Japanese music

The Influence of U2 on Japanese music

I'm a big U2 fan. As you know, U2 made a big hit of 'The Joshua Tree' in 1987 all around the world and espesially The Edge's guitar work influenced music scene including Japan so much. In the west, It was in the 21 the century that its inf…

Tanaka Soichiro talks about Fuji Rock Festival (2015.07.23)

Fuji Rock Histrory At first I'd like to ask about Fuji Rock of the first year in 1997. What were you doing then? It was the year I started Snoozer. The first issue of Snoozer was published in May of that year. But I couldn't go to Fuji Roc…

What have occurred to Japanese music scene from the mid-1990s to now.

The mid-1990s was the era when Japanese pop music was so mellow. The business category called "CD shop" was generalized nation-wide, enormous past masterpiece catalogs which had been difficult to get as analog records were reprinted togeth…