The pulse of Japan’s rock and visual kei scenes. From the legendary longevity of arena-filling icons to the worldwide tours of modern rock innovators, we provide in-depth news and first-hand reports on the genre’s most influential and enduring performers.
New Japanese pop group Grenfelle — featuring Swinging Popsicle vocalist Mineko Fujishima — will release their first single “KEEP IT GOIN’” oContinue reading…
HYDE has released the music video for his new digital single “ON MY OWN”, the ending theme to the new anime series MARS RED. (more…)Continue reading…
Akihito Okano of PORNOGRAFFITTI, who is currently pursuing his “Walk To The Song In My Heart” Project, has announced his first streaming live perfContinue reading…
Esprit D’Air has released their cover of X JAPAN’s iconic song “Kurenai”, accompanied by a motion graphics video produced by 12 Inch Media (Bring Continue reading…
Girls rock band TRiDENT has released the music video for “IMAGINATION”, the new track from the group’s first full album ADVANCE GENERATION. (mContinue reading…
Japanese rock band BRATS will present “Ambitious Girls Rock 2” — the second of their 2021 livestream series — on March 20. In addition to a fullContinue reading…
On March 9, 2021, the Japanese Government announced that YOSHIKI has been awarded the prestigious Medal of Honor for his numerous charitable worksContinue reading…
SCANDAL celebrates their 15th year with their first single of 2021 entitled “eternal”, released March 3. “eternal” is co-produced by their longContinue reading…
Singer-songwriter KenCove has released the music video for his debut single “Youth of Gold”, a bilingual rock ballad which shows off the artist’s Continue reading…
Check out J-Generation′s best J-Pop and J-Rock album/single jackets of 2020, chosen by David Cirone, Marc Bowie, and Nhu Nguyen. Click here tContinue reading…