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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...

Visual Kei band el:cid will release their first full-length album, titled In the Shade on the 18th of August. The legendary band formed in Kyoto in the early nineties and...

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....

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...

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 organisation behind Viencon, a cosplay-focused convention that takes place at Centerparcs de Limburgse Peel in The Netherlands, has now confirmed that the convention will now take place in the...

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...

Dutch anime convention Nishicon will be postponed to 2022. The convention has been postponed a few times since last year due to the ongoing situation of the pandemic. Nishicon was...

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...

The name of HIRΦNO KAMINOSE might be new for many fans of Japanese music, but the person behind this name is totally not new to the same music industry. For...

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...

May is around the corner, which means that AVO's birthday will is almost starting. In the past, AVO's birthday was celebrated through festivals, concerts, giveaways and competitions, homemade cupcakes (by...

It was previously announced that the 2021 edition of Made in Asia at Brussels Expo would not take place in March, but later in the year. The month of September...

After signing several Japanese artists, SETSUZOKU RECORDS, a brand-new label division of tour organisation Orion Live UK, announced a new artist signing. It started with heavy metal vocalist IBUKI, to...

It has only been a short while ago when we reported on the postponement of the regular edition of AnimeCon and the news of a one-off Christmas event, but for...

Swedish gaming and cosplay festival NärCon has announced that they will once again postpone the summer edition of the event. The new dates are now 28 to 31 July 2022....

After it was announced that the 21st edition of Japan Expo Paris would not take place in 2021 but in 2022, it was mentioned that the exact dates would be...

The Dutch convention Abunai!, also known as Abunaicon, scheduled annually at the end of August at NH Koningshof Veldhoven, has shared a change of plans for the event that was...

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...

The organisation behind the Dutch convention AnimeCon, J-POP Foundation, shared news about their plans for the convention. For this year, there are two events planned, the regular edition of AnimeCon...

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...

After the postponement of Japan Expo Paris from 2020 to 2021, it is now official that the festival will not take place in 2021 and the event is now postponed...

The German convention Connichi will not take place in 2021. After deciding to skip 2020 for their event due to the pandemic and the regulations of the German government, they...