Electric Bloom Webzine

INTERVIEW: "I never imagined there were so many people waiting for us". SPYAIR prepare for their first European tour in eight years with new vocalist YOSUKE. 🔗 www.electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/spya... #SPYAIR #Anime

DIR EN GREY fans are petitioning the band's management to end their AI deal with Cifer Studio, after its AR showed the members losing their arms to tank fire and its X account mocked critics. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/dir-... #DIRENGREY #Visualkei

BTS and Stray Kids are sitting out the Grammys' first Asian pop award, but Japanese acts have more public campaigns than any other market, with Kenshi Yonezu, BABYMETAL, YOSHIKI, and BE:FIRST among those gunning for a nomination. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/japa... #GRAMMYs #Jpop

Kenshi Yonezu's 'IRIS OUT' has been put forward for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2027 Grammys, where a nomination would be a historic first for Japanese anime. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/kens... #KenshiYonezu #米津玄師 #IRISOUT #GRAMMYs

Crypton has asked fans to respect "each KAITO" after King & Prince’s Kaito Takahashi launched his solo career under the same name as its virtual singer. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/cryp... #KAITO #VOCALOID #KingandPrince

DEVILOOF ended a 20-month wait for new music with 'GAMUROU' featuring Enterprise Earth’s Travis Worland, then Keisuke joined Lorna Shore for 'Prison of Flesh' in Tokyo that same night. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/devi... #DEVILOOF #LornaShore #Deathcore

Anime hitmaker LiSA ended her first Europe tour with a sold-out London debut in September, the finale of a wider 15th-anniversary tour that drew around 100,000 people over 16 dates. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/lisa... #LiSA #LiSA15th #LiSA_EUROPEandUKtour #Anime #Jpop

TuneCore Japan has passed ¥100 billion in payouts to independent artists and labels, as its overseas share tops 20% and CEO Iichiro Noda challenges the idea that streaming doesn't pay. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/tune... #TuneCore #TuneCoreJapan

RAZOR are saying 'I LOVE YOU' with a new single celebrating their 10th anniversary. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/razo... #RAZOR #visualkei

Hoshikuma Minami gets personal on heavy new single 'NOVA', featuring Kenta Koie and co-written with Crystal Lake guitarist YD. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/hosh... #星熊南巫 #HoshikumaMinami #KentaKoie #Metalcore

Kana Nishino, one of Japan's biggest J-pop stars, has gone independent after 18 years with Sony Music Artists and will launch her own management company. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/kana... #KanaNishino #西野カナ #Jpop

Ado will release her cover of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman', which she first performed at SUMMER SONIC, on the second volume of her fan-request 'Utattemita Album' cover series. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/ado-... #Ado #Metallica #Jpop #Metal

After years of being too cold and too hot, Koupen-chan finally gets a day that's just right in GOKUMON's new video 'CHOUDOII' 🐧 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/10/goku... #GOKUMON #打首獄門同好会 #コウペンちゃん #Jrock

BRAHMAN's TOSHI-LOW will undergo surgery for sigmoid colon cancer, with the band pulling out of two Tokyo shows in October while he recovers. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/brah... #BRAHMAN #TOSHILOW #Punk

Tsuzuku's solo project tzkwym enters a miniature gothic world with 'Liminal', a dark electropop track accompanied by the project's first music video. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/tzkw... #tzkwym #visualkei

YOSHIKI says he "couldn’t stop crying" on the flight home from New York after severe weather cancelled Global Citizen Festival, promising fans: "New York, I will be back." 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/yosh... #YOSHIKI #XJAPAN #NYC

GACKT tells fans in Argentina "I've kept you waiting" as YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz confirm a September 2027 return to Latin America. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/gack... #GACKT #YFCz #Visualkei

Ado's agency has warned of legal action over abusive posts amid backlash surrounding her appearance at K-pop event INKIGAYO LIVE in TOKYO, saying it may seek the names and addresses of anonymous posters. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/ado-... #Ado #INKIGAYO #INKIGAYOLIVEINTOKYO #Jpop #Kpop

JoJo fans are telling Netflix to "change the outro" after Yuki Chiba's 'Shinukaikiruka' broke the series' tradition of licensed Western endings. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/yuki... #YukiChiba #千葉雄喜 #SBR #JoJosBizarreAdventure #Anime

Kroi’s JoJo opener 'SPIN' has raced past one million Spotify streams in two days, charting on Genius and US YouTube Music along the way 🏇 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/kroi... #Kroi #Kroi_SPIN #STEELBALLRUN #Anime

THE MOTEL's viral single 'NO' has hit No. 1 on Japan's iTunes Alternative chart as questions grow over whether generative AI was used in its production. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/the-... #THEMOTEL #Jrock #Indie

the GazettE vocalist RUKI remains in hospital after collapsing and losing consciousness, as bandmates KAI and URUHA share updates on his recovery. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/the-... #theGazettE #RUKI #Visualkei

Ado and Sanrio's KUROMI are telling everyone "Hey, don't get in our way!" on their first collaboration 'DND'. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/ado-... #Ado #KUROMI #Jpop #Sanrio

Number_i drop their first EP under Atlantic Records, featuring 'REBON', 'BUGS LIFE', and new single 'DIGITAL GIRL', plus three additional tracks, with Sho Hirano, Yuta Jinguji, and Yuta Kishi producing one apiece. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/numb... #Number_i #Jpop

Electric Callboy have reimagined My Hero Academia's 'You Say Run' for the anime's 10th anniversary after TOHO's music team searched overseas for the right artist. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/elec... #ElectricCallboy #MyHeroAcademia #Anime

