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ATARASHII GAKKO! in London: an electric debut from Japan’s youth leaders

June 10, Indigo at The O2: Showcasing material from new album ‘AG! Calling’, the J-pop ambassadors bring sharp choreography, hip-hop swagger and punk spirit to their first London show

Clockenflap 2023 recap: YOASOBI, Caroline Polachek, Pulp and more shine in Hong Kong

Returning after a four-year break earlier this March, Hong Kong’s premier music festival is finally back in its familiar end-of-year slot. NME brings you a highlight reel of this edition’s coolest moments

Subsonic Eye – ‘All Around You’ review: Singapore indie rockers fend off urban alienation

The quintet greet the anxieties of adulthood and refine their sensitive brand of indie rock with conviction on their fourth album and Topshelf Records debut

YOASOBI: the “ultimate J-pop unit” faces the world

With record-breaking hits including ‘Idol’ and ‘Into The Night’, iconic anime theme songs and an immersive literary outlook, YOASOBI have rocketed to the forefront of Japanese music – and are more than ready to take on the world

No Party For Cao Dong – ‘The Clod’ review: generation-defining Taiwanese indie rockers return with clouded catharsis

Devastated by the death of their drummer Fan Tsai, the quartet return with their second album – their first full-length in seven years

pH-1 announces ticketing details for ‘About Damn Time’ Asia tour

Hitting stops in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong

One Click Straight announce sophomore album

The self-titled follow-up to ‘The Midnight Emotion’ arrives later next week

Legendary Cantopop composer Joseph Koo has died

The Hong Kong composer wrote over 1,000 tracks for TV, films like ‘A Better Tomorrow’ and Bruce Lee's ‘Fist Of Fury’, and hits by Cantopop megastars including Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung

Robert Plant and Ronnie James Dio weren’t “great frontmen”, says Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider

Plant “looked amazing, great hair…stood on stage with one hand raised and sang his ass off. Not a frontman in my opinion,” the Twisted Sister frontman said
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