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Chika-idol (underground idol)
Chika-idol (地下アイドル), also called live idol or indie idol, is the Japanese subscene of independent idol groups performing mainly in small live houses rather than on television, centered on Tokyo districts like Akihabara.
Group Sounds
Group Sounds (グループ・サウンズ), abbreviated GS, is the Japanese boom of four-to-six-member electric-guitar bands that dominated the domestic music scene from 1967 to 1969, led by groups like the Tigers and the Spiders.
Idol pop (music genre)
Idol pop is a style of Japanese popular music organized around performers called idols and their interaction with fans, exemplified by AKB48 and its sister groups.
J-hip-hop
J-hip-hop, also known as Nihongo rap (日本語ラップ) or J-rap, is the Japanese hip-hop scene, rooted in Tokyo street culture after 1983 and a chart-leading part of Japanese popular music by the 2010s.
J-rock
J-rock (日本のロック) is the umbrella term for rock music made in Japan, a broad industry label spanning pop rock, punk, metal, and alternative scenes rather than one sound.
Melodic hardcore (Japanese)
Melodic hardcore (Japanese), known in Japan as メロコア (merokoa), is a punk subscene that took shape around Hi-STANDARD in the 1990s and boomed in the late 1990s.