BAND-MAID - JROCK NEWS

Miku Kobato changes to Jpop as cluppo for “PEACE&LOVE”

1 April 2021

Miku Kobato of BAND-MAID fame flies solo as JPop idol, cluppo, with the release of single PEACE&LOVE. While the debut is truly her new solo project, quite obvious given the timing that it is an April Fools'...

Herman Li (DragonForce) invites BAND-MAID to Twitch stream

G Andrew White

23 February 2021

Entertainment, News

BAND-MAID guitarists Miku Kobato and Kanami will be special guests on Twitch with DragonForce's Herman Li this Friday. A few weeks ago, the guitarist and songwriter for British metal band DragonForce made an...

BAND-MAID serves up online performance for canceled Budokan show

G Andrew White

25 January 2021

Music Video, Online Concert

BAND-MAID's recently canceled its Nippon Budokan OKYU-JI concert mainly due to the spread of coronavirus in Japan. But do not let this be upsetting as they will deliver the event by livestream on February 11 at...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2020

NBT, afaenia, Mazohyst_Kyo, G Andrew White, Ziggy, edoh+ and Sizergyia

30 December 2020

Entertainment

I think we can all agree that 2020 has been quite a crazy year, right? There's a lot of canceled concerts and a whole load of things that affected the scene. Despite all the setbacks, we've seen the music indus...

BAND-MAID surprises with performance of new song “After Life”, from upcoming album

G Andrew White

16 December 2020

Online Concert, Releases

Over the weekend during BAND-MAID's ONLINE OKYU-JI livestream, they performed the new song After Life for the very first time, a track you'll find on their next album, "Unseen World". Briefly introduced by voca...

Japanese livestreams to check out in December

Midnight

5 December 2020

Online Concert, Tour

We apologize for running late with this month's roundup of livestreams. As a note, you can still watch past-streams thanks to the playback feature which allows you to view "dead" streams days after a concert ha...

BAND-MAID boots up with theme song “Different” for anime “Log Horizon 3rd Season”

G Andrew White

3 November 2020

Anime, Releases

BAND-MAID is to release the single Different on December 2, and it will join in as the opening theme for NHK E-TV anime Log Horizon: Entaku Houkai which starts broadcasting in January 2021. The title-track will...

Rock out to these Japanese livestream shows in July

G Andrew White

30 June 2020

Online Concert, Tour

With venues closed around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several artists are using livestreams to deliver performances for the fans. By jumping to online streaming services they can perform in place of...

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BAND-MAID cancels 2020’s ZEPP TOUR but announces 2021 show

edoh+

24 June 2020

Tour

After the cancellation of BAND-MAID's ZEPP TOUR in Japan, the girls have announced a "new style of performance" at the Nippon Budokan on February 11, 2021. As to what "new style" means, we're not sure yet as th...

BAND-MAID shares exciting live video of “Choose me” ahead of concert release

G Andrew White

25 April 2020

Music Video, Releases

On April 22, BAND-MAID dropped Choose me music video from their WORLD DOMINATION TOUR . It's the second preview of what to expect when the concert DVD and Blu-ray release on April 29. As the music video starts,...

BAND-MAID serves livestream with KNOTFEST canceled

G Andrew White

14 March 2020

News, Online Concert

n the wake of so many public events being canceled, BAND-MAID has announced they will perform a livestream on Friday, March 20, at 19:00 JST. And they will be performing the set that was planned for this year's...

The decade of Jrock girl bands

G Andrew White

29 December 2019

Entertainment

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...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2019

NBT

26 December 2019

Entertainment

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...

Review: “CONQUEROR” has BAND-MAID duelling on sound

G Andrew White

14 December 2019

Review

After several weeks of news about BAND-MAID, they serve up their ambitious third full album CONQUEROR. It weighs in with 15 songs that include most of the singles released since World Domination. Accordingly, o...

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