The Coconut Boys’ (or CCB for short) is next in Ni-Ongaku Spotlight. For those who are into the current generation of J-Pop will get to check out the J-Pop artists in the 80s! The song “Romance ga Toremanai” was featured in the popular J-Dorama, Densha Otoko. CCB is a Japanese New Wave band with that [...]

For those who have yet to watch Fullmetal Alchemist have a reason to check it out. The next video in the Ni-Oangaku Spotlight series is “MELISSA” from Porno Graffiti. The song is the first opening theme to the anime, “Fullmetal Alchemist”. When I first heard this song, I had no idea it was a theme [...]

The next song in the Ni-Ongaku Spotlight series is さくら by the Japanese Pop-Reggae band,　ケツメイシ. It is one of my favorite songs from the group. I got into Ketsumeishi from a friend I met on an anime forum a few years ago. He sent me “夏の思い出“, which I fell in love with. Originally, I was [...]

In the latest Ni-Ongaku Spotlight, we take a look at this video of Shing02′s “Ultimate High”. Shing02 is a Japanese indie Hip-Hop artist. I discovered this artists on an acquaintance MySpace profile. It all started with the song, “miditation”. After hearing a few more of his songs, I bookmarked Shing02′s MySpace profile for updates on [...]

Here’s a very, very catchy song by the all-girl J-Pop group, Morning Musume, “Love MACHINE”. I first heard this song covered by SWEK, a band who performs songs from various Anime and Japanese groups, at Anime Central in 2005. From the sound of it, I thought it was a song from the Cowboy Bebop OST [...]