G Andrew White, Author at JROCK NEWS

SHOW-YA assembles Jrock’s leading ladies for livestream festival

12 April 2021

Japan's all-female heavy metal band, SHOW-YA, returns with their rock festival on April 29 with an attending audience but also available to livestream worldwide! The annual event SHOW-YA PRODUCE NAON NO YAON...

Miku Kobato changes to Jpop as cluppo for “PEACE&LOVE”

G Andrew White

1 April 2021

Music Video, New Look, Releases

Miku Kobato of BAND-MAID fame flies solo as JPop idol, cluppo, with the release of single PEACE&LOVE. While the debut is truly her new solo project, quite obvious given the timing that it is an April Fools'...

BRATS unite rock from Japan, Korea, Thailand with free livestream “Ambitious Girls Rock 2”

G Andrew White

19 March 2021

Online Concert

Get ready for round two as Japanese rock band BRATS returns with special guests for Ambitious Girls Rock 2, a free worldwide livestream! This second livestream in girls' rock series debuts on March 20 on BRATS ...

Rock on with R!N for “Get away” single

G Andrew White

13 March 2021

Releases

Aldious vocalist R!N comes alive with her first single Get away, releasing on March 18 and taken from her upcoming album for the career-restarting, REVIVAL PROJECT. To kickstart her new project, R!N has us rock...

TRiDENT launches 1st album “ADVANCE GENERATION” with “IMAGINATION” music video

G Andrew White

3 March 2021

Music Video, Releases

TRiDENT uploads IMAGINATION music video and announces its first full album, ADVANCE GENERATION, to release on March 17. Certainly, this young aggressive trio continues rocking us now with their fourth single. C...

Herman Li (DragonForce) invites BAND-MAID to Twitch stream

G Andrew White

23 February 2021

Entertainment, News

BAND-MAID guitarists Miku Kobato and Kanami will be special guests on Twitch with DragonForce's Herman Li this Friday. A few weeks ago, the guitarist and songwriter for British metal band DragonForce made an...

Guitarist SAKI steps into spotlight with “BRIGHTNESS” and launches YouTube channel

G Andrew White

11 February 2021

Releases

Rock and metal guitarist, SAKI, celebrates 10 years as a recording artist by releasing solo track, BRIGHTNESS. Right now, the music video is on her newly created YouTube channel. And later, expect details for t...

TRiDENT power up for ADVANCE GENERATION album and tour

G Andrew White

6 February 2021

Releases, Tour

The hard-rock trio, Trident, set tour dates to support the release of their first full album ADVANCE GENERATION out on March 17. Anyone in Japan may catch a performance from the dates set below between March...

R!N of Aldious proudly relaunches solo career

G Andrew White

5 February 2021

Releases

Lead singer of Aldious, R!N, announces her return to singing and songwriting. In a special video message posted on her YouTube channel, disappearing flowers act as a countdown for her 2021 REVIVAL PROJECT. This...

BAND-MAID serves up online performance for canceled Budokan show

G Andrew White

25 January 2021

Music Video, Online Concert

BAND-MAID's recently canceled its Nippon Budokan OKYU-JI concert mainly due to the spread of coronavirus in Japan. But do not let this be upsetting as they will deliver the event by livestream on February 11 at...

Best Jrock music of 2020: JROCK NEWS staff picks

Sizergyia, afaenia, Dorian, Mazohyst_Kyo, Midnight, G Andrew White, NBT, NoMusicNoReason and edoh+

19 January 2021

Entertainment, Music Video

The year 2020 saw the coronavirus pandemic take center stage, making this year feel longer than usual as we isolated indoors for months on end. On the bright side, however, releases from our favorite artists ke...

BRATS lead Japanese and Korean rock crossover livestream “Ambitious Girls Rock 1”

G Andrew White

9 January 2021

Online Concert, Releases

BRATS will headline the livestream of Ambitious Girls Rock 1 also featuring Velvet Sighs, and two Korean bands Rolling Quartz and VINCIT. The streaming event will be distributed for free on the Rolling Quartz o...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2020

NBT, afaenia, Mazohyst_Kyo, G Andrew White, Ziggy, edoh+ and Sizergyia

30 December 2020

Entertainment

I think we can all agree that 2020 has been quite a crazy year, right? There's a lot of canceled concerts and a whole load of things that affected the scene. Despite all the setbacks, we've seen the music indus...

Interview: How R!N adds soul to the heavy metal of Aldious

G Andrew White

27 December 2020

Interview

As the ladies of power metal Aldious prepare to release their next album Evoke II 2010-2020 and gear up for 2021, we had the opportunity to chat with R!N, their lead vocalist. While she just joined the metal...

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