Category: jrock

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?

WTF Is It With BiSH?

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I was a massive fan of BiS and by default I suppose BiSH. I’ve written about the latter before when I reviewed their awesome first album but I’ve never really paid much attention to them on Youtube until the site began throwing random suggestions at me.

And that’s when I began to realise something. Whoever is managing BiSH is a bit weird. Why? Continue reading →

An Interview with Tom from JPU Records

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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!

X JAPAN ANNOUNCES FIRST SINGLE FROM UPCOMING NEW STUDIO ALBUM

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LOS ANGELES (October 12th, 2015) – X JAPAN announced today that the iconic Japanese rock group will release, for the first time ever, a studio recording of their much loved song “Born To Be Free” on November 6th, 2015. The song, which the band has performed live to sold out shows around the world over the years, has never before been released as a studio recording. Continue reading →