Official SCANDAL News

Japanese girl band SCANDAL have announced new dates for their postponed 2020 'Kiss from the darkness' world tour. The first dates to be rescheduled have been confirmed for the UK, France and Germany. These will now take place in October 2021. Here is the band's official statement for the UK and European dates: "Thank you for your continued support of SCANDAL! We are happy to announce re-scheduled 2021 UK and Europe tour dates, for the shows postponed in September 2020. "Your tickets will remain valid for the postponed shows. If you are unable to attend the new date, you will...

SCANDAL celebrated their 14th anniversary today, 21 August 2020, with a special livestream entitled SCANDAL WORLD TOUR 2020 'Kiss from the darkness'. Following the live performance the band announced that they will be holding a solo show at OSAKA-JO HALL on 21 August 2021 to mark SCANDAL's 15th anniversary. For those that missed the livestream, or want to relive the magic, it is available to watch on demand for a 48-hour period commencing 22 August from 11am BST by visiting this link: https://livefrom.events/scandal/ SCANDAL released latest album Kiss from the darkness from their own label "her" (in partnership with JPU...

It's with ambivalence that we update the latest edition of the JPU RECORDS PLAYLIST. On one hand, we're excited to bring out the new playlist of fantastic J-pop tracks chosen especially by SCANDAL vocalist HARUNA. On the other, we're sad to see our series of SCANDAL playlists come to an end. We've discovered some great tracks over the recent weeks, and we hope you did too! Follow and listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and YouTube Music. Similar to the playlists from TOMOMI, RINA and MAMI, HARUNA's includes a number of classic Japanese pop. Such as the very first single...

MAMI, guitarist of Japanese girl band SCANDAL and writer of the band's ace new single SPICE, has taken over the JPU Records Playlist on Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer and YouTube with a selection of her favourite songs from Japan and beyond! MAMI's playlist takeover includes plenty of energetic guitar-pop and indie rock classics from the East and West, mixing The Wombats, Last Dinosaurs and Two Door Cinema Club beautifully with Japan's Ellegarden, Creep Hyp and Yoru no Honki Dance. There's also classic J-pop with Pocket Biscuits' 1996 breakout song "YELLOW YELLOW HAPPY", Sword Art Online song "Thrill, Risk, Heartless" from...

Japanese girl band SCANDAL has released their new single SPICE today. The track is part of short animation XPICE from production studio XFLAG, a collaborative, cross-creative project by internal and external creators and artists, which has also been released today and is viewable below."We knew that when you mix a diverse set of people and talents, the extraordinary happens," states the project's homepage. "So with a mission to create new culture, we brought artists and creators together to combine a unique story, masterful animation, and an all-new song from SCANDAL into something the world's never seen before. The result? Our...