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J-Rock Megastar Miyavi Wants to See You Faint
It’s 10 a.m. in Tokyo, and Miyavi is battling a hangover, which is more or less apropos for the singer/guitarist, long known for walking the walk of true rock ‘n’ roll...
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LAZYgunsBrisky Take The Safety Off
The four ladies in Japan's LAZYgunsBRISKY have found the magic formula for writing hell-for-leather rock songs that stay somehow cool and elegant. It's a little mind...
Music Video
G.NA — “Top Girl”
Cube Entertainment’s resident diva G.Na sings about the lifestyles of the rich and famous in “Top Girl,” off her second mini album of the same title. Normally we would...
interview
大震災にも負けないDIR EN GREY
８つのアルバムをリリース、数え切れない程のツアーをこなし、まるで全てを経験したかのような５人組バンド、Dir en Greyはよく磨かれたボーカルハーモニーを特徴とする激しく鮮烈なメタル音楽を作り続けている。
interview
Not Even An Earthquake Can Topple Japan’s Dir En Grey
Dir en Grey has been through it all. Through eight studio albums and countless tours, the fivesome continues to churn out brutal metal with seasoned vocal...
blog
Artist of the Week: Japan Metal Legends, Dir En Grey
To indie rock, hip hop, and indiepop groups everywhere: be afraid, be very afraid.
In the last few moments of our Artist of the Week race, Japan avant-death metal...
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Go Chic @ Pentaport Rock Festival: Defiant Electro in Trippy Leggings
Taiwanese electro punk band Go Chic performed at the Pentaport Rock Festival in Incheon, Korea this past weekend in a blur of neon skirts, animal print headbands, and,...
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Dir En Grey Powers Through Disaster
When a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck Japan in March, Osaka-based metal band Dir En Grey was in the studio working on their 8th album. At first the quintet didn't know...
Live
Idiotape — “Idio_T” (Live)
After Idiotape’s formation in 2008, the electro-rock trio blew Korea away with their innovative revival of old-school sounds mixed with today’s electronic music. Check...
Live
Idiotape — “0805” (Live)
After rocking out at SXSW and the Canada Music Week, Korea’s Idiotape plugged into Brooklyn as part of the 2011 Seoulsonic Tour. Get lost in the trio’s blippin’...
Music Video
2NE1 — “Ugly”
Now here’s a breath of fresh air. Despite its lyrics - soaked in insecurity and vulnerability - 2NE1’s “Ugly” is one of those feel-good self-affirming teen anthems....
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Pairs Trash Shanghai
Pairs is couple of cute kids who live in Shanghai and make an awful lot of noise. F provides the grinding, splintered guitar noise. Rhys, AKA Xiao Zhong, keeps the beat...
Music Video
2NE1 – ”Hate You”
2NE1 goes anime in “Hate You,” a electrically-charged track with the girls’ trademark swagger. It’s Powerpuff Girls meets Bleach and Gorillaz as CL, Park Bom, Minzy, and...
article
B-Free The Korean Slacker Rapper
If DOK2 is the hard, dirty South (ish) rapper of Seoul's Hongdae scene, then B-Free is his goofy, philosophical West Coast cousin. In his music video for "Where U At," a...
Music Video
AV Okubo — “Breakwave”
Keep a Mortal Kombat style power-up handy after jamming to AV Okubo’s “Break Wave.” The energetic Chinese punk band (with notable metal influence) shows us how they get...
Music Video
2NE1 – ”I Am The Best”
Following the soulful release of “Lonely,” 2NE1’s latest head-banging, eye-catching, mind-blowing dance track “I Am The Best” made an immediate all-kill on the music...
review
Boris — “Hope” and “Riot Sugar” (Music Video)
This settles it, Boris has the most sophisticated sense of humor in heavy music and, perhaps, the most elegant sense of timing. It's the subtle kind of humor where it...
Short
Jin Akanishi: Yellow Gold Tour 3010
The bad boy of J-pop chart-toppers Kat-tun made his solo North American tour debut this year. Called the Yellow Gold Tour 3010, the show stopped in Chicago, San...
article
Dok2 Chops his Competition
The latest percolation from the Hongdae hip hop scene is the baby-faced, swearing Dok2, whose first full length boasts the mix of raw attitude, strenuous hometown...