Happiness, a dance unit made up of six middle school aged girls, is finally ready to make their major label debut, with the single “Kiss Me“, on February 9th.
The group has close ties with the male idols, EXILE, and served as their backup dancers on their recent dome tour, and they also appeared in the 2009 Mister Donuts CM. Happiness’ debut …
Idol group SKE48 has announced their 5th single, “Banzai Venus,” will be released on March 9th.
The announcement came today at their Nagoya Garden Futou event for their most recent single, “1! 2! 3! 4! Yoroshiku!“ SKE48 held a special handshake event with their fans to celebrate the release of the new song, and the meeting was the final …
From March 19th through the 21st at the Kanagawa Misaki High School, the “Rock no Gakuen 2011” music festival will be held, and they have just added even more artists to their lineup.
New announcements on this round of guests were the bands HY, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, and GREAT TEACHERS, all of whom will perform in the gymnasium. The …
Rock group avengers in sci-fi have announced that they will be holding a very special one man live show at the Tokyo Shin-kiba STUDIO COAST on February 19th.
Besides it being a solo act that will focus solely on the band, they will also be celebrating the release of their new song, “El Planeta/Death.” The catch is that the new CD …
As we previously reported, dance/rock group POLYSICS will be dropping their new album, “Oh! No! It’s Heavy Polysick!!!,” on March 9th, and they have just revealed the interesting cover art for the release.
The album is covered with images of the group members hidden among many of their close staff members. Everyone is wearing the trademark POLYSICS …
Earlier, we revealed that Aqua Timez was going to release a new single titled “Mayonaka no Orchestra” on January 26th. For fans who wanted to know more about the different editions that would be available, we’ve got the information down below!
“Mayonaka no Orchestra” will be released in the standard ‘CD Regular’ edition, and the ‘DVD Limited First …
Rock band Chirinuruwowka has recently reunited and resumed their activities, releasing the song “White Hall” today on January 12th.
Chirinuruwowowaka was originally formed as a side project by GO!GO!7188’s lead vocalist and guitarist, Yuu. She was joined by Miyashita Haruhito on guitar, Eikichi Iwai on bass, and Abe Kousaku (THE COLLECTORS) on drums. They released their last single, “Shingetsu,” back in 2006, …
Electronic duo capsule has announced that they will be releasing their first album of 2011 on March 9th.
The duo, made up of renown producer & DJ Nakata Yasutaka and singer Koshijima Toshiko, has remained quiet for the past year and has not released anything new since their 2010 album, “PLAYER.”
Their new album, as of now untitled, will continue …
Dance/rock group POLYSICS has announced that they will be releasing their first full original album in over a year, “Oh! No! It’s Heavy Polysick!!!“, on March 9th.
The last work they released was the mini album “eee-P!!!” back in December, but this will be the first full album with the new three person lineup. They plan to carry on with the …
Rock band SuG recently dropped their new single “Crazy Bunny Coaster“, and on January 11th they held a special release event at the Tokyo Suidoubashi Laqua Garden Stage. The band performed in front of their fans and announced to the happy crowd that they would be releasing a new album, “Thrill Ride Pirates,” on March 9th.
SuG kicked off …
Pop singer hitomi has announced that she will be releasing her new single, “Umarete Kurete Arigatou/Smile World“, on February 16th.
This will be her first release in a year and eight months since her “LOVE LIFE 2” album that made waves with its cover of her naked during her pregnancy. The single will be a double A-side that features …
Hip-hop trio SOUL’d OUT has announced that they will be embarking on a nationwide tour in April called, “neck n’ neck SO long.”
This is the first tour in about three years for the group, and they recently reunited on stage at the November 20th-21st “BEAT CONNECTION” urban music festival, which acted as a restart to their live event appearances. The …
R&B vocalist May J. is set to release her new album, “Colors“, on January 26th.
The album features a large amount of collaborations with other Japanese urban artists. Rapper Zeebra will be working with Nanba Akihiro on the track “ONE MORE KISS“, and the song was produced and written by Kubota Toshinobu, who wrote the lyrics and chorus to …
As previously announced, rock group L’arc~en~Ciel will be celebrating their 20th anniversary by releasing a trio of best albums called “TWENITY 1991-1996,” “TWENITY 1997-1999,” and “TWENITY 2000-2010,” on February 16th, followed by a box, “TWENITY BOX,” on March 9th. Fans who have been waiting to see what the best albums contain have been granted their wish, as …
Fujiwara Norika, star of the 2009 NHK drama series “Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite“, will be stepping aside to let new talent reprise her role in the film version of the series. This time around, the cast for the drama will be Miyazaki Aoi and Sakai Masato co-starring as a married couple. The director working on the project …
