ReviewsPalastleben: Manufacture
There were many excellent releases coming out of Japan in 2025, but if I had to pick one as the absolute I would probably pick this one. The debut album…
Reviewsf5ve: Sequence 01
During the last couple of years Japan's pop girlgroup scene went through a rather drastic change, with nearly all groups from the former generation disbanding and new ones taking their…
ReviewsThe People In Fog: Too Much Knobs And Cables
Yoshifumi Sodeyama has been a mainstay of Japan's electronic dance music scene for about two decades now and while with his better known moniker, DJ Sodeyama he explores techno music with…
Live ReportsHANABIE. @ Dürer Kert, Budapest, 2025.11.23.
HANABIE. became one on the biggest international sensations to come out of Japan in the last couple of years: their completely unlikely blend of extreme metalcore and cheesy J-Pop went…
Interviews“From that moment, all our worries disappeared” – an interview with HANABIE.
This email interview with HANABIE. was conducted in November, 2025, around the time the band played its second show and first ever club show in Budapest, Hungary. The show took place…