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…
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…