Capsule: the club pop duo’s first new song and music video in more than six years!
Capsule is back with a new more than six years after their latest release, 2015's excellent Wave Runner album! The duo of Yasutaka Nakata (lyrics, music) and Toshiko Koshijima (vocals)…
Dig deep into the history of the Kansai area hardcore punk scene with F.O.A.D. Records’ new book!
These last few years we've seen a wave of reissues digging up rare gems from the endless annals of Japan's vast and insane hardcore punk scene, but Italy's Records, one…
A Japanese noise & experimental Who’s Who by Ochiai Soup
While the music industry and live music in particular was hit especially hard by the pandemic, there are also some great things coming out of all this and one of…
Dubstep goodies from the second half of 2020, with the reissues and rarities from Goth-Trad and a lot of new releases!
Even though 2020 was very strange, still it was a quiet busy year for Japanese dubstep: there weren't many physical releases, but other than that a lot happened since my…
“Kids Still Want A New Acid” – a new remix EP from Crossfaith!
Crossfaith was always very fond of the EP format, they released many of those throughout the years and they just dropped another one yesterday! This one is a digital only…
New collab album from Boris & Merzbow, inspired by 2020.
The first collaboration between Boris and Merzbow called Megatone was released back in 2002 and ever since then they drop a new joint album every few years. The new one,…
New collab album and cassette releases from Viviankrist
Viviankrist is the name Eri Isaka (probably still better known as Vivian Slaughter, singer / bassist of black metal band Gallhammer) started to use for her solo releases after she…
FAKY returns with Little More, their third new track for this year
It seems that November is all about J-Pop girl groups as FAKY also returned with a new song around the same time as their friends and occasional collaborators FEMM. The…
A new single, music video and EP from the all new, all different FEMM!
As reported two weeks ago the pop duo FEMM recently returned with a long-awaited new music just to take it down a few days later along with all of their…
BananaLemon featured in new Sims 4 expansion pack trailer
Back in 2018 with the excellent Girls Gone Wild and Look At Me, Look At Me BananaLemon seemed to be building up to be a possible "next big thing", but then…