Category: jpop
Babymetal Announce 2016 Tour AND New Album For April 1!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK! That’s April Fools Day isn’t it?
I have no plans to go to the Wembley show but the Tokyo Dome sounds awesome. The Tokyo Dome’s capacity is around 55,000 which means it will be about as INSANE a live show as one would imagine.
Are you going to any shows next year? And what do you think the new album will be like?
Swinging Popsicle To Release New Album ‘Flow’ in December
J-Pop band’s USA appearances include: Fanime (San Jose, CA), Anime Mid-Atlantic (Richmond, VA), New York Anime Festival (New York City).November 19, 2015 – J-Pop band Swinging Popsicle has announced the release of their new album flow at the end of this year as part of the band’s 20th Anniversary . The 6-track album will feature 3 new songs, 2 previously-released digital-only singles, “at Christmastime” and “mobile phone”, and a cover of The Jackson 5′s “I’ll Be There” with guest musicians from Japanese indie mainstays VASALLO CRAB 75 and GOMES THE HITMAN.
flow will also contain a DVD of music videos (including “I Just Wanna Kiss You”) and international touring/performance footage from the band’s long career which began with Sony Records in 1995. The band has gone on to find international success with numerous overseas performances in the United States, Mexico, and Korea, as well as contributions to various soundtracks for Japanese video game company Nitroplus.
Fans can learn more about the new album and preview the song “Small Blue Sailboat” at the special album release website here .
Interview Questions for Ladybaby
I’m interviewing these crazy cats when they perform Hyperjapan November 27-29.
What should I ask them?
An Interview with Tom from JPU Records
I met Tom on a train to Hackney after the BABYMETAL forum show last July – which was well wicked – and we’ve been in contact ever since. I figured it was about time I interviewed the wee bam, especially seeing as how I took him around Glasgow and we both got properly wrecked. Continue reading
Stop Everything You’re Doing And Watch This Video!!
The band are called 557232O and this song is best described as a cross between Sparks, a Salvador Dali picture, the 1970’s Charlie and the Chocolate movie and some 1960’s futuristic sci-fi TV show and is as gloriously over the top as any song about a frickin’ biscuit can be. But don’t take my word for it, watch it below and make your own mind up!
Brand New Idol Society to Reform?
My contact touring Tokyo sent me a message saying word on the underground idol scene is that Brand New idol Society are reforming!
For those unfamiliar with them, BiS managed to tread a fine line between idol pop/rock and alt.rock really well. Basically, BiS just didn’t give a flying fuck what anyone thought about them and from watching a few shows on the interwebs I realise how nuts they were as a live act too:
But this needs verified. Does anyone have any further news on this? Get commenting or hook me up on Twitter.
Introducing Dempagumi.inc
“Can you see the Death Star from The Big Dipper constellation?” asks Eimi from Dempagumi.inc (or simply Dempagumi). She is (of course) referring to a comic named North Star: “In the first of the North Star comic there is a faint star in the Big Dipper and if you can see it with the naked eye, death is upon you”.
In Conversation With Scandal
Scandal are a Japanese all-girl rock band and while relatively unknown on our shores, are bigger than the proverbial Godzilla in their home country. The group have sold out practically every leg of their current world tour, including 2 nights at the mighty 20,000 capacity Budokan in Tokyo and were in the UK to play a capacity concert at the Islington O2 Academy on April 26.
Babymetal Live Review at the Brixton Academy
BABYMETAL return to the UK for another round of genre-bending, guitar shredding, unbridled mayhem in front of another sold-out London audience.
After I managed to dry out from the biblical downpour before the show I was afforded the chance to watch BABYMETAL, the Japanese J-pop/metal hybrid, from many vantage points on Saturday November 8 2014; high up in the balcony, the peripherals of the stage, on top of several other people after the infamous ‘wall of death’ collapsed during ‘Ijime, Dame, Zettai’ (‘No more bullying, never’ obviously) and I can honestly say with not a hint of irony, BABYMETAL smashed it this night. Continue reading
I Went To See BABYMETAL
As many visitors to my world famous site know, I am a huge fan of Babymetal and a horrible liar because last time I began a sentence like this I said I would never blog about them again. Well just get over your high horses ‘cos I’ve just got back from London where I totally saw them live! Continue reading
Najinsan!!!!!!!!! 