Back in November of last year, the formation of the rock supergroup THE LAST ROCKSTARS (Yoshiki, Hyde, SUGIZO, MIYAVI) and their planned tour was announced. Seeing the quartet in action …
Read More »Yoshiki, HYDE, SUGIZO, MIYAVI form supergroup THE LAST ROCKSTARS; shows announced & teasers released
Yoshiki, HYDE, SUGIZO, and MIYAVI are the quartet of rock stars who will be uniting to form a supergroup called THE LAST ROCKSTARS. This is actually insane. The four are …
Read More »[Review] New Johnny’s group SixTONES debut with “Imitation Rain”
While K-pop took a break for the Lunar New Year, J-pop enjoyed a landmark week with the debut of two new Johnny’s Entertainment groups. Both SixTONES and Snow Man are …
Read More »[Event] X Japan’s Yoshiki performs at Grand Opening of Japan House in Hollywood
Japanese culture has been a huge part of Los Angeles and Hollywood for decades now, culminating in the grand opening of our very own Japan House at The Hollywood & …
Read More »Piko Taro collabs with Yoshiki on “Forever PPAP”, is getting the most out of his 15 mins
Piko Taro is now collabing with X Japan‘s Yoshiki on something they’re calling “Forever PPAP“, which is “PPAP” dramatically performed over “Forever Love“. https://www.instagram.com/p/BYm40FYgVwv/ Gotta give the guy credit, because …
Read More »SXSW 2016: The ‘We Are X’ documentary about X Japan & a Yoshiki live performance
On March 18, in what was likely the definitive highlight of SXSW 2016, I had the opportunity to catch the final screening of the X Japan documentary, “We Are X“, …
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