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…
Crossfaith: European tour in June, with festival shows and club gigs [Updated]
Crossfaith will return to Europe this summer and even though they did not announce their full tour schedule yet, seven gigs were already confirmed by different sources, so, let's see…
Crystal Lake returns to Europe this summer for a long, 18 date tour!
After Crystal Lake's first ever European tour last year, Japan's metalcore veterans will return to Europe for another, even longer tour! It will start at the end of June, will…
Church Of Misery returns to Europe for a double tour
Since their formation in 1995 doom / sludge heavy weights Church Of Misery already had many drastic lineup changes, including switching vocalists several times and shortly after their EU tour…
Karnage and Dayzero are back with a new album… and some more!
When new generation dubstep heroes Dayzero and Karnage released their joint EP back in December, they also announced that they will drop a new album together in 2018. Well, the…
Does the new album from Doberman Infinity abandon all their hip-hop roots?
Doberman Infinity had a very interesting career so far: they started out as Doberman Inc back in 2000 playing a very club-friendly, but still rather decent kind of stuff like…
X Japan’s Toshi teams up with rapper AK-69 for an unexpected collaboration
It seems that lately Japanese singers try to outdo each other in unexpected team-ups. Just think about rapper Sky-Hi's song with hippie indie cuties Czecho No Republic (which turned out…