XANVALA rise from the grave as their undead alter-egos ZOMVALA in the spooky new music video for 'UNDEAD is BACK', ahead of their three-date Halloween tour. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/xanv... #ZOMVALA #XANVALA #Visualkei

YOSHIKI is receiving treatment after collapsing in the US from excessive fatigue, following weeks of international travel, concerts and appearances. His Global Citizen Festival performance in New York is still scheduled for September 26th. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/yosh... #YOSHIKI #XJAPAN

KAWAII LAB. idols are getting their own trading-card game, with performances replacing battles as players collect members and songs. It lands in summer 2027, with more artists already planned. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/kawa... #KAWAIILAB #Idol #Jpop

NIGHTMARE release their 34th single 'Kyokuyakou', the first song in the band's history with lyrics co-written by three members, as their Japan tour gets underway. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/nigh... #NIGHTMARE #先行情報 #Visualkei

TikTok trend carries monet's year-old SynthV track from 200,000 YouTube views to 10 million in less than four months. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/mone... #monet #SynthesizerV #Vocaloid

Eight years after becoming an ATARASHII GAKKO! fan, AiNA THE END finally joins them as an honorary fifth member on 'Sweet Memories', with RIN calling her take on the choreography "really sexy". 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/atar... #ATARASHIIGAKKO #AiNATHEEND

"Stinky girl band" Zinchikurandan and "four-piece outlaw scumf***" RYUKETSU BLIZZARD join forces for six-track punk split album. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/zinc... #Zinchikurandan #RYUKETSUBLIZZARD #人畜乱弾 #流血ブリザード #Punk

Fujii Kaze will play two solo piano recitals at Tokyo Dome in November, announced on a poster that repeats a flyer from a free pre-debut hometown concert he gave in 2018. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/fuji... #FujiiKaze #藤井風 #ピアノの奇行師 #Jpop

DEZERT have dropped digital single 'Welcome To The End / TOXIC', ahead of venue-exclusive CD 'Alternate4' and their self-titled second major album in October. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/deze... #DEZERT #Visualkei

KIZU will return to Nippon Budokan in February for their final show before partially suspending band activities, announcing the news as a countdown hit zero during their Zepp Haneda encore. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/kizu... #キズ #KIZU #Visualkei

Heat at a Shiga live house left HEY-SMITH’s Shuhei Igari cramping in August, so they’ve sold out a return show to help fund the venue’s air conditioning. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/hey-... #HEYSMITH #Ska #SkaPunk

Former Hitsujibungaku drummer Hiroa Fukuda has opened an X account and is looking for musicians to form a band influenced by shoegaze, post-rock, and alternative rock. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/hiro... #フクダヒロア #Hitsujibungaku #Shoegaze #Postrock

Yukipoyo has taken gyaru to Manila, teaming up with Filipino rapper Zae for a Tagalog remix of her debut single 'Te-Te Gyaru'. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/yuki... #Yukipoyo #Zae #TeTeGyaru #Gyaru #Jpop

Before L'Arc-en-Ciel and T.M.Revolution existed, Takanori Nishikawa and tetsuya nearly became bandmates. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/taka... #TakanoriNishikawa #TMRevolution #LArcenCiel

HALCALI have released 'Guin Guin Guin', their first original song in around 14 years, a day after TikTok named 'Otsukare SUMMER' the number-one Japanese song of summer 2026. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/halc... #HALCALI #おつかれSUMMER #Jpop

Aural Vampire's major debut album 'ZOLTANK' has landed on streaming platforms 16 years after its initial CD release. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/aura... #AuralVampire #オーラルヴァンパイア #Darkwave #Industrial

DEVILOOF have signed to Universal's Virgin Music and announced new single 'Gamurou', promising "heavier, faster, stranger" as they take JAPANESE DEATHCORE global. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/devi... #DEVILOOF #Deathcore #ExtremeMetal

J-DIGS' first UK pop-up drew music fans and record collectors from across Europe, with Nippon Columbia now planning more overseas events as Japanese vinyl demand grows beyond city pop. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/09/japa... #JapaneseMusic #Vinyl #CityPop

YOASOBI's Ikura has news from the Sony Music Japan loos, six months after her bandmate Ayase's toilet paper complaint went viral. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/08/ikur... #Ikura #YOASOBI #Jpop

coldrain bring in Bert McCracken of The Used, a vocalist Masato has called one of his formative influences, on new track 'POISON'. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/08/cold... #coldrain #TheUsed #Metalcore

New visual kei band XILT share debut song 'DYSTOPIA', asking what it means to be V-kei in 2026, ahead of their first live on September 21st. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/08/xilt... #XILT #ジルト #Visualkei

KAWAII LAB. warn fans that event rule breaches could lead to future bans, reports to police, or legal action following recent cases involving dumped CDs and fraudulent entry. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/08/kawa... #KAWAIILAB #Jpop #Idol

Lenny code fiction will release their first EP 'Sekai' on December 2nd, turning frontman Wataru Katagiri's solo travels through 30+ countries into a six-track concept record. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/08/lenn... #Lennycodefiction #Jrock

Tokyo trio wagamama follow June's 'Super Bubble Crush' EP with new September single 'N0 PLAN N0ISE', an anthem for those who don't quite have it together. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/08/waga... #wagamama #Jrock #Jpop

Newspeak return this September with 'Deadman's Constellation', their first single since going independent. The band will also take their new "Port Primal" event to eight cities across Japan from December. 🔗 electricbloomwebzine.com/2026/08/news... #Newspeak #Indie #Rock