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Noise Duo PIKACYU-MAKOTO Return This May For UK Tour

17th March 2016

PIKACYU-MAKOTO, two of the most prominent figureheads in Japan’s underground psych/pop scene- speed guru Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers...

PHOTOS: Esprit D’Air, The Pipeline, London, 12/03/2016

14th March 2016

PHOTOS: ESPRIT D’AIR, THE PIPELINE, LONDON, 12/03/2016 Despite being down a drummer and having not taken to the...

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Announces Best Of Album And 2016 World Tour

10th March 2016

As part of her five-year anniversary celebrations, Japanese pop culture and fashion icon Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has announced...

MELT-BANANA And the piqnic To Play Raw Power Festival 2016

9th March 2016

MELT-BANANA will be returning to London for what might just be their only UK set of 2016 at...

Otoboke Beaver Make Their UK Debut This Spring

6th March 2016

Otoboke Beaver are a punk rock quartet hailing from Kyoto, and you better remember that, or they’ll rip...

DJ Krush Returns To The UK This Month For Long-Awaited London Set

6th March 2016

DJ Krush, the godfather of trip-hop, returns to the UK this month for his first set of UK...

SHADOWS Publish Video Recording Of New EP ‘EXTRANCE’ For A Limited Time

4th March 2016

SHADOWS, consisting of three of the original members from the recently separated FACT, Hiro (Vo), Kazuki (Gt), and...

8 Of The Best Japanese Music Videos You Need To See

3rd March 2016

A music video can make or break a record. They can make an average track memorable, and a...

BAND-MAID Announce New Album and UK Debut at London Comic Con

3rd March 2016

All-girl hard rock five-piece BAND-MAID are pushing on with their self-proclaimed quest for “world domination”, and have their...

coldrain Announce European Tour For Spring 2016

29th February 2016

This May, Nagoya metalcore unit coldrain will be returning to the UK as part of their 16-date European...

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go!go!vanillas bring calm after the storm for SAKAMOTO DAYS Part 2 ending theme

Paledusk to make major label debut with ‘HUGs’, opening theme for Gachiakuta

Fujii Kaze confirms third album ‘Prema’, shares lead single ‘Hachikō’

Events

FACT confirm full lineup for final ROCK-O-RAMA event at Makuhari Messe

ASP announce “ASP in the U.K Tour”, their first international headline tour

KAF to perform at mixed-reality event Fantastic Reality in Los Angeles this July

Features

anklet: “We didn’t know left from right” – Tokyo’s new indie voice on building a band from nothing

JJJ to remain POP YOURS 2025 headliner in tribute following his passing

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

Live Reports

YOASOBI live in London: J-pop storytellers bring blockbuster ambition to Wembley

BABYMETAL live in London: A 15-year climb culminates in landmark show at The O2

kanekoayano live in London: No longer just Kaneko Ayano with a band

Interviews

IRORI Records artists comment on first UK shows at The Great Escape 2025: go!go!vanillas, Kroi, Ako, and Bialystocks

CHAMELEON LIME WHOOPIEPIE interview: Dancing through doubt and doing it their way

Hitsujibungaku interview: US debut, anime themes, and life beyond Tokyo’s indie circuit

YOASOBI live in London: J-pop storytellers bring blockbuster ambition to Wembley

Centimillimental EUROPE TOUR 2025 “ribbon”

go!go!vanillas bring calm after the storm for SAKAMOTO DAYS Part 2 ending theme

News

Noise Duo PIKACYU-MAKOTO Return This May For UK Tour

PHOTOS: Esprit D’Air, The Pipeline, London, 12/03/2016

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Announces Best Of Album And 2016 World Tour

MELT-BANANA And the piqnic To Play Raw Power Festival 2016

Otoboke Beaver Make Their UK Debut This Spring

DJ Krush Returns To The UK This Month For Long-Awaited London Set

SHADOWS Publish Video Recording Of New EP ‘EXTRANCE’ For A Limited Time

8 Of The Best Japanese Music Videos You Need To See

BAND-MAID Announce New Album and UK Debut at London Comic Con

coldrain Announce European Tour For Spring 2016