Interview

Exclusive Premiere and Interview: First glimpse of ROA’s “Hitsugenius” music video

May 24, 2018

Alternative hardcore band ROA is a crew of enthusiastic rockers who marries the traditional Japanese Tsugaru shamisen to the Western guitar, producing a beautiful baby with the essence of both worlds. ROA has g...

Artist Interview: The pencil magician Kuji

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May 24, 2018

Entertainment, Featured, Interview

Following on with our Artist Interview series, we have Kuji who conjures up distinctive styled Jrock portraits with beautiful contrasting tones in both monochrome and vibrant colors. Kuji's art has a certain so...

Artist Interview: The curious art of yuroran’s neon flavored world

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May 17, 2018

Entertainment, Featured, Interview

Today we are speaking to yuroran who is a master at acid-bright colours and is an expert at merging this palette into amazing Jrock themed art as well as other subjects. This interview will cover how yuroran de...

Artist Interview: Tiny universe of J-Rock Chibi

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May 10, 2018

Entertainment, Featured, Interview

We're celebrating the handy work of the truly creative fans and speaking to some of the artists who produce some of the best Jrock and visual kei fan-art we've seen. J-Rock Chibi is a name you must have heard o...

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

Narine

Apr 30, 2018

Featured, Interview, Report and 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...

Interview: exist†trace power through shows to new material

Zansouki

Apr 6, 2018

Featured, Interview

It is no doubt that exist†trace is a group of veteran rockers, not just within all-female bands, but within the entire rock industry in Japan as well. In order to challenge themselves, they have been touring an...

Life of a roadie: the muscle behind every band

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Feb 25, 2018

Featured, Interview

Roadies with ninja-like reactions and movements are multi-skilled in a variety of backgrounds to help support and smooth out any problems with a performance. In the darkness, you'll spot the crew members at the...

Interview: How Seiichi Hoshiko was impacted by hide of X Japan

NBT

Jan 31, 2018

Interview

Last week Hoshiko-san told us the story how he came to coin the term "Visual kei". He also shared his mid-life crisis which resulted in him creating the magazine SHOXX. This week we'll dig deeper into this topi...

Interviewing the man who coined the term “visual kei”, Seiichi Hoshiko

NBT

Jan 24, 2018

Interview

We set out on a journey with the help of our friends at V STAR PROMOTION to speak with the man who coined the term "Visual kei". That man is no other than Seiichi Hoshiko (星子誠一), who is also broadly known as Vi...

Interview: We talk to MORRIGAN about Marvel, curry and furitsuke after Netherlands show

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Dec 13, 2017

Featured, Interview

After performing in Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and before the final show in France, we spoke to MORRIGAN after their performance in Amstelveen, the Netherlands on November 12. After the crowd spent ...

Interview: How rock saved Yoshiki’s life but destroyed his body

NBT

Oct 24, 2017

Featured, Interview

On a dark and cold evening of October 19 in the capital of Sweden; our mission today was to meet arguably the biggest rock star in Japan's history, the one and only, Yoshiki of X Japan! He was here today to pro...

Interview: Yousei Teikoku lays out their thoughts on a global takeover – Otakon 2017

Mazohyst_Kyo

Sep 4, 2017

Featured, Interview

On the eve of their performance in front of the mass of Otakon 2017 attendees, Yousei Teikoku (YT) was able to take time out of their schedule to sit down with JROCK NEWS for a short interview. Yousei Teikoku p...

Interview: The driving forces of Miyavi’s ambition—what keeps the great guitarist motivated?

Ziggy

Aug 30, 2017

Featured, Interview, Report and review

The US and Europe tour dates of Miyavi’s FireBird World Tour have now concluded, but before the show in London, we sat down with Miyavi to talk about his anniversary, the tour, and his passion for family, and w...

Interview: Survive Said The Prophet’s Yosh speaks about album “WABI SABI” and collab with Kenta (Crossfaith), Sawano Hiroyuki

Sizergyia

Aug 16, 2017

Featured, Interview

Can you please introduce yourself and tell us a surprising or quirky fact about yourself. Hello JROCK NEWS readers. I am Yosh, the singer of Survive Said The Prophet and SawanoHiroyuki. Music has been my thing...