{"id":19668,"date":"2011-05-31T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=19668"},"modified":"2011-06-07T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:25:58","slug":"justins-japan-loudness-akiko-yano-perform-rare-concerts-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/31\/justins-japan-loudness-akiko-yano-perform-rare-concerts-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Loudness, Akiko Yano Perform Rare Concerts in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legendary Japanese metal band Loudness return to Times Square's B.B. King Blues Club & Grill June 1.<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/em> <\/strong>JQ magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u2019s <\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/a><\/em> (CIR Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page <\/em>here<\/a> <\/em>to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After their successful tour of Europe last year capped with a headlining gig at Germany\u2019s prestigious Bang Your Head!!! festival, Japan\u2019s Loudness<\/a> are invading North America for the first time since their sold out 2006 tour, and only the second time since 1991!<\/p>\n

Formed in 1981 in Osaka, vocalist Minoru Niihara, guitarist Akira Takasaki (A.K.A. the Eddie Van Halen of Japan), bassist Masayoshi Yamashita and drummer Munetaka Higuchi joined forces to become not only Japan\u2019s premier metal band, but a world class act in their own right, releasing five English-language albums in America in their heyday.<\/p>\n

On June 1, the group storms Times Square’s\u00a0B.B. King Blues Club and Grill<\/a>, where they last played five years ago in a historic gig filmed for their Loudness in America 06<\/a><\/em> DVD. (The disc doubles as an epitaph for Higuchi, who succumbed to liver cancer two years later. He was replaced in 2009 by Masayuki Suzuki.)<\/p>\n

Metal not your cup of cha? On June 3, Japan Society<\/a> presents Akiko Yano Solo: Revealing Her Magic<\/a><\/em>. This one-night-only appearance is billed as a concert and talk, exploring renowned singer-songwriter Akiko Yano<\/a>‘s original music, as influenced and inspired by the unique rhythm and intonation of the Japanese language. In this performance, Yano demonstrates how she bends prose, phrases and salutations into her own musical expressions.<\/p>\n

Read Justin’s review of Loudness’ previous concert in the spring 2006 JETAANY newsletter here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

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By JQ magazine\u2019s Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. After their successful tour of Europe last year capped with a headlining gig at Germany\u2019s prestigious Bang Your Head!!! festival, Japan\u2019s Loudness are invading North America for the first time since their sold out 2006 tour, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-57e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19668"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19860,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions\/19860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}