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…
LAZYgunsBRISKY @ Mondocon, Budapest, 2018.10.20
One of the last shows during LAZYgunsBRISKY's recent European tour took place in Budapest (and was organized by me actually) at the local anime / pop-cult convention called Mondocon and…
LAZYgunsBRISKY is finally back in Europe!
All girl rock band LAZYgunsBRISKY will be back in Europe with a tour starting this Thursday! They will have both festival and club gigs in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and…
Tsushimamire featured in Kids N Cats’ song about Japan!
The friendship between Tsushimamire and Kids N Cats goes back a few year: as described by Mari in our interview, it all started when the Austrian duo emailed them in…
TsuShiMaMiRe @ Dürer Kert, Budapest, 2017.05.16
When I saw TsuShiMaMiRe's excellent show in Tokyo last September, I had absolutely no idea that in just a bit more than half a year I will be working with…
TsuShiMaMiRe returns to Europe in May / June!
After several successful US tours, punkish girly rock group TsuShiMaMiRe had its first ever European tour last year, which was mostly centered around and now they will be back for…
Tokyo 2016 #8: TsuShiMaMiRe, Kinoco Hotel, Kids N Cats (AT) @ Fever, 2016.09.12
Tokyo 2016 is a 13 part series of photo & live reports from September, 2016, documenting a deep dive into the city's various underground music scenes. A week after the…
Droog: Monochrome – punk rock, new mini album and major re-debut!
Droog, formed by four childhood friends from Oita Prefecture's Beppu city has a new mini album out this week and it is their return to the world of major labels.…
Guitar Wolf’s EU tour starts… today!
Guitar Wolf, Japan's best known (and by far noisiest) garage rock band is back in Europe at long last! They released their latest album, their 12th altogether back in May,…
TsuShiMaMiRe announces European tour dates!
As the band's leader, Mari already mentioned in our recent interview, at the end of this year, indie / altern rock / art punk band TsuShiMaMiRe will be going on a…