Japanese Events: Music

LOVEBITES and CRYSTAL LAKE will be making their first appearances at Download Festival 2019 at Donington Park in the United Kingdom this Summer. LOVEBITES, who recently won Best New Band...

Metalcore band CRYSTAL LAKE announced a few shows at European festivals that will take in the Summer. The band will return to Jera on Air in The Netherlands, but will...

The pop-punk band from Osaka, Shonen Knife, announced to come back to Europe for a tour. The tour, titled ALIVE! in Europe 2019, will start in May. Earlier the band...

All girl rock band BAND-MAID toured the world just last year, with performances in the United States and Europe in November, but a world tour for 2019 is already in...

2019 did start good for Alternative Hard Rock band LOKA. During the performance at the Countdown To 2019 live show at Shibuya The Game, the band announced that they will...

After announcing the performance at Roadburn Festival 2019, that is sold out since a few weeks, the instrumental rock band MONO announced a European tour. The tour, titled Nowhere Now...

ORIONlive are busy to make 2019 a memorable year for the organisation and the fans of Japanese music, by organising Metal Matsuri in October, but also the Indie, Idol and...

The all-female steampunk power metal band from Tokyo, FATE GEAR, will tour Europe in March. Before the tour dates were announced, the band did a crowdfunding to make the tour...

Pop girl group Perfume is added to the line-up of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2019 in the United States. They will perform on Sunday 14 and 21 April,...

Tribal oriental dreamy psych band KUUNATIC announced that they will be back in Europe in 2019. The trio will perform at the festival Muskelrock in Sweden on 30 May. Furthermore,...

An early Christmas present for the overseas fans of the GazettE, the visual kei rock band has announced that they will begin their next world tour in April 2019. The last...

In October, the tour organisation REALive, subdivision of HIGHFeeL, announced the formation of a new band with the name GOOD THRU DATE. The band just formed and already it is...

Some of Japan’s finest heavy metal artists will be coming to the United Kingdom for a history-making event in heavy metal next October. Live event promotor ORIONlive, based in the...

Japanese garage quartet Otoboke Beaver (おとぼけビ～バ～) will return to the United Kingdom during the Golden Week in 2019 for 6 exclusive shows. This time they will perform with special guests...

It is the time of new tour announcements for the upcoming year. The newest announcement is the coming back of the Visual Kei band Jupiter to Europe. It will be...

For the first time, the rock band sokoninaru (そこに鳴る) from Osaka will go on tour through Europe. The tour, organised by Riot Rock Booking, is planned for February 2019. sokoninaru...

Le Guess Who? starts today and a couple of Japanese musicians will perform at this celebration of sound. This year is the 12th edition of the festival. From 8 November...

MAN WITH A MISSION surprised fans with the news that they will be coming to the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Russia for their Chasing The Horizon tour. The tour...

From the last day of October will singer-songwriter Miho Hatori (羽鳥 美保) tour Europe to promote her solo project New Optimism.  Miho Hatori is known as the co-founder poly pop...

Roadburn Festival has announced 25 bands for the upcoming festival in 2019, one of the names was the instrumental rock group MONO. Among the other act announcements were Myrkur, Marissa...

HYPER JAPAN will have a Winter edition from 16 November till 18 November at Olympia London. Last year was a Christmas edition, this year the upcoming Winter will be celebrated...

To promote his latest release REBOOT, SATSUKI goes back to Europe for some shows. The tour, that is part 2 of the REBOOT tour and organised by Snakez Agency, is...

Suzuki Junzo is coming back to Europe with a tour and a few new releases, The Magus and 静かな部屋で足音は (Shizuka Na Heya De Ashioto Ha).  The tour through mainland Europe...

Not long to go until Japan Festival 2018 will take place in Amstelveen. The festival started as a biennial event and for a few years, it will take every year....