We are proud to tell you that after several months of hard work, we have successfully released the 7th version of the JaME website! At the same time, we are celebrating our 5th birthday.

Thank you very much for your support. We hope you'll enjoy it. More features (and bugs fixing) will come in the upcoming weeks, so keep an eye on JaME!

And don't forget: Music Has No Border!

http://www.jame-world.com

JaME is taking a sneak peek into Producing Nobuta and the limited musical unit, Shuuji to Akira, including detailed information on the history of Shuuji to Akira. This article is the second in a series of J-pop related articles. for more updates feel free to friend our journal!

http://www.jmusicamerica.com/us/article.php?id=7150

Also, feel free to join our public forum to chat about artists and to give feedback on articles read at JaME!

http://forum.amus-ent.com/

Hello all!

Various JaME teams are recruiting new team members, such as the Greek, Indonesian, Thai, Lithuanian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian and English teams. We are also looking for team members to help setting up new versions of JaME in your country.

Interested? Then please check out this article in order to find out how to apply.

One month ago CLJ Records released the indies visual kei compilation J-Visual[ism], featuring five lesser known bands: tarrot, PureQ&A, BRANCH, LiZ and Saruin. Now JaME and CLJ together continue in this intriguing underground spirit, as in partnership we present a poll to find the future stars of visual kei. The poll includes around 250 bands, who've not yet released any CDs in Europe. The voting results will be used as a guide to select the bands for the next volume of J-Visual[ism]. The poll can be found at www.jame-events.com/clj_poll/.

Besides choosing the bands, you also have the possibility to design the cover of the next compilation. For the contest details, please click here.

The Finnish JaME team is considering ways to make the concert queuing work more smoothly. The next gigs are coming up pretty soon, but there's still time to drop any suggestions to our blog post at http://blog.jame-suomi.com/2008/04/jonotuksen-kehittminen.html.

Also, naturally we've got plenty of hide in various articles & reviews at our site right now: http://www.jame-world.com/fi/.

As you might know, on May 2nd, its been 10 years since the musician hide passed away. In order to commemorate this, JaME has put together a hide memorial.

The memorial consists of a series of articles featuring comments from various artists (such as D'espairsRay, Nightmare, MUCC, 9GOATS BLACK OUT, lynch, and more) as well as a number of comments from industry professionals. Two of these articles have already been published, more will follow in the upcoming days. Next to that, you will also find another few articles about the guitarist on JaME.

You can view all the articles here.

Jrock Revolution (JRR) and Japanese Music Entertainment (JaME) announced today an unprecedented international ticket sale for the upcoming X JAPAN reunion concerts, "X JAPAN ATTACKS AGAIN 2008 I.V. ~Towards Destruction~", which will take place at the Tokyo Dome on March 28th and 30th.

JRR and JaME, which announced a strategic alliance February 8th, have secured a limited pool of international tickets for this event. The tickets will be sold through a lottery system from which ticket holders will be selected at random to complete the sale.
The lottery will begin on Monday, February 11th, 19:00 Paris Time (10:00AM PST/1:00PM EST) on JRR's and JaME's respective websites: jrockrevolution.com and jame-world.com.

More information about the lottery will be forthcoming later today at jrockrevolution.com and jame-world.com.

Currently the JaME weblog is doing a JaME question and answer session. Have you always been wondering about something related to JaME, but didn't dare to ask or was it too small to dedicate an email to? Here's your chance, so please comment on the weblog with your question!

JaME weblog

With the coming of the new year, various versions of JaME are recruiting again! The following teams are looking for new teammembers:

The American team is looking for writers, beta-readers, translators from French to English and people that can attend Jmusic-related events in the US. Read more...

The Norwegian team is looking for someone who can translate biographies, articles and who also can write reviews. Contact the team for further details.

The Swedish team is looking for anyone who can help out with translating the news, interviews and who can attend concerts and events for JaME. Send us an email for more details.

The Greek version, which is one of the newest versions of JaME, is also looking for team members. Contact the team know more about the tasks and other details.

Also the Italian team is looking for team members who can translate biographies and articles from English. Contact the team for further details.

All the teams are looking for translators from English to their language, NOT from Japanese!

The Finnish JaME team is announcing their blog, which will work tightly together with the actual JaME website. The team will be using their blog to take a look at concerts and related events in a more personal type of view and to present additional comments from prevailing artists.

http://blog.jame-suomi.com/