Zephyr, Author at JROCK NEWS

Report: DIR EN GREY’s first U.S. performance in nearly 6 years, “TOUR25 WHO IS THIS HELL FOR? [mode of VULGAR]”

Aug 3, 2025

In April of 2025, after nearly six years away, DIR EN GREY made a powerful return to the U.S. with a sold-out, three-night run in Los Angeles and Anaheim, California. Drawing a combined crowd of approximately 6...

Interview: DIR EN GREY’s Die on their triumphant U.S. return and the road ahead

Erica, Nori and Zephyr

Jul 28, 2025

Interview, Tour and event

Report: BABYMETAL expands conquest of the Metalverse with show in Des Moines

Zephyr

Dec 30, 2024

Report and review, Tour and event

BABYMETAL, a metal phenomenon whose name at this point needs no introduction, brought heavy metal chaos upon the crowd in Des Moines, Iowa on November 27 as a stop on their 2024 World Tour. Leading up to the sh...

Interview: HANABIE. rampages across US

Nori, afaenia, Jonathan Lane, Omatsu and Zephyr

Nov 16, 2023

Interview

Newly dubbed "Harajuku-core" band HANABIE. completed its ambitious run across the US, capped with a finale at the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento on October 6. JROCK NEWS caught up with the women who expertl...

Report: HANABIE. lights up Des Moines with hottest show of US tour

Zephyr

Nov 15, 2023

Tour and event

Tokyo metalcore band HANABIE. brought a high-energy show to the small midwestern city of Des Moines, Iowa. Inside Lefty’s Live Music, an intimate college town venue, HANABIE. melted the faces of concertgoers on...

Review: Discover traditional Japanese snacks with Sakuraco

Zephyr

Aug 11, 2023

Report and review

As folks who enjoy Japanese snacks, we were intrigued when Sakuraco reached out and kindly offered to send us one of their traditional Japanese snack boxes to try out.Sakuraco delivers the taste of traditio...

Rock sensation RADWIMPS defies odds with comeback US tour, soundtrack release

Zephyr

Feb 26, 2023

Releases, Tour and event

If you are an anime fan or a fan of Japanese rock, you are more than likely to know of RADWIMPS to some degree. Despite being active since 2001, the band has gained international notoriety in recent years for h...

tricot gets experimental in new single “INAI” featured in drama “Haru no Noroi”

Zephyr

Jun 14, 2021

Music Video, Releases

With the release of their album named 10 last October, and the single Bakuro in April, Japanese alt-rock powerhouse tricot have certainly kept themselves busy over the course of the pandemic. In comparison to t...

Interview: Life of a concert photographer

edoh+, Zephyr and Narine

Jul 3, 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: ZAQ’s heartfelt story on how anisong changed her life

Zephyr

Jan 27, 2020

Anime, Interview

Among the various anisong artists that performed at Anime NYC 2019 convention at the Javits Center, we were lucky enough to be graced by the presence of ZAQ, a singer with a prolific body of work in not only an...

Photo report: DIR EN GREY live at Gramercy Theatre, New York

Zephyr

Jan 17, 2020

Featured, Report and review

On December 13, 2019—a little over four years after their last show in New York, DIR EN GREY once again made their mark at Gramercy Theatre, a venue they are definitely familiar with at this point having played...

Interview with JAM Project: What sets opening and ending theme songs apart?

Zephyr

Jan 8, 2020

Anime, Interview

JAM Project, an anisong unit that has been a force to be reckoned with for 20 years now, held a powerful performance at this AnimeNYC 2019 in Manhattan. The unit consists of five members in Japan and a special ...

Interview with Rayark’s CEO: DEEMO -Reborn- brings you closer to its reality

Zephyr and NBT

Dec 3, 2019

Anime, Game, Interview

Many of you might be familiar with the critically acclaimed rhythm game "DEEMO" on Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch. Last month we got the opportunity to try out the reborn version of the game on Playstation 4...

MORRIE and Kiyoharu to play joint show in New York

Zephyr

Jun 2, 2019

Tour and event

Since the summer of 2017, veteran visual kei singer MORRIE from the bands "Dead End" and "Creature Creature" has played a string of live shows for his “Solitude” series of concerts in New York. And for the firs...

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