Live ReportsLovebites @ Analog Music Hall, Budapest, 2026.07.23.
Japan has an unprecedented number of all-girl rock bands and this trend is especially obvious when we dig into the local metal scene, where, by now, all-female metal bands basically…
Interviews“Good Vibes Only” – an interview with EMNW
Mixture rock is a huge thing in Japan with bands taking cues from a wide range of genres, blending them and coming up with something fresh, something they can rightfully…
Interviews“We live in the moment” – an interview with Jellow Glow
Jellow Glow is a pretty young indie band that went viral on social media due to their Shibuya clean-up project, their English language posts and them mostly focusing on foreigners staying…
Live ReportsEMNW, Jellow Glow, Mighty Hope, Redmarker @ Kyoto Gattaca, 2026.05.21.
This post is a part of a series of live galleries from the trip to Japan in May / June, 2026. After the previous, Tokyo-centered visits, this trip's first week was…
ReviewsEMNW: EMNW
The heydays of nu-metal and rap rock are long gone, we all know that. And actually, Japan never really had a scene on its own to begin with, as even…