Song Mix Sundays #2: Nihon no Ongaku
August 1st, 2010 § Leave a Comment
I first discovered Japanese pop/rock in high school when I downloaded an mp3 of Ayumi Hamasaki’s “Forgiveness” from a random music blog. I turned into a Japanophile and never looked back – I started watching anime, I studied the language for 3 semesters in college, and I built a rather impressive personal catalogue of J-pop and J-rock.
While a lot of J-pop sounds as bland as mainstream US radio, there are certian artists that stand out with a unique style, even some of the Western mainstream copy-cat ones. These are 10 of my favorite artists and songs from Japan that I think every music fan should check out:
