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taffy return with new album ‘NYCTOPHILIA’ and news of a UK tour

19th April 2017

taffy have released their new LP NYCTOPHILIA, the group’s first release in nearly 2 years. Since releasing their 2015 EP...

Otoboke Beaver’s new EP ‘Love Is Short!!’ is pure fire

18th April 2017

Otoboke Beaver release their new EP Love Is Short!! ahead of their UK tour this May. Forming in...

tricot unveils new video for ‘DeDeDe’ ahead of upcoming album ‘3’

16th April 2017

tricot have released the music video for DeDeDe from their upcoming third album 3. In the last couple...

BRAHMAN release ‘Fugutaiten’ their first single in over a year

15th April 2017

BRAHMAN have released their new video for Fugutaiten, the band’s new single which dropped on April 12th. An influential...

Esprit D’Air release video for new single ‘Guiding Light’

15th April 2017

Esprit D’Air have released an all-new video for their latest single Guiding Light on the band’s official YouTube...

FEMM announce London live debut and new single ‘Do It Again’

14th April 2017

Tokyo dance pop duo FEMM are set to make their UK live debut at London’s O2 Academy Islington...

mouse on the keys London 2017 European Tour

mouse on the keys return to UK for 2017 European tour

11th April 2017

Tokyo experimental jazz/post rock threesome mouse on the keys have confirmed they’ll be returning to the UK as...

ONE OK ROCK Reading and Leeds 2017 Ambitions

ONE OK ROCK announced for Reading and Leeds 2017 line-up

9th April 2017

ONE OK ROCK have dropped news that’ll they’ll be joining Reading and Leeds festival’s 2017 line-up. Joining a bill...

HER NAME IN BLOOD release details for new EP ‘FROM THE ASHES’

9th April 2017

HER NAME IN BLOOD have released details for their upcoming EP FROM THE ASHES. After breaking the news of...

MAN WITH A MISSION Dead End In Tokyo London 2017 Band

MAN WITH A MISSION to play London headline show this June – Dead End in Tokyo European Tour 2017

8th April 2017

MAN WITH A MISSION have announced they’ll be returning to London for their second UK headline performance as...

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News

ONE OK ROCK unleash ‘DETOX’—A soundtrack for a fractured world

Arlequin drop new video despair-fuelled single ‘Chi wo Kayowasero, Sono Inochi Subete ni.’

Crossfaith return to Download Festival for first time in over a decade

Events

Crossfaith return to Download Festival for first time in over a decade

matsuri ’25 global stream announced – Ado, YOASOBI & ATARASHII GAKKO!

Hitsujibungaku to tour West Coast on first US headline run

Features

What is CEIPA? The organisation behind matsuri ’25 and MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN

Yoshiki honours David Lynch: A look back at their surreal collaboration on X Japan’s ‘Longing’

The best music collaborations out of Japan this year

Live Reports

(ARCHIVE) An Cafe live in London (2014): The oshare kei icons’ last UK show

NANO & MADKID live in San Francisco: Rock and pop collide on joint US tour

Phantom Siita live in San Jose: Retro horror meets idol pop

Interviews

Minori Nagashima – serval DOG – interview: “After dropping out of middle school… that’s when I picked up the guitar”

NIGHTMARE interview: Visual kei legends talk 25 years, DEATH NOTE fame, and first European tour

tricot reflect on first anime theme ‘Call’ for You Are Ms. Servant and 15 years in music

What is CEIPA? The organisation behind matsuri ’25 and MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN

ONE OK ROCK unleash ‘DETOX’—A soundtrack for a fractured world

matsuri ’25: Japanese Music Experience LOS ANGELES

News

taffy return with new album ‘NYCTOPHILIA’ and news of a UK tour

Otoboke Beaver’s new EP ‘Love Is Short!!’ is pure fire

tricot unveils new video for ‘DeDeDe’ ahead of upcoming album ‘3’

BRAHMAN release ‘Fugutaiten’ their first single in over a year

Esprit D’Air release video for new single ‘Guiding Light’

FEMM announce London live debut and new single ‘Do It Again’

mouse on the keys return to UK for 2017 European tour

ONE OK ROCK announced for Reading and Leeds 2017 line-up

HER NAME IN BLOOD release details for new EP ‘FROM THE ASHES’

MAN WITH A MISSION to play London headline show this June – Dead End in Tokyo European Tour 2017