Mad3 – the revival of the infamous surf rock band!
Mad3, that started somewhere in the early '90s was Japan's wildest (mostly) instrumental surf rock band until they decided to call it quits years ago, sometime after 2006's Lost Tokyo…
Hone Your Sense – new mini album out today!
Hone Your Sense, one of the most brutal bands from Japan's metalcore / deathcore scene is coming out with a new release today: the mini album, titled Phenomena features five…
Acid Mothers Temple’s recent releases and their upcoming Europe tour dates!
It's been known for a while that AMT's main group, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso will appear at the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia (alongside Kikagaku Moyo and…
[Mixology] Iori @ Invite’s Choice Podcast (and European tour)
This new series called Mixology (well, as you can guess from the name), will be all mixes! More precisely it will be about collecting and re-posting some of the best…
TsuShiMaMiRe goes to Vladivostok’s V-ROX Festival for a headline show! [Cancelled]
TsuShiMaMiRe, the all girl punkish alternative rock group will be going to Russia to be one of the headliner acts at Vladivostock's V-ROX Festival! They've been around since '99 without…
Jintana & Emeralds delivers yet another dose of dreamy, Hawaiian exotica with Mirage
Jintana & Emeralds plays '50s inspired dreamy music, that takes us right back to the heydays of Exotica, with its tropical, Hawaiian flavor and steel guitar sound. The band, featuring…
Tokyo’s black metal band Cohol in Europe for the first time!
Cohol, playing a wonderfully dark and extremely heavy, still, very melodic version of black metal, with a little touch of post rock here and there will visit Europe for the…
Kikagaku Moyo in Europe again!
After their extremely long European tour earlier this year (live report and video from Vienna here) psychedelic rock group Kikagaku Moyo will be back for even more shows in a…
Disqus comments are now available!
Quick site update news: Japan Vibe just switched to Disqus' multi-platform comments system (as promised in the introduction post). So, if you have a Disqus account, you can also use…
[Blast From The Past] Laughin’ Nose – classic punks and the right way to handle your heritage
As the name, Blast From The Past suggests, this series will feature some great and/or interesting material from the last several decades of the Japanese music industry, including everything from…