Japanese Events: Music

HYDE can be seen as one of Japan's most prolific rock artists and is known for as being the vocalist of L'Arc~en~Ciel and VAMPS. Lately he has been more active...

Metalcore band CRYSTAL LAKE will return to Europe for a new tour in the winter of 2022. The European tour is planned for February and the beginning of March and...

On Sunday the 18th of July, Ryota Yoshinari, will celebrate his birthday with a music event at Live Bar Thumbs Up in Yokohama. Ryota is better known for his work...

Even though there are not as many conventions and other activities planned this year, AVO Magazine will still work hard to contribute to the events that do take place. The...

Shonen Knife's planned United Kingdom tour, scheduled for autumn of this year, will be postponed to 2022. The tour was announced as a celebration of the pop-punk band's 40th anniversary...

There will be another YouTube Music Weekend, organised by YouTube Japan, the third special event since December 2020. More than 50 musical acts have been confirmed to join this weekend...

The online edition of HYPER JAPAN will soon start, but the organisation is still announcing interesting activities. Not so strange since the online event will last for one whole month...

Rock'n'roll band Guitar Wolf will be organising a new edition of Shimane Jett Fes, planned for 9 and 10 October. Last year, the event took place online due to the...

During the pandemic, when physical events were cancelled and the doors of cultural organisations were closed, going to events virtually sounded like a logical next step. It is not something...

HYPER JAPAN will be soon starting with its one-month long event HYPER JAPAN ONLINE, on Friday 9th of July. As the name says, it will take place online and many...

Slowly but surely it seems that is it possible to plan tours for musicians and for Kikagaku Moyo (幾何学模様) that was enough reason to do this as well. The psychedelic...

In February, it became known that the 15th-anniversary edition of Hellfest would be postponed once again. Dates were set for 17, 18 and 19th of June 2022. Today, the organisation...

We will have to wait a little longer for the second edition of Italian idol festival Monster of Dolls. The organisation has been busy with the arrangement of a new...

Recently confirmed to take place in 2022, the music festival Primavera Sound in Barcelona has also shared the lineup for the two weekends in June 2022, 2-4 and 9-11). Many...

Making plans in 2021 is of course a bit of a gamble, but it looks like festival Le Guess Who? is positive given the organisation is busy setting up the...

After being confirmed for the 2020 and 2021 edition of the alternative music festival Jera On Air, it seems that we have to wait a bit longer before Crossfaith will...

The rockers of LUNA SEA will be streaming their 30th-anniversary concert from Tokyo Garden Theater. Following the concert at Saitama Super Arena in March earlier this year, Zaiko will be...

In the middle of cancellations and postponements, there is also some good news of tour announcements. There are not many, since the current ongoing situation of the pandemic is still...

The European fans of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. do have to wait a bit longer before the 'soul collective' will return to Europe for a tour....

The rockers of GLAY have embarked on a continuously live concert programme, titled THE ENTERTAINMENT STRIKES BACK, through streaming them in four months. They started in March and it will...

The eighth edition of the Dutch multidisciplinary underground festival Grauzone will take place later in May, on the 21st and 22nd, and will take place online. The organisation just announced...

SHAG, the psychedelic jam band led by SUGIZO - composer, guitarist, violinist, arranger, producer and well-known member of LUNA SEA and X JAPAN - announced that they will be streaming...

For most people, it has been a while that they attended a show physically. Luckily there have been enough livestreams to enjoy, from live performances to recorded ones, experimental rock...

It was not a total surprise, since metal band BRIDEAR did announce the return to Europe in their livestream last summer and this was confirmed by tour organisation Orion Live...