FAKY: Surrender – new music video from one of Japan’s most unique girl groups!
JPop girl group FAKY's been rather quiet lately: they released a very decent mini album back in May and took part in the FAMM'IN project alongside singer Yup'in and mannequin…
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…
Tricot: watch the full Budapest show from the band’s 2016 EU tour online!
The crew of A38, Budapest's popular club-on-a-ship often films the shows at their venue, but for long, long years these concert videos were only broadcasted on local TV and never…
Hijokaidan’s new joint project with ’80s idol pop singer Yoko Hatanaka
Hijokaidan (非常階段), one of Japan's most prominent noise groups really got into joint projects the last couple of years. These collaborations included some less surprising ones, like teaming up with…
[Mixology] Xtal explores Japan’s disco, funk & soul heritage
It is already winter, but if anyone wants a break from all the sappy xmas ballads that flood everything this part of the year, here is a great mix from…
Hirofumi Asamoto of Ram Jam World passes away
After spending over two years in coma, following a tragic bicycle accident, musician and producer Hirofumi Asamoto passed away on the 30th of November, 2016 at age 53. Over his…
Tokyo 2016 #1: Tokyo Pop with FEMM, Lisachris and more @ Kawaii Monster Cafe, 2016.09.02
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. When I finally returned…
Charisma.com goes Pop Art!
In the previous news post about them, I was already going on about how is the probably the strangest JPop duo out there nowadays (well, OK, besides FEMM), with extremely…
Babymetal gets its own US animated series!
When (just after the RHCP news) you thought that Babymetal really can not surprise you with anything even more unexpected in their journey towards World domination comes the announcement from…
Pop, dance & mannequins: an interview with FEMM
FEMM is clearly one of the most interesting Japanese pop acts from the last few years: their unique take on electro pop with a bit of a hip-hop influence here…