X Japan Archive

YOSHIKI And KISS Collaborate for New Year’s Eve Television Performance

Anastasia Giggins | December 28, 2019

Japanese rock star YOSHIKI will team up with American rock legends KISS for a once-in-a-lifetime television performance on Japan’s NHK network. The artists will appear together as YOSHIKISS during the New Year’s Eve Kouhaku Uta Gassen, the most-watched

Interviews

Yoshiki from X Japan talks about the new music documentary WE ARE X

Kat Czornij | March 20, 2016

Japanese rock band X Japan have had a tumultuous and downright devastating career. Plagued by the subsequent deaths of band members, the band led by Yoshiki, soldiers on and still find

Film Reviews

SXSW 2016 Film Review: WE ARE X (UK/Japan, 2016)

Kat Czornij | March 20, 2016

It must be said before I review this documentary that I know little to nothing about rock ‘n roll. But what compelled me to watch this documentary was

Industry News

X Japan member Yoshiki to appear and perform at SXSW 2016

Johnny Au | March 9, 2016

X Japan member Yoshiki is set to appear at SXSW 2016 to premiere the award-winning documentary We Are X, which chronicles his legendary Japanese rock act.