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Japanese pop-punk pioneers Shonen Knife will return to Australia this October with a national tour timed to the Australian and New Zealand release of their newly recorded album Let's Knife: Re-Cut, revisiting the record that helped establish the band internationally more than three decades ago.

Regurgitator have returned to Japan in July 2026 for their first performances in the country since 2009, reconnecting with long-time collaborators Shonen Knife and revisiting one of the band's most enduring international markets.

Richard Barbieri, of Japan and Porcupine Tree, returns with Hauntings, a new solo work exploring memory, simulation and spectral atmospheres across eleven immersive compositions

The Tote is one of the last standing bastions of seminal music venues replete with the distinctive stench of decades of musos and punters’ blood, sweat and tears seeped into the carpet and walls.

Award winning Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto had died at age 71.

BABYMETAL will return to Australia in June for their first headline tour. The Japanese band were previously in Australia in 2018 for the Good Times Festival.

A tribute album to Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto ‘To The Moon and Back’ will be released this Friday (2 December 2022).