Narine, Author at JROCK NEWS

Interview with Rimi Nishimoto (Poppin’Party) and Haruka Kudo (Roselia): “BanG Dream! changed my entire life”

15 March 2022

Last year in 2021, ANIPLUS Café held an online meet-and-greet "ANIPLUS Online Café" with two charming members from the "BanG Dream!" franchise. Joining the event was bassist Rimi Nishimoto who voices the charac...

Interview with NECRONOMIDOL: Vanguards of idols

NBT, Narine and Peertje

7 December 2021

Interview

NECRONOMIDOL is an idol unit with many unique qualities that make them stand out, especially among the cookie-cutter performers we normally come across. Describing themselves as an "ultra-dark" unit, there is a...

Interview: Unraveling the dark and mysterious NANO

NBT and Narine

25 April 2021

Interview, JROCK ONSEN, Vocaloid

NANO has just released the self-produced mini-album ANTHESIS so we took the opportunity to not only speak about the album, but also NANO's mysterious past. Being bilingual, born and raised in New York, to la...

Interview: Life of a concert photographer

edoh+, Zephyr and Narine

3 July 2020

Featured, Interview

Alright alright, we already know COVID has shutdown or postponed most, if not all, concerts and tours around the world. Now we have perfect opportunity to sit down with our resident concert photographers at JRO...

Interview with Shinya: How DIR EN GREY evolves with every live show

Sizergyia and Narine

30 April 2020

Interview

DIR EN GREY took to Europe once more in less than two years, making their return sooner rather than later. Near the end of its tour titled "TOUR20 This Way to Self-Destruction", we met up with the band in Londo...

Live report: HOTEI at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire 2018

Narine

4 December 2018

Featured, Review

The finale of Hotei’s European tour had finally reached the awaited London show on October 20, 2018. The O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire was organised differently from the usual standing layout and seats had been arr...

Interview: Guitar god HOTEI talks Fist of Northern Star and David Bowie

Narine

12 November 2018

Featured, Interview, Review

Hotei Tomoyasu (布袋寅泰), internationally famous for his music in Kill Bill, is a musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning over 35 years. Playing alongside legendary names including The Rolling Stone...

Video Interview: DEADLIFT LOLITA challenges Napoleon and Genghis Khan

Narine

28 August 2018

Featured, Interview

The two strongest kawaii stars in the universe, LADYBEARD and Reika Saiki from DEADLIFT LOLITA shared their thoughts on the upcoming Olympics in 2020, who they'd like to wrestle and also tips on becoming more c...

Interview: MIYAVI on his role in Bleach, values, and inspirations from hide

Narine

30 April 2018

Featured, Interview, Review

The sun was unusually brilliant for the UK on April 21, marking the second European tour date for MIYAVI's Day2 World Tour as if the heavens knew the Japanese guitar samurai would be visiting. In a room adjacen...

MIYAVI’s “Long Nights” EP features Afghan refugee rapper Sonita

Narine

14 March 2018

Releases

At the beginning of the year, MIYAVI announced he will be releasing a new EP every month starting from March without any prior notice or information of the content. The wait is finally over as MIYAVI drops two ...

MIYAVI becomes Byakuya Kuchiki for upcoming Bleach movie

Narine

10 March 2018

Anime, Entertainment

MIYAVI will be returning to the silver screen again as it has been confirmed that he will be joining the cast of the upcoming Bleach Live Action movie. The supernatural movie revolves around "Soul Reapers" (dea...

MIYAVI announces more dates for “DAY2” World Tour 2018

Narine

18 January 2018

Tour

MIYAVI released new dates for his upcoming "DAY 2" World Tour 2018 via Twitter after announcing that he will be embarking on a world tour earlier this month. Besides the 12 previously announced tour dates in Ja...

MIYAVI announces “DAY2” World Tour 2018 dates for Japan

Narine

29 December 2017

Tour

After a successful Firebird World Tour in 2017, MIYAVI has announced on NHK World that he will be having another world tour in 2018—"DAY2" World Tour 2018. So far only dates for Japan have been released, and d...

Live report: FEMM & LOVEBITES set stage alight at The UNDERWORLD, London

Narine

22 December 2017

Featured, Review

After two successful days of FEMM and LOVEBITES at Hyper Japan, it was now time for them to conquer The Underworld, London on November 27, 2017. The doors opened at 7 pm and around 100 eager fans made their way...

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