An Cafe

アンティック-珈琲店- (An Cafe) is an independent Japanese Oshare kei band formed in early June of 2003 signed to the LOOP ASH label.

Their music tends to be up-beat and poppish with a mixture of punk and even rock while their lyrical content - typical of Oshare kei fashion - consists of topics usually pertaining to love.

There is often controversy over how one should correctly display An Cafe’s name. While アンティック-珈琲店- translates as Antikku Kouhiiten and has appeared on releases and on their official site, their name has also been written as Antic Cafe and even as Antique Cafe. More recently though, the band itself has seemed to have taken to crediting themselves as An Cafe on releases.

アンティック-珈琲店- was formed when Miku, Bou and Kanon (all of whom hail from the Kantou region of Japan) met one another on an unnamed internet website while searching for other individuals with interests similar to their own. Since Miku’s previous band “Revirii” had been disbanded since April that year, Miku found Kanon and Bou through an advertisement on an Internet message board that was looking for a visual kei guitar player.