HALCALI, a duo made up of Haruka and Yukari, performed in Paris just a few days ago. This isn’t the first time the girls have appeared in France, as they had a blast at Japan Expo in 2007.
At the Japan Expo in the summer of 2007, they were given a warm welcome by their fans [...]

A while ago, we made a post on the weblog in which we asked people to post pictures of their concert memorabilia, i.e. guitar/bass picks and drumsticks that they caught at concerts. We got quite a few replies to that, so many thanks to everyone who contributed!

Here are the results, and we managed to [...]

It seems to have become a trend for retired bands to return and play one more concert together, and this has been especially the case this year, particularly with Luna Sea’s concert in December last year.

Luna Sea played an amazing déjà vu concert on Christmas Eve 2007. Approximately 55,000 people came to see this legendary [...]

Last summer, the band GARI made their way to Europe to perform in France and Finland. They performed thrice: at the Japan Expo in Paris, again in Paris with the band SPLEEN VS IDEAL and at an animecon in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Recently, we met with vocalist YOW-ROW in Japan to reflect on this tour and his [...]

the GazettE was welcomed with a lot of joy and cheer when they visited France on the 26th of October. To bring memories back for the people who were there, and to those that weren’t but wish they could have been, we give you photos from the amazing concert that had a venue filled with [...]

After her second performance in Finland, JaME sat down with Kana to have a small chat about her European tour, her newest album and more.

This is already your second time touring Europe. How do you feel about that, and do you have any special expectations for this tour?Kana: I’m sure I’ll see a lot of [...]

Maybe you’ve wondered why the sun lightens our hair but darkens our skin, or why women can’t put on mascara with their mouths closed. But have you ever wondered how things are done on JaME?
Maybe you’ve asked yourself why JaME has a file on [insert band] but not on [insert band]. Or you’re curious about [...]

During concerts, band members tend to throw guitar picks into the audience, and of course, drumsticks at the end of the concert. Sometimes, you get lucky and catch one of the items thrown into the audience. Some people are extremely lucky and manage to catch something at every event, but for others, catching a falling [...]

Musically, there might not be many similarities between the boy groups of Johnny’s Entertainment and visual kei bands, but in some ways these two Japanese sub-cultures are more closely related to each other than you might think. For example, the statement “pretty young men making music” applies to both.
While it might anger their fans to [...]