FEMM: Neon Twilight / Countdown – two new songs and videos from Japan’s strangest pop duo
FEMM, a duo that claims that they are "mannequins" is one of the most interesting things that showed up in Japan's pop music scene in the last few years and…
Mono: Requiem For Hell – new album and EU tour
Mono is one of those Japanese bands, that seem to be on a never-ending worldwide tour, only stopping once in a while to record a new album. And it is…
Napalm Death Is Dead / Space Grinder / 1000s Of Cats / Cunts @ DRRPNC, Budapest, 2016.07.07
When the wonderfully named Seven Dead Space Cunts tour came to Budapest, the promoters decided to add five local acts to the bill and name the event (quite fittingly) International…
6eyes: Table – new release from the indie rock band after a long break
The Nagoya based indie rock band 6eyes built up a pretty serious cult following with their first two albums (Pirate Music and Blank In Black), thanks to their wonderfully dissonant…
Kikagaku Moyo @ Arena Wien, 2016.06.30
The very young psychedelic rock group, Kikagaku Moyo's been becoming somewhat of an international sensation lately, due not only to their excellent albums, that are getting mostly rave reviews (especially…
An interview with Jun Konagaya of GRIM
This interview, which I believe is the first ever English one with Jun Konagaya, the man behind Grim and White Hospital, was conducted right after Grim's first appearance overseas, a…
GRIM + Linekraft @ Mannheim, 2016.06.17/18
Jun Konagaya's industrial solo project Grim and his previous band White Hospital (that he formed together with Tomo Kuwahara, who later started his own project, Vasilisk) were something of a…
Goth-Trad: Psionics – new album + exclusive tracks with Boris and Dälek!
Japan's dubstep pioneer Goth-Trad announced that he will be back with a new album, his first since 2012's New Epoch and while his previous one was released on UK's famous dubstep…
The last days of Girugamesh – an exclusive interview (2016.05.25)
When you do an interview with a band there are some usual, almost obligatory influences, songwriting, the band's history and future plans. Now, these were all left out in part…
Japan Vibe – an introduction
There are many sites out there that deal with Japanese music, however most of them only cover one or just a few genres or concentrate on a certain segment of…