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The first European tour of all-female power metal band Aldious is cancelled. This was announced by UK-based tour organisation ORION Live. The tour was planned to take place in October,...

Theatrical group Japone Artists will present two brand-new music videos during HYPER JAPAN ONLINE, which makes it a worldwide exclusive premiere. The first video will be premiered on the evening...

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...

AVO Magazine started in 2003 as a forum and over the years transformed into an online magazine with a variety of articles. While I have started this project myself 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...

Good news for Japanese film-loving people! The dates for the 2021 edition - also the 16th edition - of CAMERA JAPAN Festival have been announced.CAMERA JAPAN will take place from...

After a successful small exhibition at Liever Hier earlier this year, Japan in gouache and watercolour, artist and Japanologist Philo Ouweleen will present a new solo exhibition from Tuesday 9th...

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...

A lot has already been done to celebrate AVO Magazine's 18th birthday and rightly so, 18 years is no mean feat! From the production of a podcast episode to the...

After cancelling the 2021 edition of CinemAsia Film Festival due to COVID-19 and losing a 4-year structural subsidy, a major funding, the organisation had to sound the alarm bell. A...

After the 2020 edition of MondoCon was cancelled and the convention went online for activities, this summer it will be different. The Hungarian convention has received a go-ahead from the...

The organisation behind the Belgian convention Atsusacon, Ganbaro VZW, has announced that there will be no 2021 edition of Atsusacon this summer. This means that there will be no Atsusacon...

For the annual summer exhibition at IBASHO, the Antwerp-based gallery has chosen for the theme Mizu, which translates from Japanese to English to water. As an island nation, Japan has...

The newest exhibition that can be visited at Amsterdam-based Nihon no hanga will show the series Japanese vocations of the Shōwa era in pictures by Wada Sanzo (1883-1967) and illustrates all...

The latest exhibition in Japan Museum SieboldHuis in Leiden comprises the work of Ogata Gekko. An exclusive presentation of his work, because it is the first time that a large...

Temperatures are rising, people are carefully venturing out of their homes in some parts of the world and having socially distanced gatherings outside again. Summer is here and, as always,...