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…
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…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
The last days of Girugamesh – an exclusive interview (2016.05.25)
When you do an interview with a band there are some usual, almost obligatory influences, songwriting, the band's history and future plans. Now, these were all left out in part…
Jumbled rock & diversity – an interview with Tricot (2016.03)
Tricot, the Japanese all-girl trio that mixes complex, irregular rhythms with a soft, pop sound came back to Europe in early 2016, so I did an email interview with them…