X Japan

In case you missed it, Yoshiki also recently released a collaboration with St. Vincent.

plus Lucius ft. Jim James, Jesse Malin w/ Butch Walker and Willie Nile, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Helado Negro, Molly Sarlé, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

X Japan brought out Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland during weekend one of Coachella, and as promised, they had another special guest for weekend two - Marilyn Manson.

If X Japan overlap with Beychella again like they did at weekend one, that conflict just got a little tougher.

The two weekends of Coachella happen April 13 - 15 and April 20 - 22.

SXSW is a month away, and while most of the coverage on this site has been about the music portion, there is also the Film Festival which happens March 11 - 19...

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival kicked off last week in Park City, Utah. I was there for a few days this weekend and, while I got to see a bunch of good movies (Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By the Sea, Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship, and Antonio Campos's Christine being my highlights), one film of particular interest to BV readers is the new documentary We Are X, which premiered at the fest and is about the incredibly successful Japanese metal band X Japan...

The lineup has been announced for 2016 Sundance Film Festival, which happens January 21-31 in Park City, Utah. As usual, the lineup of in-competition films ranges from extremely serious and topical (not one but two films about the on-air suicide of news reporter Christine Chubbuck), to the extremely silly (a movie about frat-bro revenge starring Nick Jonas, a Kevin Smith/Jonny Depp movie called Yoga Hosers)...

Long-running heavy metallers/visual kei stylists X Japan are returning to the United States for a special engagement at Madison Square Garden on October 11...

"The 2010 Lollapalooza line-up is official: Soundgarden, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, and Phoenix will headline, joined by Social Distortion, MGMT, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Chip, and The Black Keys...