X Japan Cancels Paris, Again (jrocknyc)
X-Japan changes (and blows) like the wind (Japanator)
X Japan postpones concerts again, changes plans (Tokyograph)

For those of you not following this thing before today, here’s a summary: big important rock group X JAPAN disbanded in 1997, got back together earlier this year for some concerts, failed to perform at all the concerts after their drummer passed out on top of his equipment–there was some whole big deal about that, too, which we won’t get into–and consequently rescheduled some concerts starting with a performance in Paris. All caught up? Good.

The news has broken that the group has yet again backed out of performances–not just the one in Paris, which would have taken place on the 22nd of this month, but also those scheduled for the rest of the year. Now they’re setting up a bigger and better tour next year. This obviously is not reflecting well on the band, and the general tone in blog entries about the rescheduling could probably be described as “annoyed.” Tokyograph has the news as usual, for those of you wanting the details, but Japanator and jrocknyc are not ones to sit around idly without making a comment. Go’s pointing fingers at Yoshiki…

One begins to wonder if Yoshiki was always a fuck up, and it’s just the free flow of information on the internet that is making that fact clearer now.

… while Zac is just tired of the whole deal altogether.

Pull it together and suck it up guys! This is rock and roll, not a fashion show!

Let’s hope that this doesn’t end in another last-minute cancellation, because I’m not sure X JAPAN fans–yes, even the hardcore ones–will be willing to keep planning trips to France only to get there and find out, oh, right, no concert.