Sun Ra / Merzbow: Strange City – new (double) album!
Cold Spring, the UK based label, that also handles the Manchester date of the upcoming Merzbow tour (dates and info here) is coming out with another release from the God…
Macka-chin: Maririn Café Blue – new album and video from Tokyo’s master of laid-back hip-hop
Ever since he first showed up as a member of the now-disbanded Tokyo hip-hop crew Nitro Microphone Underground (that gave a lot of great MCs to Japan's hip-hop scene, including…
Experimental act Contagious Orgasm returns to Europe!
(photo is taken from the official Contagious Orgasm facebook page) Hiroshi Hashimoto's project Contagious Orgasm, which is active since 1987, has an extremely diverse output: while the early albums were…
Sugizo’s 20th anniversary, David Bowie cover and new releases!
Sugizo originally rose to fame as the guitarist and occasional violinist of '90s visual kei legend Luna Sea, and beside still being active in that reformed group, he is also…
How LDH and their acts are changing the face of JPop
In the HiGH&LOW review, I called that the best and most important JPop album of the year. The "best" part was explained there, but why is it oh-so-important? To understand…
HiGH&LOW – the JPop album of the year
It might sound like a rushed statement to call anything the "... of the year" while only seven months passed, but in this case, it is a pretty sure bet,…
[Mixology] DJ Kentaro’s Basscamp Returns Mix (+ EU dates!)
After the minimal techno / dub techno trip of the series' first part, now Mixology is back with something completely different: 30 minutes of bass heavy music from DJ Kentaro.…
Merzbow will return to the UK for four shows this Autumn
The God Of Noise, Merzbow will return to the UK for a couple of shows in late September / early October and all of them will be quite different. The…
Mad3 – the revival of the infamous surf rock band!
Mad3, that started somewhere in the early '90s was Japan's wildest (mostly) instrumental surf rock band until they decided to call it quits years ago, sometime after 2006's Lost Tokyo…
Hone Your Sense – new mini album out today!
Hone Your Sense, one of the most brutal bands from Japan's metalcore / deathcore scene is coming out with a new release today: the mini album, titled Phenomena features five…