Entertainment

Mar 17, 2020

Entertainment, Featured, Report and review

The three UK musketeers of JROCK NEWS made a special pilgrimage to visit London's famous V&A Museum for the Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk exhibition. Featuring designs by Yoshiki of X-Japan, the Yoshikimono piec...

JROCK NEWS predicts Tokyo Olympic ceremony performers

Mar 9, 2020

If you've been hiding under a rock and so completely unaware, the 2020 Summer Olympics will be taking place in Tokyo this year! Currently scheduled to kick off on July 24 and ending on August 9, there is curren...

Studio Ghibli’s Joe Hisaishi conducts 2 shows in London

Mar 1, 2020

Entertainment, Tour and event

The much-loved and world acclaimed composer, conductor and pianist Joe Hisashi will be conducting two shows at SSE Wembley Arena, London on September 18–19. He will be conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra accom...

YOSHIKI to exhibit kimono designs at V&A museum in London

Feb 27, 2020

YOSHIKI's kimono project, YOSHIKIMONO, will be featured at London's prestigious V&A museum for the Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk exhibition. The show will open to the public from this weekend on February 29 till...

Fans of all ages explain why they like BABYMETAL

Feb 13, 2020

Entertainment, Interview

The unique concept of "kawaii metal" is something that started spreading with the inception of BABYMETAL. Combining the cute with the contrasting metal has proven to be quite a successful idea, enough so to sel...

Hello Kitty brings peace to Gundam universe through power of friendship

Jan 31, 2020

Anime, Entertainment

The trailer of the Gundam vs Hello Kitty crossover which many people first assumed was an early April fool's joke back in 2019, has slowly become a much bigger deal than initially anticipated. The collaboration...

Report: The cozy anime and Jrock oasis at Animé LA 2020

G Andrew White

Jan 28, 2020

Anime, Entertainment

In this series, we will be reporting our experience at Animé Los Angeles.Running between January 9–12, 2020 at the Ontario Convention Center in California, we flew out to the west coast for the 16th fan-ope...

The decade of Jrock girl bands

G Andrew White

Dec 29, 2019

In the decade of 2010, there has been a noticeable "girls band boom" where Japanese female musicians have stepped onto the international stage to rock as hard as the boys do. This fascinating phenomenon of musi...

Golden Bomber might have licked your newly bought album “Mou kohaku ni dashitekurenai”

NBT and Dorian

Dec 28, 2019

Entertainment, Releases, Videos

Golden Bomber keeps surprising us with shenanigans every time they release new music, and this time is no exception! To promote their latest album Mou kohaku ni dashitekurenai released today, December 28, the b...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2019

Dec 26, 2019

With our end-of-the-year artist ranking, we've always tried to stay somewhat objective in which bands we include. However, this year we decided to reach out to you, the people reading this right now! We asked y...

The rise of kawaii metal this decade

G Andrew White

Dec 25, 2019

This decade of Jrock cannot come to a close without covering its most unique creation. Which is to take the cuteness of a Japanese idol group and back them with a heavy metal band. An idea so crazy that it shou...

Top 25 anime opening and ending songs 2019

Dec 23, 2019

Anime, Entertainment, Music Video

Considering how hard it is to narrow down the greatest anime songs (anison) every year, we decided to expand this year's list from 20 to 25 instead! It's been an amazing year of anime so to our best of abilitie...

British Youtuber spends a week with HYDE