蝣
05. LUNA SEA
06. The Beatles
07. ムック
08. Maximum the Hormone
09. the GazettE
10. スピッツ
11. Plastic Tree
12. Syrup16g
13. 동방신기
14. DéspairsRay
15. Sid
16. X JAPAN
17. GACKT
18. Mr.Children
19. serial TV drama
20. FAKE?



01. ガゼット
02. MIYAVI
03. MALICE MIZER
04. 12012
05. News
06. KAT-TUN
07. タッキー＆翼
08. 関ジャニ∞
09. 山下智久
10. KinKi Kids
11. V6
12. w-inds.
13. Sakurai Sho
14. Aiba Masaki
15. Ohno Satoshi
16. Matsumoto Jun
17. Sho Sakurai
18. 二宮和也
19. 櫻井翔
20. RENTRER EN SOI
21. Kagrra,
22. MERRY
23. Deadman
24. hide
25. Pierrot
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(Oh, it's been so long since i wrote here the last time :P)

1. How did you get into 31? (AI)
A friend of mine listened to her song 'Story' and she didn't like it. I asked her to let me listen to it too and at the opposite I really loved that song. So I started searching for AI's works ^^

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (THE BACK HORN)
I'm not really sure.. but I think it was レクイエム (Requiem).

3. What's your favourite lyric by 29? (SS501)
I have no idea XD I like 'Snow Prince' lyrics.

4. What is your favourite album by 49? (Plastic Tree)
I think シャンデリア (Chandelier) even if the last album (ネガとポジ - nega to poji) is so good too!!

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (No'where)
All the 3 singles. I need to buy the album yet >_< I hope to find it in Tokyo.

6. What is your favourite song by 50? (sifow)
CLOVER

7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad? (スキマスイッチ)
Yes, a lot, expecially 奏（かなで）(kanade) and ボクノート (boku note)

8. What is your favourite song by 15? (UVERworld)
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