Back in 2005 J-Pop Go trialed its own dedicated J-Pop magazine. Each issue was a glossy print publication with a variety of articles and features. Now we’re making available some of the back issues here via the J-Pop Go Shop. … Read More
Rock trio return SHONEN KNIFE have a new European tour lined up this year – and a new album Overdrive to follow. The rock trio’s last outing was the 2012 release Pop Tune, on which J-Pop Go’s review stated: “Shonen … Read More
J-Pop Go will be on guest DJ duties at this weekend’s AYACON event. AyaCon is a weekend long Japanese culture convention featuring a range of events and guests revolving around anime, manga, video games, music and all parts of Japanese … Read More
The legendary SHONEN KNIFE return to London in September with a very special concert. The pop-punk trio will be performing a special set made up of songs voted for purely by fans of the band. The performance, at Camden’s Dingwalls, … Read More
2012’s J-Pop tunes of choice… Here’s a round-up of songs (plus videos) that caught our attention throughout 2012. In order to be fair, only one song per artist and we’ve opted for purely J-Pop tunes for this list. There were … Read More
Pop punk trio SHONEN KNIFE, whose 21-date European tour is drawing to a close, have been invited by The Japan Foundation to give a talk about their long career later this month. SHONEN KNIFE formed back in 1981 and were … Read More