JROCK ONSEN - by JROCKNEWS.com

Join us for an exclusive interview with Jean-Ken Johnny from MAN WITH A MISSION as he talks about their hit "Kizuna no Kiseki" from Demon Slayer.

It’s no secret that the world is in quite a sorry state, since we are recovering from an otherwise unprecedented shutdown. There are a multitude of global issues here to make things worse. The real question, though, is how is this impacting your hobbies? Details of all our main stories: https://jrocknews.com/?p=147367 Intro music by うたたP(@tkomine) Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:04 How global chaos affects our hobbies 06:05 Do you know how much vegetable cost?! (tangent) 08:46 Jrock tour merch 15:24 Visa fees affecting Japanese band tours 28:04 Kaoru's (DIR EN GREY) hobbies also affected 29:57 Travel cost skyrocketing, and overseas tours 36:33 How we can "solve" this with technology 38:46 Someone throwing a shoe at SiM's concert 40:35 The irony of being a fan in Japan; concerts in Japan 50:30 Summarizing the situation

Anime and music are so closely linked that anime songs are their own category in Japan. It's impossible to ignore anime's staying power. 00:00 Intro 01:22 BanG Dream! - Ave Mujica 12:17 Nodame Cantabile, and everybody loves GACKT?! 20:43 Under Ninja/Bucchigiri?! - Kroi 22:26 Bocchi the Rock in real life! 28:05 K-ON is... meh 32:43 Visual Prison 33:45 Hypnosis Mic 36:42 Detroit Metal City (DMC) 42:26 Fukumenkei Noise (Anonymous Noise) 44:30 Guilty Crown - EGOIST 46:10 Macross 50:17 Catalyst and impact of music anime 56:17 SiM's older anime songs (Shingeki no Bahamut) 57:53 FZMZ and SiM (Shangri-La Frontier)

A lot more female ensembles have been popping up in the world of rock and metal. But why are we seeing this trend?

JROCK NEWS catches up with MAN WITH A MISSION's vocalist and guitarist Jean-Ken Johnny, looking back at their "WOLVES ON PARADE" tour. Full article: https://jrocknews.com/2023/09/interview-man-with-a-missions-jean-ken-johnny-talks-world-tour-wolves-on-parade.html

This time around, we are tackling the topic of how we go about discovering new music. Things have really changed since some of us first got involved with the scene. From friends’ and video recommendations to whatever Spotify throws at you. We all have our ways of finding new bands. Although there are often similarities, there are also some interesting quirks we all have.

This time we want to tackle how people transition from the more widely accepted western music into Japanese rock and more.

This time we are tackling the format wars. For this one, we'll be discussing and highlighting our opinions on digital and physical music media.

When is it that a band hits a point of consistency and finds its identity in the world of music. When does a band reach maturity? Details of all our main stories: https://jrocknews.com/?p=125298

The world is opening up. We're gonna talk about VIP so you can decide if it will be worth it now that you know everything can be ripped away. Details of all our main stories: https://jrocknews.com/?p=123828

We were lucky enough to snag an interview with BABYBEARD before the release of the debut single "Nippon Kara Konnichiwa". Full article: https://jrocknews.com/?p=122499

In conjunction with NANO's self-produced album "ANTHESIS", JROCK NEWS got together with NANO to speak about their past as an utaite, pre-debut, and the mysterious side of NANO. Full article: https://jrocknews.com/?p=122346

How can you get your friends, who usually aren't much into Japanese music, to become devout followers of Japanese music.

This time around we focused in on the relationship between anime and Jrock. Specifically, we looked at how anime has made you look into more or new Jrock bands.

Bands are putting on livestream performances now more than ever. What are the experiences like though? We each have some experience with them and we even have some experience with post-lockdown-in-person-lives.

Before any event nay, before leaving your domain, you always have to gear up and do some battle preparations. What do you wear to a show? Why do you feel this is necessary?

What kills a band? This isn't disbandment or anything like that, just a loss of interest.

We’re 20 years into the year 2000, we’re 20 episodes in and we are looking at how the scene has changed.

Well, here we are, stuck at home like everyone else. Won't stop us from getting in this sanitized bath though. This week we aim to tackle how to handle a canceled show. Have you had any shows canceled? I mean probably at this point.

We're here to whine about cameras at shows? What are your opinions? Mazo hates them, that's for sure. There are always exceptions though, rare or not.