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BAND-MAID, an impossibly hard rocking maid band, have cancelled their upcoming BAND-MAID ZEPP TOUR in Japan but will hold a "new style of performance" at the mighty Nippon Budokan on 11 February 2021 (National Foundation Day). The band has also announced plans to release live videos on YouTube. A statement on BAND-MAID's homepage regarding the live videos reads, "Time goes on where we cannot see everyone, but we will be happy if you keep your hopes up a little more". The first BAND-MAID live video to be released is of "onset", an instrumental track recorded during the WORLD DOMINATION TOUR...

TOMOMI, bass player of Japan's all-girl rock band SCANDAL has selected some of her favourite songs for the JPU RECORDS PLAYLIST on Apple Music and Spotify – a series of ever changing playlists of great music from Japan and beyond, hand selected by JPU Records' band members or staff. TOMOMI's selections include a bunch of fantastic hip hop, rock and city pop tracks, such as those from Yumi Matsutoya (who has had 21 number one albums...!), hip hop band IN-SIST from Osaka, and recent viral hero Vaundy with Tokyo Flash, played over 7.5 million times on YouTube since September 2019....

KARI BAND will hold their first ever livestream on 20 June 2020, and it will be open to fans outside of Japan! Joining them will be Tatsuya Nishiwaki (keyboard) and Satoshi Oka (guitar), the same line-up as their tour for latest mini album "Nimaime" in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Tickets are available from the following website until the end of 19 June, Japan Time: https://t.livepocket.jp/e/q7-ggTickets are priced at ￥2,200 (around £16 / $20 USD / €18). KARI BAND broke three years of silence with an explosion of sounds, an assortment of fantastic guest musicians from Japan, and a beautiful tribute...

Previously Ena Fujita's music has seen her bash zombified members of clergy, gun down bikini-clad riot police, and take a baseball bat to an inanimate sex-doll. Now our favourite singer-songwriting-gravure-idol takes things a step further by grappling with one of anime's most iconic punch 'em-up franchises; BAKI. The latest series of the Netflix exclusive brawler, features the title track of Ena Fujita's knock out new single DEAD STROKE as its frantic, riff-fuelled ending theme. DEAD STROKE is out now as a four-track digital single from JPU Records for download and streaming. It includes funky B-side BATHROOM JET CANDY, as well...

Japan's all-girl rock band SCANDAL release their first home-recorded song 'Living in the city' from midnight on 3 June 2020, in the UK, Europe and North America via JPU Records. Click here to download / stream after midnight. Its video, recorded remotely from each member's home, appears on YouTube today ahead of the release. "I never once thought when I wrote this song that I would be releasing it in times like these," states bassist TOMOMI. "But now we have all been staying home, I feel like people can listen to it through a completely new lens." The song was...