UK J-Pop fans should mark their diaries for 11th October 2015 when KYARY PAMYU PAMYU will be staging her 3rd concert in the UK at the Roundhouse venue in London. KPP’s appearance is part of a greater effort by Moshi … Read More
A few weeks back a curious feature popped up on the Hyper Japan website. It was a puff piece designed to draw attention to the fact that Dempagumi.inc are to perform at the summer event, which is big news considering … Read More
DEMPAGUMI.INC have now officially been confirmed to appear at the summer HYPER JAPAN event. The Tokyo-based idol act, who specialise in the denpa style of J-Pop (read: insanely catchy), have been barreling along since 2008, but it was the rapid-fire … Read More
“People Usually Aren’t Idols for 10 Years, Are They?” Berryz Koubou’s 35th single, released 10 years after their debut seemed to have the optimistic message: Berryz were the idols who would be going against the grain and be around for … Read More
Looking at Japan’s traditional Christmas music show While Christmas in Japan is a very different experience to those that we enjoy in the west, there’s a familiar tradition that arrives every New Year’s Eve in the shape of Kohaku Uta … Read More
It was always a most unlikely collaboration: in one corner, the colourful idol outfit MOMOIRO CLOVER Z and the other corner, the classic rock outfit KISS. The finished product is ‘Yume No Ukiyo Ni Saitemina’, a song that was penned … Read More