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Psychedelic rock first appeared in Japan in the mid to late 1960s. A few Group Sounds bands imitated their Anglo heros, including The Golden Cups , The Mops , The Dynamites and Jacks , whose "Karappo No Sekai" and "Marianne" were two of the first psychedelic recordings from the country.
Like in the UK and US, the psychedelic rock scene was linked to a political movement involving young, spirited students. An economic boom brought many young people to universities, where radical politics abounded. Central to this movement, arising from the late 60s Kyoto student revolts, was the band Les Rallizes Denudes and the Taj Mahal Travellers , followed by Lost Aaraaff .
In the 1970s, singer-songwriters like Kazuki Tomokawa and Kan Mikami became popular. As in the US and UK, Japanese rock spawned a folk-rock scene, there led by Magical Power Mako . At the same time, radical progressive rock was evolving, with distinctly Japanese bands like After Dinner and YB02 . Later still, Japanese alternative rock took the form of noisecore, a sound said to have been created by three bands, MerzbowMerzbow is the name used by Japanese musician Masami Akita (born 1956) for most of his experimental noise records. He has released an extensive catalog of CDs, LPs and cassettes since the early 1980s, and is seen as one of the most important noise musicia, Zeni Geva and The Boredoms.
Into the 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn, indie rockIndie rock a subgenre of rock music, is often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or who aren't on labels at all. In the 1980s, these bands were referred to as "alternative", since they were an alternative to mainstream rock and kitschy bands like Shonen KnifeThe all- female band Shonen Knife is a Japanese alternative rock trio that has found some success in the United States, counting among their fans Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Redd Kross. They cite as their main influences 1960s girl groups and punk rock., Cibo MattoIntroduction Cibo Matto is a New York City-based band whose lead singers are Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda. They have two full length albums: 1996's Viva! La Woman and 1999's Stereo Type A''. Other releases include Super Relax EP. Their music is a diverse mi, Fantastic Plastic Machine and Pizzicato FivePizzicato Five a Japanese pop group best known to American audiences in their later incarnation as a duo of Maki Nomiya and Yasuharu Konishi, are widely credited to have spearheaded the shibuya-kei movement of Tokyo in the 90s, along with Flipper's Guitar found mainstream audiences.