BOOM BOOM SATELLITES announces multi-band tour + new album

Rock band BOOM BOOM SATELLITES has just revealed that they will be heading on a five-stop tour through the months of March and April alongside Sakanaction, MAXIMUM THE HORMONE, and 9mm Parabellum Bullet!

The tour, which is titled “BRANDNEW CHAPTER -GARDEN OF DELIGHT-“, will feature performances at five different venues: Fukuoka’s DRUM LOGOS (March 22nd with 9mm Parabellum Bullet), HIROSHIMA CLUB …


Opening & ending theme songs for upcoming drama “QP” announced

Maximum the Hormone

Maximum the Hormone

The opening and ending theme songs for the upcoming drama “QP” have been announced!

Metal band Maximum the Hormone will be providing the opening theme song with “Black ¥ Power G Men Spy“. This song was included in their album, “Bu-ikikaesu“, which was released back in 2007.

Meanwhile, Lenny Kravitz’s song, “Looking Back on Love“, off of his …


‘COUNTDOWN JAPAN 11/12′ confirms dates!

It’s been confirmed that this year’s ‘COUNTDOWN JAPAN 11/12‘ ‘ will be held from December 28th to the 31st. This 4-day event is  an annual holiday celebration, and will be held at the Chiba Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall.

This New Year’s festival started in 2003, and has been attracting bigger names each year. Last year, a total of 162 artists …


Monster Bash 2011 to include Perfume, ONE OK ROCK, and more

The artist lineup and schedule was recently announced for the second year of the open-air festival “MONSTER baSH 2011″, which will be held at Kokuei Sanuki Mannou Kouen Uchishibafu Hiroba in Kagawa from August 20th to the 21st.

The artists being announced this time include back number, Clammbon, Cocco, Hata Motohiro, and Sambomaster performing on the 20th, and ACIDMAN, FACT, KREVA, …


Oricon reveals the latest weekly charts for April 11th

Below is the latest Oricon Weekly Charts for the week of April 11th!


X JAPAN to make Summer Sonic debut!

On August 13th and 14th rock festival “SUMMER SONIC 2011” will take place in Makuhari and Osaka. This festival features rock artists from all over the world and they’ve just announced two new groups in their 5th addition. X JAPAN, making it their SUMMER SONIC debut and party band ZEBRAHEAD.

It will be one year since X JAPAN has performed at …


Oricon Weekly Charts for April 4th revealed!

The Oricon Weekly Charts for the week of April 4th have just been revealed!

This week, MAXIMUM THE HORMONE achieved their first #1 on Oricon with the single, “Greatest The Hits 2011~2011″, while KARA’s DVD, “KARA BEST CLIPS”, made an impressive return to the top position of the music DVD chart.

Check out the top five for each category below!


MAXIMUM THE HORMONE get first #1 single since debut

After 11 years, rock band MAXIMUM THE HORMONE finally hit #1 on the Oricon charts with their 9th single, “Greatest The Hits 2011~2011“.

The single was released on March 23rd and has sold 81,000 units in the first week, placing them #1 for the first time in their history. The band debuted back in August 2000 and has never …


Narimiya Hiroki & Maximum The Hormone participate in new CM for “Stride”

Kraft Foods Japan released a new CM for “Stride” gum recently titled, “Evolution – Rock”. Narimiya Hiroki is participating as the lead actor in the CM.

The CM shows that through the long-lasting flavor of Stride, Narimiya evolves from a monkey into a human, a member of Maximum the Hormone to be exact. The CM ends with the group head banging …


Maximum the Hormone’s Nao gets maternity magazine column

After several months on hiatus, punk-metal group Maximum the Hormone are starting to get back into the swing of things. New mom Nao even has an interesting side project!

Last November, the group announced that drummer Nao was pregnant and were forced to cancel all their shows and go on hiatus until she was ready to continue work.  In …


Rockin’ in Hokkaido

This year Hokkaido will be home of the “RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL 2010 in EZO” on 8/13-8/14 at the Tarukawa Wharf of Ishikari Bay New Port.

Every year Hokkaido hosts this great “outdoor event” and by outdoor they mean camping. Yes this means if you want to go, you can camp and barbecue and enjoy great music from an array of …