📅 What’s On! Japanese Music in Europe There’s plenty to enjoy when it comes to Japanese music in Europe this August! Don’t have any plans for this month yet and want to know what’s on? Be inspired by our round-up of Japanese music in Europe for August 2026. avo-magazine.com/en/2026/08/w...

📅Tour News Melodic hardcore and skate punk band STONE LEEK to return to Europe for another extensive summer tour in August and September avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/s... #AVOMagazine #StoneLeek #MusicFromJapan #EuropeanTour

STONE LEEK to return to Europe for another extensive summer tour

Kyoto-based melodic hardcore and skate punk band STONE LEEK will return to Europe for a tour in August and September. The quartet worked hard to organise a full-scale tour through Europe…

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Music Playlist Update: New Music Encounters from Japan (Week 28, 2026) New additions: 🍙 AoAu 🍙 シーサイドスー。(Seaside Suu) 🍙 Spit lulu's 🍙 Podenco 🍙 She Side Ship --- www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... --- Enjoy the music! #AVOMagazine #JapaneseMusic #NewMusic #YouTubeMusic

💬NEW INTERVIEW With a new UK tour on the horizon for Mikabomb, it was finally time to have a chat with the pop-punk band’s founder, Mika Handa. We discussed the band’s past, present and future. avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/i... #AVOMagazine #Mikabomb #JapaneseMusic #PopPunk ✍🏻 Peter Dennis

Interview: A chat with Mika Handa about the past, present and future of Mikabomb

The word “pioneer” is an overused term in music, but when it comes to Mikabomb’s founder and lead vocalist Mika Handa, it is perfectly apt. When she arrived in the United Kingdom in 1998 with the…

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📅Tour News Psychedelic rock band Hibushibire will return to Europe with a new tour and brand-new fifth studio album titled 'Phantom Fuzzy Exotica' avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/h... #AVOMagazine #Hibushibire #JapaneseRock #EuropeanTour

📅Tour News The four-piece pop-punk band Mikabomb will kick off their new UK tour in a few days, returning to the stages of the Moseley Punk Festival and the Rebellion Festival avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/m... #AVOMagazine #Mikabomb #JapanesePopPunk #UKTour

Mikabomb will soon kick off new summer tour in the United Kingdom

The four-piece pop-punk band Mikabomb made a comeback on the live scene last year, touring the United Kingdom and Japan, as well as performing in the Netherlands. At the end of this month…

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🎤 NEW LIVE REPORT Hibushibire at The Victoria: "The mesmerising nature of the band’s sound alters the very fabric of time, reducing minutes to moments and stretching seconds into eternity." avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/l... #AVOMagazine #Hibushibire #LiveReport ✍🏻Peter Dennis 📷 JJ Grant

Live Report: Freak Out Jams With Hibushibire at The Victoria

One of the few buildings in Birmingham city centre to escape the craze of modernism in the 1960’s, where the beautiful buildings were torn down only to be replaced by brutalist monstrosities…

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🎟️ GIVEAWAY We are currently hosting a giveaway on our Facebook and Instagram pages. You can win tickets for HYPER JAPAN Festival 2026 avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/g... #AVOMagazine #HYPERJAPAN #Giveaway #JapaneseMusic #JapaneseCulture

Giveaway: Win tickets for HYPER JAPAN Festival 2026

In less than two weeks, the 2026 edition of HYPER JAPAN Festival will kick off at the Olympia London, with three days packed with activities centred on Japanese culture. The UK’s biggest Japanese…

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Music Playlist Update: New Music Encounters from Japan (Weeks 26 & 27, 2026) New additions: 🍙 and take naps. 🍙 arcanaria 🍙 どっちつかズ (Dochitsukaz) 🍙 muk 🍙 Nao Katafuchi 🍙 Sar mo waits 🍙 mmm (me-my-mo) 🍙 ar syura --- www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... --- #AVOMagazine #JapaneseMusic #NewMusic

📅 What’s On! July is now underway and we’re right in the middle of the festival season, with plenty of Japanese music acts ready to tour Europe. Be inspired by our round-up of Japanese music in Europe for July 2026. avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/w... #AVOMagazine #JapaneseMusic #EventCalendar

