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New mini-album by inspire:tion

Shoegaze band inspire:tion has announced they will release a new mini-album on February 5. The mini-album will be called 残像 LOOP SHOW and contains 6 brand new songs. It will be their first release after their album 小さな世界とシェルターボーイ, which was released on March 10, 2010. More information about the tracklist or pricing hasn’t been announced [...]

tacica back in action

Aion January 2, 2011

tacica

After being hospitalized for several months due to a tumor, tacica’s drummer 坂井俊彦 (Sakai Toshihiko) is finally back in action. The rock band announced they will release a new single on March 16, almost a year after their latest EP. 命の更新 contains two songs (命の更新 and 贅沢な蠟燭) and will come in a regular and a [...]

killingboy

木下理樹 (Kinoshita Riki, vocals/guitar) of ART-SCHOOL and former ART-SCHOOL bassist 日向秀和 (Hinata Hidekazu, now in STRAIGHTENER and Nothing’s Carved in Stone) have announced they are back together to form a new band. killing boy, as the band will be called, features further more 伊東真一 (Shinichi Ito, guitar) from HINTO and ex-Sparta Locals and the Nothing’s [...]

[PV] オシリペンペンズ – 女の裸

A few weeks back I already informed you about the new label by こんがりおんがく (Oshiri Penpenz), DODDODO and Mori from neco眠る (neco nemuru). In that same item, I noticed the new release by こんがりおんがく. This EP, NEW ME, was released yesterday on that label and accompanying that release, they released a video of 女の裸 (onna [...]

flip

After four mini-albums and a major debut, it’s time for the all-girl band FLiP to release their first maxi-single. カートニアゴ will be released on February 23 and will be the opening-theme for the anime series Gintama. More information will be revealed later on.

ivory7chord

野田剛史 (Tsuyoshi Noda) has announced he will leave ivory7 chord by the end of this year. The last live the bassist and vocalist of the band will attend is in the Shinjuku ACB HALL on December 22. The reason behind him leaving the band is that he was out of creative ideas and he thought [...]

winnie

Alternative rock-band winnie has announced they will release a new album on February 2. Synchronized will feature five unreleased songs. In promotion of this new release, the band will tour Japan during February, March and April doing 23 shows. The album itself will go on sale for 1575 yen. For the complete tracklist, check after [...]

dirtyoldmen

Just a few weeks ago Dirty old men announced they will release a new single on January 19 2011. Today, the band has announced they release a new album two weeks later. GUIDANCE will be in stores on February 2 and features the new single 約束の唄 and Time Machine Music from their latest mini-album release. [...]

myvwhatsname2

A total of 15 brand new and upcoming bands have worked together compiling a great new omnibus album called 36.5 ℃. For example bands as SuiseiNoboAz, THE UNIQUE STAR, 0.8秒と衝撃。and ハイスイノナサ worked together to get this release ready for January 19 next year. The album contains 15 songs and will go on sale for 2300 [...]

koukakurui

Jazz-rock band 甲殻類 (koukakurui) has announced they will be releasing a new album on February 25, 2011. So far only the title of the album has been made official. 明日を will be the bands third release, after their debut album 美しき赤 in March 2010, and the live-only single 天下布武 in June this year.