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Aion February 21, 2011

rothbartbaron

… you listen to a song that immediately embraces you. Recently I received ROTH BART BARON’s debut EP, but didn’t get the chance to listen to it. I finally did, better said, I’m still listening to it now, or even better yet, I’m still on my first listen. The second song however is really one [...]

thecabs

Indie-band the cabs is one of the new revelations on the well-known zankyo-label. Today, the alternative rock-band has announced they will release their first mini-album April 13. The mini-album, 一番はじめの出来事, contains 5 new song that weren’t before on their demo or on the zankyo record-compilation album. You can already listen to one of the five [...]

plenty2011

Rockband plenty has announced they will release a new single in May. The untitled single will contain three new songs and will go on sale on May 11. The band also announced that they will hold a liveshow with andymori on March 21. More news will be posted when available.

beatmotors

ザ・ビートモーターズ (The Beatmotors) have released their new videoclip to promote their upcoming album The First Cut Is The Sweetest, which will be out on March 2. The song featured in this clip is ちくちくちく, which is the second song on that album. This will be their first major album after releasing two mini-albums in 2009 [...]

whitewhitesisters

The electronic duo white white sisters have announced they will release a new album. The new album currently has no title or an exact date, but it will be released sometime in June. The band has released their first album. [euphoriaofeuphobia], in July. More details will follow.

anothersunnyday

Two members of ストレイテナー (STRAIGHTENER) have announced they have formed a band with the former serial TV drama-vocalist 伊藤文暁 (Ito Fumiaki). Drummer ナカヤマシンペイ (Nakayama Shinpei) and guitarist 大山純 (Ooyama Jun) have joined forces with the vocalist and added bass-player 美登一 (Mito Ichi) from THE RODS to form the band another sunnyday. They also announced that [...]

naomipoco

ナオミーポコ (naomi-poco), the solo-project of pezite’s vocalist ナオミ (naomi), has finally opened her MySpace-page. It’s been an empty link for a long time on her official homepage, but now it finally links to a page on which we can listen to three samples of her upcoming album アダムとロビィ which will be released on March 16. [...]

New MTH on March 23

Aion February 7, 2011

greatesttheits

MAXIMUM THE HORMONE has just announced their new single GREATEST THE HITS 2011-2011 contains three brand new songs and will go on sale on March 23. You can view the tracklist and coverart after the jump.

nomuratakashi

As if seven members weren’t enough already, NATSUMEN has announced they added another member to their line-up. 野村卓史 (Nomura Takashi) of グッドラックヘイワ (Good Luck Heiwa) has been officially added to the ranks of NATSUMEN. The keyboard-player already played with the band during their shows in December. Fans of NATSUMEN living in Canada, keep an eye [...]

MTH back with new single

Aion February 4, 2011

MTH

After a long, long, long time of silence, MAXIMUM THE HORMONE is finally back with a new single. Fans of the band might be surprised when they get to hear see the videoclip for this new single, as it really shows a different side of MTH. At the end of the clip we also get [...]