📅Tour News Blackgaze hardcore band kokeshi will tour Europe for the first time avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/k... #AVOMagazine #kokeshi #Blackgaze #JapaneseMetal #EuropeanTour

Kokeshi to tour Europe for the first time

Kokeshi, a Tokyo-based blackgaze hardcore band influenced by Japanese horror, will be touring Europe for the first time. What began as the announcement of a single gig in Italy has grown into a tour…

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📅Tour News Later this month, four-piece band Ni-hao!!!! will bring cheer punk from Japan to Europe with a tour avo-magazine.com/en/2026/07/n... #AVOMagazine #NiHao #JapanesePunk #EuropeanTour

Ni-hao!!!! to bring cheer punk from Japan to Europe with a tour

Four-piece cheer punk band Ni-hao!!!! will tour Europe later this month, in July. The European tour will kick off at Valkhof Festival in Nijmegen and consist of 12 shows in six countries.

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📅Tour News Traditional Japanese instrument punk ensemble Seppuku Pistols will tour Europe in July avo-magazine.com/en/2026/06/s... #AVOMagazine #SeppukuPistols #JapanesePunk #EuropeanTour

Seppuku Pistols to tour Europe in July

Following a handful of gigs in London and Bristol in 2024 and performances in Paris in 2025, Seppuku Pistols, known for their energetic performances that blend the spirit of punk with traditional…

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📅Tour News Rock quartet SPYAIR will return to Europe for a tour in autumn 2026 avo-magazine.com/en/2026/06/s... #AVOMagazine #SPYAIR #JapaneseRock #EuropeanTour

Music Playlist Update: New Music Encounters from Japan (Weeks 24 & 25, 2026) New additions: 🍙 白い犬 (shiroiinu) 🍙 マリースメック (Marie Smeck) 🍙 久遠 (Kuon) 🍙 揺らいで凪 (Yuraide Nagi) 🍙 毛布留学 (Mofu Ryugaku) 🍙 MĀRAJAQK 🍙 hiragi no --- www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... --- #AVOMagazine #JapaneseMusic

📅Tour News Anisong singers mpi, Diana Garnet and Kota Shinzato are set to perform in three German cities as part of ‘Summer of Japanese Music 2026’ avo-magazine.com/en/2026/06/m... #AVOMagazine #mpi #DianaGarnet #KotaShinzato #Anisong

📅Tour News Singer-songwriter Upiko goes across the oceans for her first European tour avo-magazine.com/en/2026/06/u... #AVOMagazine #Upiko #JapaneseMusic #SingerSongwriter #EuropeanTour

Upiko goes across the oceans for her first European tour

Powerful vocalist and guitarist Upiko will be returning to Europe as part of her Upirise tour. The European leg of the tour will start with a visit to Japan Expo in France on the 9th of July.

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📅Tour News Four-piece brass band MOS will embark on their first European tour next month avo-magazine.com/en/2026/06/m... #AVOMagazine #MOS #BrassBand #MusicFromJapan #EuropeanTour

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Music Playlist Update: New Music Encounters from Japan (Weeks 22 & 23, 2026) --- New additions: 🍙 yoei 🍙 Niiiya 🍙 加藤花 (Hana Kato) 🍙 glamscure 🍙 その感激と記録 (sono kangeki to kiroku) 🍙 SAMOEDO --- www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... --- #AVOMagazine #JapaneseMusic #YouTubeMusic #NewMusic

📅Tour News Indie rock band DYGL will be touring Europe for the first time in a long while. The tour starts this coming weekend at Best Kept Secret Festival avo-magazine.com/en/2026/06/d... #AVOMagazine #DYGL #JapaneseRock #EuropeanTour

DYGL will be touring Europe for the first time in a long while

Indie rock band DYGL are returning to Europe for a tour for the first time in a long while. The tour kicks off on 14 June at the Best Kept Secret Festival in Hilvarenbeek. The band will also play two…

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📅Tour News JILUKA shared tour dates for the European leg of DeViLs World Tour 2026 avo-magazine.com/en/2026/06/j... #AVOMagazine #JILUKA #JapaneseMetal #VisualKei #EuropeanTour

JILUKA shared tour dates for European leg of DeViLs World Tour 2026

In September, visual kei metal band JILUKA will return to Europe for the fourth time in recent years for a new tour as part of their world tour entitled DeViLs, named after their latest digital single...

