too lazy to sort into j-pop and j-rock but heres a few i listen to....
Bump of Chicken
seriously amazing stuff here ^__^ i love almost every one of their songs but my fave has to be Taiyou
Gackt
this guy is probably my fave artist. everything, and i mean everything, he sings is awesome. Faves are Last Song, Emu For My Dear, Black Stone and Storm
Mucc
another good one. Fave is Chain Ring
Buck Tick
kagerou (from xxxholic) is definitly the best
FictionJunction
See-Saw
Kelun (Chu-Bura and Ayasake Umbrella are good)
Kiyoharu
Hay!Say!Jump!
Sambomaster (all the ones he did for Bleach and Naruto are good)
Access (one of my fave songs EVER is Hitomi no Tsubasa)
Kinya (Blaze, It's and Glaring Dream)
Maaya Sakamoto
Utada Hikaru (I like Beautiful World the best)
Nightmare (The World and Alumina)
Plastic Tree (Replay)
Suga Shikao (every song... especially 19sai, nobody knows, yozora no mukou, hajimari no hi.....)
Seamo (Honey Honey is such a good song)
On/Off (the Vampire Knight openings are good)
UVERworld (D-technolife, Unknown Orchestra, Gekidou.... heck every song they do is good)
Sunset Swish (everything they did for Bleach)
SMAP (Yozora no Mukou... even though its better when Suga Shikao sings it)
Tegomass (the Lovely Complex ending..... OH and the songs they did for Neo Angelique Abyss)
Tommy Feburary6 (the best is definitly Lonley in Gorgeous)
Savage Genius (i like all songs ^_^ Maze is my fave though)
Orange Range (Asterisk)
The Stand Up
Kita Shuuhei (even though its impossible to find his songs online =(
Script (Baby Romantica)
Pigstar (Kimi=Hana)
Home Made Kazoku (all Bleach and Naruto songs)
High and Mighty Color (Ichirin no Hana)
L'arc En Ciel
Itou Kanako
Miyamoto Shunichi (all DN Angel songs. Byakuya and Michishirube being his best)
Abingdon Boys School
ºC-ute
Flow
Ali Project
YUI
Asian Kung-Fu Generation (After Dark and Haruka Kanata)
Stereopony
AAA
News (soo many of their songs are good)
Back-on (Butterfly is addicting i think =)
Nobodyknows+
SuG
Porno Graffitti (weird name, yes.... but they have AWESOME stuff! Koyoi, Tsuki Ga Miezutomo is amazing... every song they did for any anime is amazing)
Akeboshi (just heard of this guy... check out the stuff he did for Naruto)
NICO Touches the Walls (Broken Youth)
Chaba (Parade)
Aluto (Michi ~to you all~)
An Cafe (also known as antic cafe or antique cafe. Fave is "kakusei heroism ~the hero without a name~")
yay for anime =) otherwise i wouldn't know most of these artists
Also what about songs done by seiyuu? like Namikawa Daisuke, Shinichiro Miki and Daisuke Ono
And do artists that do mostly/only instrumentals count? like Yuki Kajiura, Joe Hisaishi, and Nobuo Uematsu
as for other asian music theres Super junior, BoA and jay chou that i know about.... i like never listen to c-pop or k-pop though @__@
finally you guys order the cds from japan? o.0 wouldn't that be crazy expensive? i get all of mine off sites like 4shared.com (so useful for downloading full albums at once), gendou.com and aimini.net
oh and japanesemusicdream.wordpress.com (which you can also download full albums from)
I'm not a shadow in this world where even shadows melt away (Taiyou, Bump of Chicken)
