Preview: Acid Mothers Temple, Tokyo 2025

Due to a typhoon, an ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE show we recommended some months back was cancelled. Who knows what will happen this time. Personall...

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PREVIEW: GLASS BEAMS, TOKYO, OCTOBER 2025

GLASS BEAMS are a Melbourne-based trio led by Indian-Australian multi-instrumentalist Rajan Silva. After you get over the fact that they pla...

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PREVIEW: VIAGRA BOYS, JANUARY 2026, TOKYO

Variously described, VIAGRA BOYS sound mainly like dance punk/ surf music to me. They also sound the way you'd expect a "punky...

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Tokyo Gig Picks (July/ August)

Hikashu July and August are not great months for music in the Tokyo Metropolis. Ironically this is because of the two big music festivals (S...

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Preview: The Third Man

THE THIRD MAN are a trio comprised of founder member Gus Isidore on vocals guitar, Mark Crosbie-Smith on drums, and Robbie Romp on bass. Hav...

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Preview: AWOL

Three-piece band AWOL are fronted by female vocalist Max Perri, alongside founder member Clive Minzaga on drums and Dave Goodes on guitar. T...

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Tokyo Gig Picks (June)

Man With a Mission Never knowingly bettered, our Tokyo Gig Guide is characterised by its incredibly wide range of taste (no narrow comfort ...

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Tokyo Gig Picks (April)

Gig Night In my view, Tokyo has slipped a lot as a World music city, with many of the big acts and new acts being a lot less willing to come...

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TOKYO GIG PICKS (MARCH 2024)

The Melvins Nowadays the Japanese and Western music scenes have pretty much gone their separate ways, but, as recent shows by Taylor Swift s...

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Preview: Monsters of Rock '91

HELL AIN'T A BAD PLACE TO BE This year's monsters of rock festival, taking place at Donington Park, has become somewhat of a controv...

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Preview: End of Year Concerts

Music to get you in the festive spirit Music tastes differ from person to person, but less well known is that they also vary over time. The...

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Preview: Rattlesnake Kiss

Birmingham's hottest new rock act, RATTLESNAKE KISS, who have been the subject of a number of showcases recently, are reportedly on the ...

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Preview: White Lightning

WHITE LIGHTNING are a quartet from Staines. They have re-released an album ( ...As Midnight Approaches ) first out in 1988, on Workshop Reco...

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Preview: Muse, 2007

Lyrically musing on what’s wrong with the world The great thing about being a teenager, or even a 'twentager,' is that you thin...

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PREVIEW: NEW ENGLAND

Attitude, that quality so many bands lack. That simple "fuck you" that distinguishes the deserving few from the hordes. NEW ENGLAN...

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PREVIEW: DANGER

In the Danger Zone Heavy melodic rockers DANGER are a five-piece outfit from Glasgow with a relatively strong following up and down the coun...

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Preview: Biffy Clyro / Trashcan Sinatras, Japan 2010

Biffy Clyro It's not often that you get two bands from the same small corner of Scotland appearing in Japan at the same time, but ...

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Preview: Marilyn Manson, Japan, 2001

Marilyn Manson has made a career out of waving a red rag at the bull of Middle America's tender sensibilities. His shock rock thriv...

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Preview: Evanescence, Japan 2007

DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO A SMOOTH SOUND That 'difficult second album' is one of the clichés of rock music, and like most clichés it ju...

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Preview: Gary Moore 2010

There's something mean and misshapen about Gary Moore, both physically and musically. With a scarred face (apparently the result o...

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