{"id":36354,"date":"2014-09-25T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T20:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=36354"},"modified":"2014-09-25T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T20:45:05","slug":"justins-japan-j-rocktober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/25\/justins-japan-j-rocktober\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: J-Rocktober"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for\u00a0<\/strong>Shukan NY Seikatsu<\/a><\/strong>. Visit his Examiner.com Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This October is set to be a landmark month for New York City, as it welcomes to the stage some of the most celebrated Japanese musicians performing today.<\/p>\n

Things kick off on Oct. 5 with girl group Morning Musume \u201914<\/a> at the Best Buy Theater. The forerunner to today\u2019s mega-member pop acts like AKB48, Momusu has been spinning off hits since 1997, launching the career of songwriter-turned-record mogul Tsunku in the process.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 11, X Japan<\/a>, the country\u2019s best-selling rock band of all time, becomes the second Japanese act to headline Madison Square Garden, following L\u2019Arc~en~Ciel\u2019s historic debut<\/a> there two years ago. Led by the charismatic drummer (and classical pianist) Yoshiki<\/a>, X Japan has sold out the 55,000 seat Tokyo Dome a record-setting 18 times.<\/p>\n

The venerable Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra<\/a>, which has been on the scene since the late 1980s and has collaborated with artists as diverse as Puffy, Shiina Ringo and Shakira, plays Irving Plaza on Oct. 14. If it\u2019s cutting edge you crave, virtual idol superstar Hatsune Miku<\/a> makes her New York bow at Hammerstein Ballroom on Oct. 17-18 with a special concert featuring 3D projection technology and a live band.<\/p>\n

Seeking something heavier? Stadium act Maximum the Hormone<\/a>, which appeared at Ozzfest Japan last year alongside Black Sabbath, Slipknot and Tool, invades the Best Buy Theater Oct. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for\u00a0Shukan NY Seikatsu. Visit his Examiner.com Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. This October is set to be a landmark month for New York City, as it welcomes to the stage some of the most celebrated Japanese musicians performing today. Things kick off on Oct. 5 with girl group Morning Musume \u201914 at […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,53,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-events","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-9sm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36354","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=36354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36357,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36354\/revisions\/36357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}