Winter 08

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Features

Cover: Versailles
Boris
Melt Banana
Ellegarden
V Section (featuring SuG, Guy's Family, Oz)
Anti-Feminism x Hagakure
Japan Girl's Nite (Falsies on Heat, GitoGito Hustler)

Special: Which Band is Right for Me? A Choose Your Adventure.

DEPARTMENTS

Our Penpal: Sugizo
Industry: Kevin Lyman (Taste of Chaos), Jonathan Platt (Jrock Revolution)
Love Buzz: Angelic Pretty, The American Gothic and Lolita Bible
Tied-in: The Wallflower
Part IV of Peelander-Z is Fun
Live Reports: Kiyoharu, Balzac + more
Reviews: Kagrra, Fuji Fabric, Bump of Chicken, Girugamesh, 12012, Alice Nine, B'z + more

Fall 07

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Contents:

The Captains
12012
SID
SADIE
Mix Speaker's, Inc.
Plastic Tree
Ayabie
Acid Black Cherry
Back-On
Anna Tsuchiya
LM.C
Thee Out Mods
Radar: Featuring Speed Disk Records (LiZ, Wizard, D=OUT, Unsraw, Pure Q&A, more)
Love Buzz: Cosplay Chameleon
Tied-in: Sakuran
Part III of Peelander-Z is Fun
NEW! Billy's Choice: Billy Goss likes lists. His picks for 10 standout album covers.

Live Reports: Plastic Tree 10th Anniversary live ZERO, Fuji Fabric, The Captains, Sadie, Ayabie, The Birthday, 12012

Reviews: GO!GO!7188 (with track-by-track album commentary by the band!), Rentrer en Soi, Tokyo Jihen, The Birthday, The Captains, Buck-Tick, Cocco, Plastic Tree, Kirito, Wrench, Gackt

Summer 07

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Contents:

Miyavi
High and Mighty Color
Balzac
Jrock Revolution (Alice nine, D'espairsRay, girugamesh, Kagrra,, Merry, MUCC)
Girls and Guitars (Maki of High and Mighty Color, Bleach03, Midori)
ketchup mania
Radio Caroline
Swinging Popsicle
The Candy Spooky Theater
Barebones
Radar: the brilliant green, L'Arc~en~Ciel
Industry: Benten Records
Love Buzz: Balzac and the Little Toymaker
Tied-In: Bleach
Live Reports: Jrock Revolution (featuring Kagrra,, DuelJewel, Miyavi, Vidoll, alice nine., Merry, girugamesh, D’espairsRay, MUCC), Balzac, High and Mighty Color, Core Time Vol. 3 (feat. Bleach03, Electric Eel Shock, Shukugawa Brothers, High Voltage), Tokyo Jet Night Vol. 4 (feat. Spike, Midori, Guitar Wolf, Sheena & The Rockets), Swinging Popsicle
CD Reviews: The GazettE, Oreskaband, MUCC, Beat Crusaders, Tama, Swinging Popsicle, The 50Kaitenz, Love Psychedelico, High Voltage, BLOOD, LiN Clover, Fresh Cuts from Japan, Like Uncolored Velvet

Spring 07

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Contents:

Cover: LM.C interview
Japan Nite (GO!GO!7188, The Emeralds, Pistol Valve, Oreskaband, mothercoat)
The Back Horn
Janne Da Arc
Kirito / Angelo
LiN CLOVER
Penpals: kra
Industry: Frantz + Ten Questions with J
Love Buzz: Ball Jointed Dolls
Tied-In: Death Note
Live Reports: Japan Nite (featuring GO!GO!7188, The Emerads, HY, Pistol Valve, Asakusa Jinta, and The 50 Kaitenz), Dir en grey, Independence D (featuring 12012, Girugamesh, D'espairsRay, Balzac, Plastic Tree, Merry), TRIP IN HARDCORE (featuring Midnight Bankrobbers, Nihon Noen, Genbaku Onanies, Barebones)
Reviews: the pillows, D'espairsRay, The Back Horn, Grapevine, Nightmare, Kishidan, LM.C, Kannivalism, Shiina Ringo, Penicillin, Dir en grey, Art-School, Kra, Last Alliance, Mr. Children, J, Angelo, Anna Tsuchiya, Olivia, Tommy heavenly6, The Birthday, Midnight Bankrobbers, High and Mighty Color, Rouage, Kirito, D, L'Arc~en~ciel
Full DISClosure: Judy and Mary

Winter 07

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Contents:

Cover: KISAKI interview
Olivia interview + artwork
The Can't Miss List
Jrock Connection (Artbeat, Karma Shenjing)
Pacific Media Expo (Olivia, Uchuu Sentai Noiz, Dig Jelly)
Novala Takemoto interview
Tofu Records Interview
NANA
Zetsubometer III: Kagerou
Live: Phantasmagoria, Alice Nine, Asai Kenichi, Peelander-Z, Guy's Family
Reviews: Kagrra,, Olivia, MUCC, Hyde, Kishidan, B'z, Nana starring Nakashima Mika, Vidoll, An Café, 12012 and more...

Fall 06

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Contents:

Meet MUCC

Iconoclasm: Twenty Years of Buck-Tick

Penpals: Plastic Tree

Chat with BLOOD's Kiwamu

Otakon 2006 Yoshiki Panel

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad

Visual essay: PEELANDER-Z

Live Reports: MUCC, Cocco, Dir en grey at Family Values, Indie Spotlight

Disc Reviews: Cocco, Kiyoharu, Creature Creature, Mongol 800, Bleach 03, Plastic Tree, Sparta Locals, Merry, B'z, HYDE, Bonnie Pink, Jude, Psycho le Cemu, Tokyo Jihen, Gazette, Gackt, Luna Sea

+ more

Summer 06

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Contents:

INTERVIEW: KIRITO

SXSW COVERAGE: ELLEGARDEN; Dir en grey, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re & more

Otaku Unite!s Eric Bressler

LIVE REVIEWS: Dir en grey, Despairs Ray, Irokui

Lets Speak Jrock! II

Zetsubometer!

REVIEWS: Gazette-nil; 12012-Play Dolls; not obtain +1; Mucc-Houyoku; Sex Machineguns-Made in USA; the pillows-My Foot; Tokyo Jihen-Adult, SeikimaII-WORST!