The EMI Music Japan label will be holding a large scale concert event at the Saitama Arena on November 6th to celebrate their 50th year in music. The event, “EMI ROCKS,” will have many of their popular artists including ACIDMAN, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, Straightener, HIFANA, Tokyo Jihen, Baseball Bear, and MIYAVI in celebration of the momentous occasion.
In addition to holding …
Japanese hip-hop group RIP SLYME is set to release their 15th anniversary best album, “GOOD TIMES,” at the beginning of August, but they certainly don’t want to do it the old fashioned way. The group announced that they would be doing a very unique campaign for the release.
All over Japan they will be setting up QR codes (dot …
Popular girl idol group, AKB48, has just announced that they will be starring in a new television show for NTV titled “AKB600sec.“ As the name implies, each episode will only run for ten short minutes and will focus on a singular member of the group. The show will follow around the chosen idol in her normal …
Japanese retro-rock group Superfly has hit the 300,000 download mark for their new song “Tamashii Revolution” in just eleven short days. The song was being used as the promotional theme song for the World cup on NHK network, which helped to create a lot of hype over its release; one that came well timed on the 18th, the day before …
Trendsetting pop singer ICONIQ recently updated her website with a teaser clip of her new single “TOKYO LADY.“ The single is set for release on August 11th and will only contain the title track and an instrumental version. “TOKYO LADY” has been selected as the commercial song for MAQuillAGE makeup and also for the ads for the 2010 A-Nation concert.
The …
Japanese R&B singer Aoyama Thelma has just announced the release of a best album made entirely of collaborations she has done with other singers. This collaboration album will be the second collection of this kind for Aoyama and will be titled “LOVE! 2 -THELMA BEST COLLABORATIONS-.“ It will include everything from her song “Fall in Love” with BIG BANG’s SOL …
Perfume has demonstrated that they really have hit the big time by announcing their first ever live event at the Tokyo Dome. They will do a single performance on November 3rd by the amusing name of “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11.“ This is by far the largest scale event the Japanese electro-pop group has …
Japanese jazz/rock group, Tokyo Jihen, has been selected to sing the theme song to the new police drama “Atami no Sousakan.” The band was chosen to create the theme due to the immense popularity of Shiina Ringo with the staff. Tokyo Jihen’s song will be called “Tengoku he Youkoso” and is described as perfectly fitting the drama and tension of …
A giant scandal blew up last week as Ex-WINK pop duo member Sachiko Suzuki announced her sudden retirement from show business when Japanese magazine Shunkan Bunshun published a story about her sordid relationship. The article said that she confessed to having an affair with younger, married actor Tsuda Eisuke. Shortly after the article was published she apologized on …
Virginian anime convention, Anime USA, has announced Japanese Visual Kei band 12012 as one of their guests of honor. The band hasn’t performed in America in several years and this marks their first live event there since Anime Next in 2007. 12012 has been active for almost seven years now and this appearance will nicely fall after their …
Girl idol group Buono! will be releasing “The Best Buono!” collection on August 10th. This will be the first best album for the group and will be available in a deluxe three disc collection and regular single disc edition.
The first disc of the limited edition will bring together all the hit singles from their three years in Hello!Project, while disc …
June 25th marked the anniversary of the death of seminal pop musician, Michael Jackson. The entire world has been mourning the loss of the superstar, and Japan was no exception. Zepp Tokyo sponsored a special live event with MUSIC ON! television network and Japanese R&B star, AI, to have a special screening of a new program called “AI …
Since late last year, activities have been quiet for Japanese Visual-Kei group, The GazettE. Yet fans are finding the wait quite worth their while as the group will be coming back with a new single on July 21st in three special editions. The upcoming release, “SHIVER,” will be the band’s first since their record label switch to Sony Music and it will act as the opening theme to the second season of the gothic anime Kuroshitsuji(Black Butler). The single will contain three tracks, the title track “SHIVER,” “HESITATING MEANS DEATH,” and “Naraku.”
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