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on Dec 13, 2012 in: Uncategorized
Reblogged from LArcMNL: Get set for what could be this year’s biggest online gathering of L’Arc~en~Ciel fans all over the world! Presented in cooperation with L’Arc~en~Ciel Canada, L’Arcboy04 and The Sketchbook Journal of larc...
on Jul 1, 2012 in: live report, AMUSE, jrock, one ok rock, OOR, Orchard Road, reviews, Ryota, Singapore, Taka, Tomoya, Toru, Warehouse
Either it was really fate or we were just really BLESSED (yes, the L’Arc fan in me just cannot resist making those song references XD) Sat and I arrived at the*SCAPE in Singapore gawking at the VIP line and wondering where the heck the line for the...
on Mar 5, 2012 in: live report, Asia World Expo, hong kong, HYDE, jrock, Ken, laruku, live, tetsu, TETSUYA, world tour, yuki, yukihiro
FROM HOSPITAL TO HONG KONG: L’ADVENTURE DAY 1 Armed with my doctors’ clearance and sheer determination, I made it to Hong Kong around 9:30 in the morning, a day before the concert. I actually didn’t think I could make it considering that I just...
on Jun 15, 2011 in: grapevine, reflections, Despa, disbandment, hiatus, HIZUMI, jrock, Karyu, TSUKASA, ZERO
Today I remember how in 2008 I was in desperate need to satiate my jrock fix. My favorite band L’Arc~en~Ciel has just announced their hiatus and I needed a new band to fill in the void. While scouring the jrock section of the Ongaku Society forums,...
on Apr 10, 2011 in: reflections, blogging, jpop, jrock, music, music criticism, reviews, visual kei
Three years ago today, I wrote my very first post about music on SOLILOQUY. But no, today is not SOLILOQUY’s 3rd anniversary. 2009 doesn’t really count given that I only wrote 2 measly articles that year. What I want to celebrate today instead is...
on Apr 10, 2011 in: grapevine, reflections, Death Note, DELUHI, disbandment, girugamesh, hiatus, jrock, visual kei
With the slew of announcements regarding this or that jrock band’s dissolution bombarding our newsfeeds last year, it’s not hard to imagine that perhaps someone somewhere was relentlessly listing the names of jrock bands on a mysterious notebook...
on Apr 3, 2011 in: random musings, reflections, Alice Nine, Asian Kung-fu Generation, Dir en Grey, girugamesh, jpop, jrock, Ongaku Society, Siam Shade, visual kei
Music has been an integral part of my life for as long as I can remember. High school was a breeze because of top40 hits. Then as I got older, my taste became, shall I say it, more refined. I survived all-nighters in college with my eyes on the compu...
