Tag: Japan

Shonen Knife will return to Australia this October following the release of Let’s Knife: Re-Cut, a newly recorded version of the landmark album that helped launch the Japanese band’s international career.

Regurgitator will play their first Japanese shows since 2009, reuniting with long-time collaborators Shonen Knife for dates in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.

Richard Barbieri returns with Hauntings, his first solo album since Under A Spell, exploring memory, nostalgia and simulation across eleven new 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).

Osaka Monaurail, the funk orchestra formed in Japan in 1992, will come to Australia for Blues On Broadbeach in May.

The 1975 will make their live comeback at Japan’s Summer Sonic festival in August.

Sayaka Kanda has been found dead at age 35.

a-ha is the latest act to cancel touring plans because of Coronavirus fears.

Japan’s Yoshiki, lead singer of X Japan, joined Kiss for their two-song encore in Tokyo on 11 December.

Yoko Ono has released her own version of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ to mark what would have been John’s 78th birthday this week.

Yoko Ono has released ‘Hey Mr President’ with John Palumbo as his new single.

Yoko Ono is previewing a new song every week with this week’s instalment being ‘Hell In Paradise’.

It appears a woman might be breaking rocks in prison just for stealing one.

Celebrity thug Chris Brown has postponed his shows in Japan after he was denied entry to the country due to his ongoing assault case.

Paul McCartney performed at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday night as part of his Out There Tour, marking 49 years since The Beatles historically played the venue.

Black Sabbath will not be saying goodbye to Japan, at least not in the way originally planned.

If Black Sabbath are about to play their last ever show Sharon Osbourne has done a very unconvincing job of selling the message.

Apple has released another box set of Beatles albums, this time for the Japanese market.

Sir Paul McCartney is expected to be well again just days from now.

Paul McCartney has completely cancelled all shows in Japan have coming down with a virus.

Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth has been making a movie in Japan and so far it doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Irish cult favourites, My Bloody Valentine have recently been added to the line up to this year’s Fuji Rock Festival, which takes place on the green slopes of Naeba Ski Resort, Japan, in late July.

Japanese psych rock act The Zoobombs book a zippy tour for August on the back of their new album.

Days after Van Halen cancelled 31 upcoming shows on their North American tour a Japanese tour has been announced.

After postponing their US tour, David Lee Roth has let it slip that Van Halen’s next plans are for Japan and Australia.

Sydney pop-punk upstarts, Tonight Alive, have been nominated for two Kerrang! Awards just before their national tour.

As the 5.6.7.8’s took their places on the infamous stage of Melbourne’s iconic Tote Band Room, the sold out audience was rife for the distinct brand of powderpuff rockabilly the Japanese rockers are known for.