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📅Tour News Experimental progressive rock band Green Milk From The Planet Orange will tour Europe for the second time in 2026, with the tour kicking off at the end of June avo-magazine.com/en/2026/06/g... #AVOMagazine #gmftpo #ProgressiveRock #MusicFromJapan #EuropeanTour

Green Milk From The Planet Orange to tour Europe for the second time in 2026

At the end of this month, the band Green Milk From The Planet Orange will return to Europe for a summer tour. The experimental progressive rock band were already on tour on the European continent in…

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🎤 NEW LIVE REPORT Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs at The Hare And Hounds: "It all comes down to band chemistry; the three members share a sixth sense which verges on telepathy, and they handle all the time changes with apparent ease." avo-magazine.com/en/2026/05/l... ✍🏻 Peter Dennis 📷 JJ Grant

📅Tour News Visual kei artists Seth, Kouki and Tsukasa will come to London for a fan meeting and overseas live debut as Sakura Zensen avo-magazine.com/en/2026/05/s... #AVOMagazine #SakuraZensen #VisualKei #JapaneseMusic #London

Seth, Kouki and Tsukasa to London for fan meeting and overseas live debut as Sakura Zensen

In October, three visual kei musicians, Seth (Moi dix Mois), Kouki (D=OUT) and Tsukasa (THE MICRO HEAD 4N’S), will be coming to London for an exclusive performance and fan meeting organised by Visual…

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📅Tour News Yasuharu Takanashi’s Far East Groove set to tour Europe for the second time avo-magazine.com/en/2026/05/y... #AVOMagazine #YasuharuTakanashi #FarEastGroove #EuropeanTour #JapaneseMetal

Yasuharu Takanashi’s Far East Groove set to tour Europe for the second time

Composer and keyboardist Yasuharu Takanashi, known for his work on anime soundtracks such as Naruto Shippuden and Fairy Tail, has announced that he will be touring Europe again with his project Far…

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Music Playlist Update: New Music Encounters from Japan (Weeks 20 & 21, 2026) ------------------- New additions: 🍙 Risky Melody 🍙 Blufog 🍙 Tattletale 🍙 晩年 🍙 セツナフレンド 🍙 岩崎桃子 🍙 Akari Kiki ------------------- www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #AVOMagazine #JapaneseMusic #YouTubeMusic #NewMusic

📅Tour News Super Jet Kinoko are gearing up for their third European tour: Shroomy Parade 2026 avo-magazine.com/en/2026/05/s... #AVOMagazine #SuperJetKinoko #MusicFromJapan #EuropeanTour

Super Jet Kinoko are gearing up for their third European tour: Shroomy Parade 2026

Super Jet Kinoko are gearing up for their third European tour, which will also be their biggest to date. The new wave trance band will be touring for almost the entire month of June with their brand…

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📅Tour News Alternative metal band Esprit D’Air announced a new tour in the United Kingdom for 2027 avo-magazine.com/en/2026/05/e... #AVOMagazine #EspritDAir #JapaneseMetal #UKTour

Esprit D’Air announce new United Kingdom tour for 2027

This week, alternative metal band Esprit D’Air announced a new tour in the United Kingdom, during which the band will visit several cities they haven’t performed in for some time.

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📅Tour News Rock duo Moja will return to Europe for a tour in June, with performances at the Oerol Festival, Botanique Festival, and Fusion Festival avo-magazine.com/en/2026/05/h... #AVOMagazine #Moja #JapaneseRock #EuropeanTour

Hungry Again: Moja to return to Europe for a tour in June

Following their European tour last year, the rock duo Moja seem to have developed a taste for it. The pair will be returning in June, kicking things off at the Oerol site-specific arts festival on the...

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