When Ebisu-based streetwear brand Devilock decided to call it a day at the end of last year, it also meant bringing the curtain down on the company's annual music fest. Always a far rockier prospect than the misleadingly titled Rock in Japan, Devilock Night also does a better job of joining the dots between Japan's past and present guitar wranglers, meaning that you'll see '90s staples like Cocobat, Hellbent and Bloodthirsty Butchers alongside newcomers including Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas and Okamoto's. And there's no disputing the calibre of a lineup that includes such surefire crowd pleasers as Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, 10-Feet, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, Maximum The Hormone, Brahman... we could go on, but here's the complete bill:
Feb 25
Abnormals, Back Drop Bomb, The Back Horn, Black Buck, Bloodthirsty Butchers, Brahman, Cocobat, Cokehead Hipsters, Dustbox, Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas, Frontier Backyard, Garlicboys, Toru Hidaka, Hige, Husking Bee, Knotlamp, Kuroneko Chelsea, Low IQ 101 & Master Low, Man With a Mission, Marsas Sound Machine, Maximum The Hormone, Milk Cow, Monobright, Mo'some Tonebender, Mucc, Akihiro Namba, One OK Rock, Rize, Sokabe Keiichi Band, 10-Feet, Totalfat, Wrestling Crime Master
Feb 26
Acidman, Balzac, Base Ball Bear, The Bawdies, Beyonds, The Birthday, Coldrain, Dohatsuten, Envy, Hellbent, The Hiatus, Fumio Ito, Kaikigesshoku, Kamomekamome, Locofrank, The Mackshow, Mongol800, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, Nothing's Carved in Stone, Okamoto's, Orange Range, Pay Money to My Pain, Radiots, Sobut, Special Others, Straightener, Te', Toe, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Unison Square Garden, Wagdug Futuristic Unity, Wrench, YamaArashi