Public Image Ltd have spent the last few months doing what they have always done best: turning up, playing loud, and refusing to play the he...
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Photos: Ozzy Osbourne at Loud Park, Japan, 2010
In 2010, Ozzy was still very much alive and able to perform at the highest level (he was 61 at the time). Here he is in all his Satanic glo...
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News: Timelesz's Shuto Inomata Arrested for Beating Up "Girlfriend"
Will Timelesz singer do time? Tokyo’s idol assembly line prefers its scandals to stay backstage, preferably with a tearful press conference ...
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Preview: Yīn Yīn, Japan 2026
YĪN YĪN's oeuvre is probably exactly the kind of thing almost any 4 European guys hanging out playing funk and psychedelia around the to...
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Interview: Lou Barlow, Sebadoh
With long-serving US indie-rock outfit SEBADOH, what you see—and hear—is what you get. "I always write from a very direct place," ...
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Preview: Carcass, Japan 2026
Liverpool’s long-reigning kings of gore and "surgical" precision are back in Tokyo yet again, proving that even after decades of p...
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Video: "The Reaper" by Misha Calvin and Tony Martin
Written sometime in the 1990s, "The Reaper" by Misha Calvin & Tony Martin (ex-Black Sabbath) is a denouncement of war and its ...
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Interview: Ian Gillan
TEXT-TO-AUDIO VERSION HERE EX-DEEP PURPLE VOCALIST, IAN GILLAN, HAS HAD HIS FAIR SHARE OF TRIALS N' TRIBULATIONS. HOWEVER, THE TALENTED ...
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Interview: Gaz Mayall, The Trojans
SKA-ING THEIR WAY INTO HISTORY Singer, bandleader, DJ, impresario and fashionable bloke about town Gaz Mayall says he's at the "hub...
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Preview: No Edits, Japan, 2026
The key to getting a good gig in Tokyo is to not to go for the jaded big names that have been dragging their brands around for several decad...
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Album Review: Ministry, "Psalm 69"
A real barrel of laughs this one. How to describe it? Tyrannical repetitive rhythms, a hornets’ nest of grungy, buzzing guitars, distorted v...
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Live Review: Winger, The Astoria, 5th July, 1991
The place is buzzing by the time we get there. The throng have arrived to check out these transatlantic pond hoppers. As soon as the lights ...
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Interview: Kelly Nickells, LA Guns
GUNNING FOR GLORY Time to get the cloves of garlic and start sharpening those wooden stakes because LA GUNS have returned, baring their teet...
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Live Review: Pistol Daisys, Irvine HAC, 21st February, 2026
Pudgy Zoomers I’m always dubious about getting behind “chick” bands. This is because chicks in rock are flaky as fuck. Blokes stay in bands ...
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Interview: Eddie Macdonald, The Alarm
GOING (BACK) OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY The ALARM were one of the bands from the "Celtic fringe" that surfed the post-punk energy tha...
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