Nehann: New Metropolis / #2021reviews
Nehann is a relatively new, Tokyo based band, which formed in 2019 and New Metropolis is their first album, preceded only by a few singles and demos. Including several brand…
Susumu Hirasawa: Beacon / #2021reviews
Ever since the '70s when he formed P-Model, his influential new wave / art rock / post-punk / whatever-you-wanna-call-their-strange-music band, Susumu Hirasawa has been both a legend and an outsider…
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…
Minds: new single and music video from Plasticzooms!
In the middle of December Plasticzooms will be back with a new single, their first new release since their latest album and their Spring EU tour. Besides Minds, the title…
New EP and music video from Foxpill Cult!
Foxpill Cult is back with a new music video called Cultizm which was made to promote their new EP, Nou! The EP itself, that contains four tracks was actually released…
Plasticzooms @ Mondocon, Budapest, 2017.04.22
Plasticzooms finished its longest-to-date European tour on the 22nd of April in Budapest, at the Spring edition of the local anime & pop culture convention called well, actually with me…
The newest new wave – Plasticzooms interview
Plasticzooms is about to finish their long EU tour that started back in February, so, in this email interview, that was arranged to promote their tour final at Mondocon in…
Tokyo 2016 #6: Foxpill Cult, Auto-Mod, Munimuni @ Ikebukuro Chop, 2016.09.09
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. I always had a…
Plasticzooms hops on the ’80s retrowave bandwagon with its new video
Plasticzooms' new album is due out this week (read about that and their upcoming EU tour here) and they uploaded a new video as well to support the release and…
Vamquet: debut album from the all star goth / new wave project
Vamquet, a new project by Kai (from legendary, but long gone goth rock band Art Marju Duchain), Közi (formerly of Malice Mizer and Eve Of Destiny, nowadays active with ZIZ, Dalle,…