Mighty Crown’s new album and video celebrates the dancehall crew’s 25th anniversary
The 20th of July marked the long awaited return and new album of Yokohama's World famous dancehall & reggae crew, Mighty Crown, which was to coincide with their 25th and…
Maki Nomiya’s new album revisits Pizzicato Five and the French roots of Shibuya-kei!
Even though Pizzicato Five, the Shibuya-kei group that built up a very serious international following in the '90s is long gone (they disbanded in 2001), their legacy still lives on.…
Merzbow goes tribal for new album, Hatobana!
I am absolutely not planning to write about each and every new Merzbow release, but the new announcement, if possible, sounds even more exciting than the Sun Ra rework one…
Babymetal to support… the Red Hot Chili Peppers in UK!?
When, after their solo show at Wembley Arena earlier this year, you thought that the Babymetal phenomenon can not get any more they announced that in December they will be…
Keiji Haino + Balázs Pándi in Europe this October!
Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi's been working with the biggest names of the Japanese noise / experimental music scene for years: he released several albums with Merzbow, he toured with KK.…
The fin. to play at Lithuania’s Loftas Fest
The fin., haling from Kobe, just announced that they will play at Loftas Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania. The festival takes place on the 2nd and 3rd of September, with them…
Minami Deutsch: EU tour and new single from the krautrock group
Krautrock group Minami Deutsch is one of the three Japanese bands that will play at this year's Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia along with Acid Mothers Temple and Kikagaku Moyo…
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…