Live report: HOTEI at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire 2018
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 diffe...
Interview: [ALEXANDROS] on cooking up music in Brooklyn
We were extremely lucky to be able to sit down and have a conversation with the popular rock band from Tokyo, before their show at Gramercy Theatre i...
Live report : [ALEXANDROS] at Gramercy Theatre 2018
Upon arriving at Gramercy Theatre, it wasn’t surprising to see that the line of fans anxiously waiting wrapped around the corner of the sidewalk and d...
Interview: Guitar god HOTEI talks Fist of Northern Star and David Bowie
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. P...
Interview: HIZUMI shares lifestyle as designer and UMBRELLA overseas expansion plans
HIZUMI who withdrawn from the music industry has been focusing on his design brand UMBRELLA the past seven years. Recently, HIZUMI and GANSHIN reveale...
Photo report : DIR EN GREY at Electric Ballroom London 2018
Written by Ziggy and Edoh. Photo credits to Narine at JRN.
When you witnessed the number of fans DIR EN GREY summoned to the city on a Tuesday night,...
Interview: Rides in ReVellion thirsts for overseas tour, unravels albums “Artery” and “Vein”
On a hot summer day in August at the music festival FEST FES 2018, we were able to grab the guys from Rides in ReVellion to have a casual talk about t...
Giveaway : Win special surprise VII ARC merch boxes
After a wonderful interview with VII ARC, they have generously offered us two special surprise VII ARC merch boxes for our readers to win. This myster...
Interview: The German frontier of visual rock VII ARC
Formed of five members in 2012, VII ARC is German alternative rock and industrial metal band. They released their album ATONIA -THE VOIDS OF TARTAROS-...
MORRIE successfully brings back third installment of Solitude live at Kraine Theatre
It has been a little under a year since MORRIE’s very first Solitude live show in New York City, and with this now being his third show in New York fo...
Review: Velvet Ants’ buzzworthy album “Entomological Souvenirs I”
The other day, without warning, a dragonfly landed on my shoulder and scared the hell out of me. In the half second before I jumped out of my chair an...
Review: DIR EN GREY guides us into “The Insulated World”
Between intense sessions of BanG Dream! and blasting Ningen wo Kaburu through my car's sound system I had lost track of how soon The Insulated World h...
Video Interview: DEADLIFT LOLITA challenges Napoleon and Genghis Khan
The two strongest kawaii stars in the universe, LADYBEARD and Reika Saiki from DEADLIFT LOLITA shared their thoughts on the upcoming Olympics in 2020,...
Interview: How to run a Tokyo record label with Ian Martin
Ian Martin is a man who wears many hats. Not only is he busy running his own Tokyo based music label, Call and Response Records, home to bands like Lo...