After a 22-year streak of sending pop fans into a frenzy, Japanese “boy” band SMAP debuted their newest single this past week, “Upside-down Sky,” which rocketed to the top of the charts ...

Indeed, Nara's popularity within the punk, new wave and hard-rock sectors of pop culture begins to explain the massive appeal of his art. Just like rock artists, he revels in a kind of perpetual ...

Punk rock has been around in Japan since the birth of the style in the '70s. Many Japanese bands took the speed and noisy fury of British and Scandinavian punk bands of the '80s, and created their ...

Peelander Yellow (a.k.a Kengo Hioki), the guitarist and leader of Japanese cult band Peelander-Z — and the star of 'Mad Tiger,' a documentary on the GWAR-meets-Power-Rangers punk rockers.

The Kyoto-based Otoboke Beaver takes in the history of Japanese punk and runs with scissors in hand towards the bonkers-noise of early Boredoms, Afrirampo's uninhibited avant-punk, and the revved ...

‘The Gesuidouz’ Review: A Japanese Punk Band Finds Its Voice in a Sardonic Genre Comedy Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Midnight Madness), Sept. 12, 2024. Running time: 93 MIN.

After a 22-year streak of sending pop fans into a frenzy, Japanese “boy” band SMAP debuted their newest single this past week, “Upside-down Sky,” which rocketed to the top of the charts ...