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20 August 2018

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AIOLIN’s “Antithese” video showcase beautiful violin performance

19 August 2018

Global fans of BanG Dream send a bitter-sweet farewell to seiyuu Akesaka Satomi

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16 August 2018

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Giveaway: Win a copy of “Quit Your Band!” by Ian Martin

14 August 2018

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DIMLIM’s “Aizou ni Tsuki” music video sees one half of a couple as good as dead

13 August 2018

Music Video, New Look, Releases

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Interview: How to run a Tokyo record label with Ian Martin

David Bolan

13 August 2018

Exclusive, Interview

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 Looprider, Tropical Death, and SHARKK, but Ian's also a season...

Reol to release “Jijitsujou”, first full album since returning as solo act

11 August 2018

Releases

Reol announced her new album Jijitsujou (事実上) scheduled to hit stores on October 10! After releasing three digital singles and the mini-album Kyokou Shuu, Reol has at last composed enough songs to produce he...

Aimer and Sayuri’s heart fluttering shows at Anisong World Matsuri

9 August 2018

Review

The magical night of July 6 at Microsoft Theater, in Los Angeles, was filled with joyful moments as four exceptional artists brought out their best on the second night of Anisong World Matsuri. This was the day...

Interview: ROA discuss meat, olympics and heroes at HYPER JAPAN 2018

9 August 2018

News

The seven-piece Shamisen rockers, ROA, had just toured America before landing in London to perform their first set of UK shows, starting with Japanese culture event, HYPER JAPAN. Held at London Olympia on 13—15...

The curse of European tours – JROCK ONSEN Ep.6

Mazohyst_Kyo

8 August 2018

JROCK ONSEN

Lucky you, JROCK ONSEN is back with another hot ladle of news! These soup references are getting harder to make, but at least the news keeps flowing in. This time we got some funky fresh DADAROMA news with s...

MonstlloW regains dark, heavy sound in “Yubikiri Genman” single

7 August 2018

New Look, Releases, Videos

The dark and heavy hitters MonstlloW is preparing for the release of their third single Yubikiri Genman! And now, we have a song preview for the three tracks that will be included. The single will be first made...

Initial’L’s exhilarating “Can You Feel It?” music video pits masked swordsmen against each other

6 August 2018

Initial'L has been on a roll recently as they released three consecutive singles from March to May, released single Can You Feel It? on July 25, and are now gearing up to release their first album INITIALIZE on...

Interview: Sanketsu-girl Sayuri, 2.5-dimensional parallel singer-songwriter

6 August 2018

Interview

Last month, Sanketsu-girl Sayuri went all the way from Japan to L.A. to perform at Anisong World Matsuri, an event which took place in North America's largest Japanese pop culture convention, Anime Expo 2018. ...

Kizu writhe away on top of mental asylum in “Steroid” music video

5 August 2018

Kizu presented the contents of Steroid with a passionate song preview and an eye-catching lyric video for Buta. That was not it however, as the band commemorated the release of the single on July 31 with an evo...

Aimer pre-releases “Black Bird” single with digital download

3 August 2018

Releases, Videos

There's still some time before the release of Aimer's 15th single Black Bird—or rather "Black Bird / Tiny Dancers / Omoide wa Kirei de" which is its full release name. But for those who can't wait for the offic...

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Initial’L’s exhilarating “Can You Feel It?” music video pits masked swordsmen against each other

6 August 2018

Initial'L has been on a roll recently as they released three consecutive singles from March to May, released single Can You Feel It? on July 25, and are now gea...

Kizu writhe away on top of mental asylum in “Steroid” music video

5 August 2018

Aimer pre-releases “Black Bird” single with digital download

3 August 2018

Releases, Videos

DIR EN GREY reveals tracklist for “The Insulated World” album

2 August 2018

New Look, Releases

DAMY’s “Psychopath” music video features heartless murder

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2 August 2018