Zombie-Chang gathers a support band and releases her 3rd album [Updated!]
A bit more than a year after Gang!, her second album and her first under her current label Zombie-Chang (aka. Meirin Yung) will return with a new full and with…
Introducing GLOSS, a new underground girl group
It seems that the J-Pop girl group revolution, that's been going on in the Japanese music industry these last couple of years is (fortunately) far from being over, and now,…
A classic live recording from Government Alpha from 2004
A few days ago US label Sounds from the Corridor uploaded a real rarity from Yasutoshi Yoshida's noise project Government Alpha: a live set that was recorded back in 2004 when…
Merzbow’s legendary Pulse Demon finally gets a vinyl reissue… and sells out immediately
Pulse Demon is clearly one of the best known releases by Merzbow and also, while it might not rank amongst his best material, it is clearly one of the most…
[Mixology] An hour of psytrance with Hydro Generator
Toru Furuyama aka. Hydro Generator has been at the forefront of Japan's psytrance scene for quite a while now, both as a producer and DJ, and also as the head…
Grooveman Spot returns to his hip-hop roots again with Resynthesis (Green)
Grooveman Spot is one of the key players of Tokyo's renowned hip-hop label Jazzy Sport and he has an extremely diverse back catalogue: his classic Eternal Development from 2006 was…
Tsushimamire featured in Kids N Cats’ song about Japan!
The friendship between Tsushimamire and Kids N Cats goes back a few year: as described by Mari in our interview, it all started when the Austrian duo emailed them in…
New split 7″ from Minami Deutsch out on God Unknown
God Unknown Records is a UK label known mostly for its exclusive psychedelic rock / krautrock 7" split releases. They already worked with several Japanese acts before, such as Acid Mothers…
All year is Halloween for Kyary Pamyu Pamyu who brings her spooky show to Europe in May
Japan's queen of weird pop will be back in Europe later this month for three concerts: one in London on the 20th of May and two in Germany on the…
New album + free downloads from Shadows [Updated with music video!]
Last week, almost exactly a year after the release of Illuminate, their first full length, Shadows announced that they will drop their second album late May and as a preview…