Crazyboy: NeoTokyo EP – hip-hop for the dance floors from JSB’s Elly!
Last year I wrote a double feature about LDH, that included a review about the excellent HiGH&LOW compilation and described the agency's role in changing the face of JPop during…
Tokyo 2016 #7: Unofficial with Budamunk, 16flip, Double Double, jjj and more @ Solfa, 2016.09.10
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. Hip-hop's history in Japan…
Tokyo 2016 #5: DJ Daruma, kiLLa and more @ Contact, 2016.09.06
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. The trip's first overnight…
New project from Budamunk, with US MC Elon Kush!
The newest in a long line of collaborations from Budamunk will be an album with US MC Eloh Kush haling from New Brunswick, NJ. Their album, titled Fly Emperor will be…
Tokyo 2016 #3: Tokyo Health Club, Macka-chin, Zombie-Chang, Yosa & MCpero @ Shibuya WWW, 2016.09.04
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. After the first night's…
Ill Sugi + Midori in Europe… now!
I am a bit late with this news, as this tour has already started, but I just heard about it and it is big news, so, here we go anyways:…
DJ Mitsu The Beats is back with the fourth part of his Beat Installments series!
DJ Mitsu The Beats of Gagle / Jazzy Sport fame released the first part of his Beat Installments series back in 2012, which turned out to be one of the…
Foxpill Cult: Homo Demens Man – new album and two new videos from the new wave band!
The deliciously weird new wave (well, if you can call it new actually they are pretty hard to categorize) group Foxpill Cult already had a CD out earlier this year,…
Charisma.com, weddings and… toothbrushes!?
is a pop / hip-hop / electro duo and also, they are one of the most interesting and unique JPop acts from the last several And ever since they started…
[Area Check] #001
Area Check, yet another one of Japan Vibe's irregular series, will feature a selection of the best and / or most interesting recent hip-hop music videos from Japan, everything from…