KK. Null & Balazs Pandi: upcoming album and EU tour!
After his recent tours with Merzbow and Keijo Haino, Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi will travel around Europe with yet another Japanese noise legend, KK. Null. By far the longest of…
Tokyo 2016 #1: Tokyo Pop with FEMM, Lisachris and more @ Kawaii Monster Cafe, 2016.09.02
Tokyo 2016 is a 13 part series of photo & live reports from September, 2016, documenting a deep dive into the city's various underground music scenes. When I finally returned…
Charisma.com goes Pop Art!
In the previous news post about them, I was already going on about how is the probably the strangest JPop duo out there nowadays (well, OK, besides FEMM), with extremely…
SA: WAO!!!! – new album and video from the punk veterans
So, I mentioned in the post about Razors Edge, that there are a lot of old, still active punk rock bands in Japan and SA formed even earlier than Kenji Razors'…
Razors Edge releases anniversary Best of with… 44 tracks!
Japan's punk scene is huge, with countless bands (and so many good ones!) and while there are many, many new groups that come and go, there are also several big…
Legendary rock group The Yellow Monkey is back with its first new single since their reunion!
Let's start this with a short history lesson: One of the most successful Japanese rock acts of the '90s was the group called The Yellow Monkey, that played a mixture…
Babymetal gets its own US animated series!
When (just after the RHCP news) you thought that Babymetal really can not surprise you with anything even more unexpected in their journey towards World domination comes the announcement from…
New album from Crystal Lake in November!
Crystal Lake, one of Japan's longest running metalcore bands (they formed back in 2002!) will release its forth full length album at the end of November. The release date ()…
Boom Boom Satellites – R.I.P. Michiyuki Kawashima
It was announced earlier today by Boom Boom Satellites' staff, that the duo's singer and guitarist Michiyuki Kawashima passed away after his years-long struggle with brain tumor. After going through…
Guitar Wolf’s EU tour starts… today!
Guitar Wolf, Japan's best known (and by far noisiest) garage rock band is back in Europe at long last! They released their latest album, their 12th altogether back in May,…