Goth-Trad, Broken Haze, Carpainter & more @ Boiler Room’s Tokyo Bass stream… in a few hours!
The Boiler Room crew's been working with Japanese artists for a few of years now and they already had a couple of excellent online stream shows (that are now mostly…
Iori: Cold Radiance
Iori's 2012 masterpiece, Nexus is still one of the best deep, minimal and dub techno albums to ever come out of Japan, and his EPs released since were equally fine,…
Her Name In Blood: new album, video and European tour!
It was announced a while ago, that metalcore band Her Name In Blood is coming out with a new album mid-September and they already released a hilarious teaser video to…
New releases from Shadows and Joy Opposites!
One of the worst news to hit Japan's rock / metal / punk / whatever scene last year was FACT's disbandment announcement and to make it even worse it came…
FEMM: Neon Twilight / Countdown – two new songs and videos from Japan’s strangest pop duo
FEMM, a duo that claims that they are "mannequins" is one of the most interesting things that showed up in Japan's pop music scene in the last few years and…
Mono: Requiem For Hell – new album and EU tour
Mono is one of those Japanese bands, that seem to be on a never-ending worldwide tour, only stopping once in a while to record a new album. And it is…
Napalm Death Is Dead / Space Grinder / 1000s Of Cats / Cunts @ DRRPNC, Budapest, 2016.07.07
When the wonderfully named Seven Dead Space Cunts tour came to Budapest, the promoters decided to add five local acts to the bill and name the event (quite fittingly) International…
6eyes: Table – new release from the indie rock band after a long break
The Nagoya based indie rock band 6eyes built up a pretty serious cult following with their first two albums (Pirate Music and Blank In Black), thanks to their wonderfully dissonant…
Kikagaku Moyo @ Arena Wien, 2016.06.30
The very young psychedelic rock group, Kikagaku Moyo's been becoming somewhat of an international sensation lately, due not only to their excellent albums, that's been getting mostly rave reviews (especially…
An interview with Jun Konagaya of GRIM
This interview, which I believe is the first ever English one with Jun Konagaya, the man behind Grim and White Hospital, was conducted right after Grim's first appearance overseas, a…