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…
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…
Acid Mothers Temple’s recent releases and their upcoming Europe tour dates!
It's been known for a while that AMT's main group, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso will appear at the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia (alongside Kikagaku Moyo and…
TsuShiMaMiRe goes to Vladivostok’s V-ROX Festival for a headline show! [Cancelled]
TsuShiMaMiRe, the all girl punkish alternative rock group will be going to Russia to be one of the headliner acts at Vladivostock's V-ROX Festival! They've been around since '99 without…
Jintana & Emeralds delivers yet another dose of dreamy, Hawaiian exotica with Mirage
Jintana & Emeralds plays '50s inspired dreamy music, that takes us right back to the heydays of Exotica, with its tropical, Hawaiian flavor and steel guitar sound. The band, featuring…