KK Null drops Armageddon Sky and several more new releases
Noise legend KK Null started 2019 with a bang on his Bandcamp page: he set the year off with Abiogenesis on the 5th of January and uploaded nine more albums…
Osaka punk / crust band Zyanose is touring Europe… right now!
Oh damn, I noticed this way too late (and just one day late to catch the Vienna gig), but the extremely noisy and chaotic Osaka based crust punk act Zyanose…
Heavy psych group Hibushibire drops new album and goes on a UK tour
Hibushibire exploded into the psychedelic rock scene with its massive first album, Freak Out Orgasm! back in 2017 and now, two years later they are finally back with their follow-up,…
New album from Otoboke Beaver + UK tour dates!
Otoboke Beaver (one of the latest additions to Japan's long line of amazingly weird and wacky all-girl rock bands that gain international success) is back to the UK to do…
Acid Mothers Temple starts 2019 with five new releases!
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO never takes a break and after all those releases in 2018 (see some of them here, here and here) they started the…
The Yellow Monkey releases its first new album in 19 years!
Rock legends The Yellow Monkey stopped at the absolute peak of their career, back in 2001 playing their last show at the gigantic Tokyo Dome and they officially disbanded a…
New album from Shonen Knife + EU and UK tour!
It's been quite a while since pop punk legends Shonen Knife did a proper EU tour, but the girls are finally back and will be rocking Europe starting early May!…
Dubstep overdose: new releases from City1, 100mado, Dayzero and Karnage!
Since the latest post about the Japanese dubstep scene last November there were several new releases out and not only by Dayzero and Karnage, the scene's far more prolific producers,…
Hijokaidan is back with its 40th anniversary album + the DVD releases of two legendary live recordings!
Seminal noise act Hijokaidan had a simultaneous release back in March (on the 20th to be exact - so, yeah, I am a bit on the slow side reporting this…
Akiko Kiyama: Feuertanz – new EP from one of Japan’s best known female techno artists
Akiko Kiyama is back with a new 12" out on Tokyo's Gabriiela and the samples are already up on the label's Soundcloud page! After several more experimental releases (some under…