One OK Rock: Ambitions – new album and music video from the popular rock band… probably on their way to mainstream US charts
Currently One OK Rock is probably the most successful Japanese band in the global market (besides Babymetal and Crossfaith of course) and they obviously do not intend to stop on…
Plasticzooms: new album and EU tour early next year!
Yet another European tour, this one is for next Spring by Tokyo's underground favorites, Plasticzooms! So, who they are? They started back in 2007, had their first releases out in…
Metafive: Metahalf
Metafive started back in 2014 as an all star super-group, formed by Yukihiro Takahashi of Japanese techno / electro pop innovators Yellow Magic Orchestra, including Tomohiko Gondo (from the band…
Vampillia + VMO in Europe!
If there is a band, that is really very difficult to describe, it is Vampillia, with its totally weird mixture of music genres, maybe calling them an avant-garde black metal…
T.C.L – hardcore / metal group, featuring some local legends is back with its 2nd album!
There was a band called The Mad Capsule Markets, active between 1990 and 2006, which, after its early punk years, started to cross hardcore and electronic music, did quite revolutionary…
Indie rock group Helsinki Lambda Club’s first full album is out this week!
Helsinki Lambda Club is one of the most charming indie bands around nowadays and they are coming out with a new album this week, called ME to ME. It was…
KK. Null & Balazs Pandi: upcoming album and EU tour!
After his recent tours with Merzbow and Keijo Haino, Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi will travel around Europe with yet another Japanese noise legend, KK. Null. By far the longest of…
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…
SA: WAO!!!! – new album and video from the punk veterans
So, I mentioned in the post about Razors Edge, that there are a lot of old, still active punk rock bands in Japan and SA formed even earlier than Kenji Razors'…