Japanese Events: Music

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...

Akihito Okano of PORNOGRAFFITTI, who is currently pursuing his Walk To The Song In My Heart Project, has announced his first streaming live performance titled DISPATCHERS to be held on Sunday 11th...

With the current ongoing situation with a pandemic -we are sadly one year in- there are still those who are thinking of organising an event in a safe way that...

Tour organisation ORIONlive came with a final decision about the JPOP Double Trouble tour, a European tour originally planned with pop musicians 2& (DOUBLE AND) and Mariko Takei. The tour...

The first cherry blossoms have been showing up in Japan, which means that the cherry blossom season has started. It is still not possible to visit Japan, so we have...

Shonen Knife have announced that they will return to the United Kingdom this Autumn to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the pop-punk band. The UK tour will start at the...

Graspop Metal Meeting will not have a 2021 edition. Just like last year, the Belgian metal festival will postpone its 25th edition due to the ongoing pandemic. It is now...

After a successful crowdfunding campaign, Visual Kei musician SUI was supposed to return to Paris on 11 April 2020 with his project David, to perform there for the second time...

After a successful crowdfunding campaign for the album Oro Mike Mike May, ICHION (イチオン), consisting of Akira and Kyra, were able to release the album through HIGHFeeL. This album was...

The techno unit GOATBED announced that they will perform during their first studio two-part live broadcast show. The two live broadcasts, that are dubbed STUDIO LIVE BROADCAST, are planned for...

The details of the substitute shows for LUNA SEA -RELOAD- at Saitama Super Arena are announced by the rock band LUNA SEA. These shows were originally planned for December 2020...