Coldrain returns to Europe this autumn!
This will be a very busy year for the European fans of Japanese metalcore acts: Crossfaith will be in Europe twice, first in June, then in Sept / Oct, Crystal…
Crossfaith announces another EU tour, their first European headliner tour in years!
There are still a couple of weeks till Crossfaith's summer European tour will start,but they already announced another tour for this autumn! But while their summer tour will mostly consist…
EU dates for noise legend Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro / C.C.C.C.) in June!
Hiroshi Hasegawa, best known as a member of seminal noise acts and Astro will play a couple of shows in Europe during June covering three countries: Austria, Slovenia and the…
Zombie-Chang gathers a support band and releases her 3rd album
A bit more than a year after Gang!, her second album and her first under her current label Zombie-Chang (aka. Meirin Yung) will return with a new full and with…
Introducing GLOSS, a new underground girl group
It seems that the J-Pop girl group revolution, that's been going on in the Japanese music industry these last couple of years is (fortunately) far from being over, and now,…
A classic live recording from Government Alpha from 2004
A few days ago US label Sounds from the Corridor uploaded a real rarity from Yasutoshi Yoshida's noise project Government Alpha: a live set that was recorded back in 2004 when…
Merzbow’s legendary Pulse Demon finally gets a vinyl reissue… and sells out immediately
Pulse Demon is clearly one of the best known releases by Merzbow and also, while it might not rank amongst his best material, it is clearly one of the most…
Grooveman Spot returns to his hip-hop roots again with Resynthesis (Green)
Grooveman Spot is one of the key players of Tokyo's renowned hip-hop label Jazzy Sport and he has an extremely diverse back catalogue: his classic Eternal Development from 2006 was…
Tsushimamire featured in Kids N Cats’ song about Japan!
The friendship between Tsushimamire and Kids N Cats goes back a few year: as described by Mari in our interview, it all started when the Austrian duo emailed them in…
New split 7″ from Minami Deutsch out on God Unknown
God Unknown Records is a UK label known mostly for its exclusive psychedelic rock / krautrock 7" split releases. They already worked with several Japanese acts before, such as Acid Mothers…