I’ve been listening to Japanese music seriously since 1997 or so. Over those years, I’ve found a lot of great bands that I can listen to over and over again. Here are a few:
- The Blue Hearts
- Going Steady/Ging Nang Boyz
- Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
- The Cherry Coke$
- Softball/Akiakane
- Ping Pong Dash!!/Revelers United
- HUB
- Skalapper
- Ska Freaks
- Last Target
- Junior
- Perfume
- The Rich
- NewRoteka
- Guru-Guru
- Halcali
- Backward Region
- with many more to come.