Online streams this weekend by three young rock bands straight from Tokyo!
This whole covid crisis is turning pretty much everything upside down and it hit the live music scene especially hard. Musicians however try to adapt to the situation creatively, which…
NO, a new album from Boris out later this week!
Later this week Boris will release a new full-lenght titled NO: out on the 3rd of July, the album will contain eleven tracks, including a cover of Fundamental Error by…
New Linekraft album out on SSSM
In just a few years Masahiko Okubo's Linekraft became one of the best known and busiest Japanese noise / industrial / power electronics acts and obviously there is no stopping:…
Several new dubstep releases + an international tribute to Naoki DSZ
Almost six months passed since the last time we checked what's up in Japan's deep dubstep scene, so it is time to look around especially as there were several great…
Two new beat tapes from Grooveman Spot!
A Japanese boom bap label, the Okinawa based Honey Records just released two digital exclusive beat tapes from the mighty Grooveman Spot yesterday. Titled Lost Beat Tape -Pianoman- vol.1 and…
New split cassette from Government Alpha!
Recently Government Alpha, Yoshida Yasutoshi's prolific noise project teamed up with Portuguese noise artist Ogata Tetsuo for a split cassette: the untitled tape is out on Slovenian label Debila Records,…
GRIM’s new 12″ Hermit Amen collects unreleased rarities from the last four decades
Following the recent news about the upcoming European dates, GRIM also announced an upcoming release: Hermit Amen, which marks his return to Austrian label Steinklang Industries. Coming out mid-June it…
New album and music video from experimental rock band downy
Last month experimental rock band downy released its latest, overall seventh album, which, as all the previous ones, is simply called "無題", which means untitled. They already dropped an album…
Linekraft: a 2 CD reissue + two EU festival dates!
In the post about Grim a few days ago I already mentioned the upcoming live performances by Linekraft, because Masahiko Okubo aka. Linekraft will join Grim on stage both at…
The reissue of OXZ’s discography helps us to rediscovering forgotten parts of Japan’s underground music history.
In recent years (fortunately) there were a lot of reissues of either forgotten or, on the contrary, heavily sought after Japanese releases from the '80s and one of the latest…