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 guys,…
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…
Band-Maid’s side-project Band-Maiko makes a surprise comeback with a new mini album and music video
Band-Maiko started out as all-girl rock group Band-Maid's side project last spring with a digital single called Secret Maiko Lips, which got its own music video as well, that ended…
Jupiter is back with a new album and is getting ready for a European tour in May!
Jupiter formed back in 2013 by four members of Versailles after the popular visual kei band went on hiatus, so initially many people wrote them off as not much more…
Stubborn Father releases its long-awaited first full album!
Stubborn Father, one of of the best bands to emerge from Japan's vast grindcore scene will finally release its first album this week. They are from Osaka and have been…