BAND-MAID has just released their latest digital single, Shambles, just in time for the second half of their North American 10th Anniversary tour.
LOVEBITES' newest album, "Judgement Day," releases on February 22. The band will have a special live-streamed premiere session the day prior on February 21! You'll be able to listen to the album alongside the band and chat with them.
A few days ago, Queen Bee was announced for Washington's premiere anime convention, Sakuracon. Today, word of a stand-alone concert spread. The location will be Los Angeles's Regent Theater in downtown Los Angeles and will take place on April 11.
Crunchyroll Expo's 2022 edition features a slightly different musical format than last time. Instead of a concert with a separate ticket purchase, they have decided to make it all-inclusive with your badge. They've just announced BURNOUT SYNDROMES as one of the headliners of the New Cruncy City Music Fest.
bilibili, China's largest streaming site, has just announced a streaming event featuring some of Japan's top anison artists. The event is titled "BILIBILI MACRO LINK - STAR PHASE" and will take place on July 17
An event you may not have heard of is the Tokyo International Music Market. TIMM is currently in its 17th year and geared more towards those in the industry but that doesn't mean consumers can't appreciate what it has to offer. TIMM will be held this November 4-6.
Everyone's favorite band of wolves will hold a 10th anniversary live stream straight from ZEPP TOKYO on 8/29/20. It's titled "MAN WITH A 'REBOOT LIVE & STREAMING' MISSION."
One of Japan's premiere summer music festivals, a-nation, is set to kick off in less than a day. a-nation has traded their in-person version for a set of five online streams. Fans can choose from either a paid ticket which includes three different streams or two free ones. The free ones are being held on avex's YouTube and LINE channels.
Featuring stops in Chicago, Los Angeles, Anaheim and Mexico, all-female Japanese band SCANDAL has announced that tickets for their 2015 North American tour are now on sale, along with a select number of VIP tickets. Click the jump for more information.
Earlier this year, J-pop starlet LiSA released her 5th single, "Rising Hope" which became the opening theme song to the hit anime series The Irregular at Magic High School and climbed all the way to number four spot on the Oricon Music Charts in Japan. Today, her 6th single "BRiGHT FLiGHT/ L. Miranic" was officially released on the North American iTunes store- a near month before its scheduled release in Japan!
Known for her contributions to the anime film Tiger and Bunny: The Beginning and her collaboration with Western singer Michelle Branch for "Good Love," it was announced earlier today that her new single "Haru Kaze" ("Spring Breeze") has been selected as the opening for Haruma Miura's live-action drama Boku no Ita Jikan. She has also announced a five-city tour in Japan this spring, with performances in Hokkaido, Fukuoka, Aichi, Osaka and Tokyo.
Japanese pop singer May'n has finally revealed the title and cover jacket to her much anticipated fourth album, New World, which will be released later this month on January 29th, 2014. In addition to her pieces featured in anime and video games, including Accel World and E.X. Troopers, the album will feature new songs from the popular starlet.
Fans of the currently airing Studio TRIGGER animation Kill la Kill will be glad to know that the hit opening theme song, "sirius" and soundtrack "Sanbika" were both recently released on December 1st in over twenty countries worldwide, including the US, via iTunes and Amazon MP3. The single for "sirius-EP" will also include the track "Kuroita," the theme song for the recently released PlayStation 3 game Drakenguard 3.
"AKB48 opened official profile page on Myspace to communicate with the world !
In preparation to become active overseas, a popular idol group AKB48 is opening their profile page on Myspace in order to reach out to the fans around the world and send out their information.
Myspace Japan KK (Shibuya, Tokyo) which manages the music entertainment SNS “Myspace” in Japan, in cooperation of Sync Music Japan, a project organized by Japan Association of Music Enterprises (JAME), Music Publishers Association of Japan (MPAJ), and the Federation of Music Producers Japan (FMPJ) in order to expand Japanese music market to a global scale, will introduce AKB48’s official profile page to the whole world today.
On AKB48’s official page, their newest songs are available for sampling and their newest information will be regularly updated in English as they are eager to communicate with the overseas fans.
http://www.myspace.com/akb48official"
In preparation to become active overseas, a popular idol group AKB48 is opening their profile page on Myspace in order to reach out to the fans around the world and send out their information.
Myspace Japan KK (Shibuya, Tokyo) which manages the music entertainment SNS “Myspace” in Japan, in cooperation of Sync Music Japan, a project organized by Japan Association of Music Enterprises (JAME), Music Publishers Association of Japan (MPAJ), and the Federation of Music Producers Japan (FMPJ) in order to expand Japanese music market to a global scale, will introduce AKB48’s official profile page to the whole world today.
On AKB48’s official page, their newest songs are available for sampling and their newest information will be regularly updated in English as they are eager to communicate with the overseas fans.