One OK Rock announces World Tour and EU dates
Insanely popular rock band One OK Rock recently announced the dates for their 2017 World Tour: they will have a lot of dates throughout the US from early July till…
New track and UK dates from The Fin.
Indie act The Fin. hasn't released anything new for quite some time: even though there were some remixes a few months ago, their latest new material, the Through The Deep…
FEMM’s European mini tour… this weekend!
Even though FEMM's been very popular outside Japan, they never performed in up till now! As this week will see their long overdue European debut in the form of a…
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…
Linekraft returns with “Iwatsuki”, a limited cassette release
Linekraft is a solo project of Masahiko Okubo, that takes noise and industrial back to its roots, mixing electronics with metal percussion and now he will drop a new cassette…
LDH’s boyband, Generations goes on a World Tour
Generations, a boyband that belongs to LDH, the agency that's been busy turning the JPop industry upside down these last couple of years (read all about them in this feature…
Haino / Merzbow / Pándi trio, OOIOO & Afrirampo in Europe!
One of the best and most interesting Japanese noise release from last year was a trio recording, out on UK's Rare Noise by Japanese noise / experimental legends Merzbow, Keiji…
Crossfaith’s tour dates in UK, Ukraine, Ireland and Russia!
Crossfaith, the hottest export of Japan's metalcore scene will return to Europe for two separate tours, supporting some old friends. First they will go on a UK tour with Bury…
GYZE – melodic death metal, ongoing European tour and upcoming album!
The melodic death metal band started back in 2009 in Hokkaido, under the name Suicide Heaven, but then they moved to Tokyo, changed their name to GYZE and that was…
Qujaku’s new 10″ EP and longest EU tour to date!
Back in 2015 when Qujaku (still under their old name, The Piqnic) played a totally out-of-the-blue show in Budapest during their first, short European tour, I went to check them…