BRIGHT releases 3rd album, “IN HARMONY”

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Chrous group, BRIGHT has just released their third full-length studio album, “IN HARMONY”!

BRIGHT initially started off with 3 members - Nagi (20), Mi-Mi (20), and MEG (19), who were known as “ko-spellers” (short for ‘child chorus group’). The three childhood friends decided to form a group together in 2001, and officially named their band “BRIGHT” after NANAKA (18) joined as the 4th member in 2003. They debuted in April 25, 2007 on Avex’s indie label, Rythem Republic, before going major on the label’s sub-label, Rythem Zone, in January 16, 2008.

“IN HARMONY”’s CD will come with a DVD and is therefore priced at 2,415 ¥ (approximately $30 USD). The album includes all their latest singles, including their digital single, “FLOWER”. The charming arrangements for “Flower” have made it a popular selection as a theme song: once for BeeTv’s cellular movie “Kiss x KISS x Kiss”, and again for Fuji TV’s “Koisuru TV sugokyun”

Check out the PV for “Flower” below!



<’IN HARMONY‘ tracklist>

1. Xiao Yin
2. Ano hi no ame
3. Flower
4. Baby Sweet
5. Shining Star (SHiDAX CM image song)
6. Kirai… demo suki ~aisiteru~
7. Brightest Star ~A capella versio~
8. I’ll Be There ~Symphony orchestra Session~
9. Curtain Call ~I’ll Be There~

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1. Flower PV
2. BRIGHT 4th Live ~Real~ 2010.3.27 at Namba Hatch (live video)
- Opening ~Dance With Us~
- Kirai… demo suki ~aisiteru~
- Secret
- Promise You
3. Flower (Making of video)

The ‘first press’ DVD includes the group’s recording sessions in Beijing titled, “BRIGHT in Bejing”.


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Shibasaki Kou releases full version of “Euphoria” PV

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Shibasaki wrote the song exclusively for Fuji TV’s special drama, “Strawberry Night“, and the PV stars the drama’s female lead, Takeuchi Yuko (30), who also happens to be a close friend of Shibasaki.



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MAIKA releases “Kokoro” single, holds special event and mini-live

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20-year-old newcomer, MAIKA, who just debuted this past April with “never cry“, held a special event and mini-live on the 20th of October for her third single, “Kokoro“, the theme song to the movie, “Raiou,” which is out in theatres on the 22nd.

MAIKA, who read the script for the movie, said that she was impressed by the hero and the coming together of the two characters, and had them in mind when writing the lyrics to “Kokoro“. During the special event, she sang four songs in front of 500 happy fans.

“Kokoro“, a ballad, is quite different from the rock flavoured singles she had previously released.

Check out her live performance on “Happy Music” below.




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Miyazaki Aoi’s new CM series for “earth music＆ecology”

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Miyazaki Aoi will star in a new CM series for the apparel brand, “earth music＆ecology“, which started airing on October 20th. The shoot of the CM was held in New Zealand, and Aoi tries skiing while she sings THE BLUE HEART’s masterpiece, “Jounetsu no Bara“.

In total, there are three different versions: “Skiing”, “Walking on the snow”, and “Scoop”.

According to Oricon Style, Aoi practiced skiing for two hours by herself, because the last time she tried skiing was when she was in elementary school.

Check out the cute CMs by Aoi below!





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Alice Nine’s upcoming single “Stargazer:” PV revealed

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Alice Nine will be releasing a new single, “Stargazer:“, on November 10th, and its PV was revealed on “Alice 9 Channel” (monthly live streaming on Niconico Douga). It has also been announced that one of the follow-up songs to “Stargazer:”, “Karma (カルマ)”, has been chosen as an image song for new serial manga, “Elite!! ～Expert Latitudinous Investigation Team～“, by Shinjo Mayu, which has just started its series in “Monthly Young Magazine” on October 13th. They will make a special anime PV using “Karma”, and the part of the special PV will be shown on Kodansha’s official site on Nobember 10th.

Below is the track list for “Stargazer:”.




-CD
1. Stargazer:
2. Shinkirou (蜃気楼)
-DVD
1. Stargazer:　MUSIC CLIP
2. Stargazer:　MUSIC CLIP Making




-CD
1. Stargazer:
2. Shinkirou (蜃気楼)
-DVD
1. DOCUMENTARY OF “FLASH LIGHT From The Past”




-Only CD
1. Stargazer:
2. Shinkirou (蜃気楼)
3. Karma (カルマ)


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Tommy Heavenly6 finally releases a new song!

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It’s been over a year since she created a new song, but The Brilliant Green’s Tomoko Kawase, has finally released a new song under her solo project, Tommy Heavenly6.

The song, “I’m Your Devil”, was released earlier this month (10/07) and is the theme song for the “Mode Gakuen” CM. It was released earlier on September 22, but only via Chaku Uta.

Check out her latest song below:



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exist trace “Decide” teaser

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The tracks have been revealed one by one, and now female visual-kei band exist trace have a teaser for fans.

The first track, “DECIDE“, off their upcoming album, “TWIN GATE“, which will release November 3rd, has been leaked. The album has 10 tracks, and you can see the PV for the track, “VANGUARD“, here.

Check out the preview for “DECIDE” below!




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Female metal band, ALDIOUS, release new PV

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If metal is making a comeback, it’s coming in the form of females in lingerie and prom dresses. All-female metal band, ALDIOUS, has just released the full PV to “Luft“, a single off their newest album, “Deep Exceed”, which went on sale October 13th.

Imagine pop singers, models, or even gyarus performing heavy metal. What do you get? You get ALDIOUS, a five female band that started in June 2008 in Osaka with Rami (vocals) and Yoshi (guitar). They took part in a compilation album called “Red Hot Burning Hell Vol. 16”, and in January 2009 were joined by Toki (guitar), after which they began recording for the first time as Aldious. That same year, they released a four track EP called “Dear Slave” in November. That self-released EP became a hit, as it sold out in many metal record shops.

In January of this year, they added drummer Aruto to the band, and then Sawa (bass) in March.

The band has their own label, called “Bright Star Records”. They just released their debut single, “Defended Desire”, on July 7th, and ranked 49th on Oricon’s weekly chart, and 24th on Oricon’s daily ranking. The single ranked fourth on Oricon’s indies chart.

Keep a look out for these ladies because metal just got sexy.


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Rami (vocal)

















Yoshi (guitar)




















Toki (guitar)





















Sawa (bass)



















Aruto (drums)




















“Luft” PV




Aldious 2010.4.26

Aldious ～アルディアス～ | Myspace Music Videos


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Instrumental band “sonodaband” to debut major album

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Instrumental group ‘sonodaband‘ will be releasing their debut full-length album “Renaissance” on October 20th. sonodaband consists of a keyboard, violin, cello, guitar, bass, and drums, and all 6 members are students of the University of Tokyo, considered to be the most prestigious university in Japan.

Since they are an instrumental band, they have no vocalist. However, their music has been received positively, in that “You can hear the song even though they have no vocalist.”

Below is the track list of their Limited Edition version of “Renaissance”, which will include a score of “Soul River_2010″.



1. Soul River_2010
2. Reflections
3. Kanashii Taiyo
4. Tabidatsu monotachi
5. Shanghai gozen reiji
6. Tango-Fragments
7. C’est la vie [Re:]
8. Ikiru
9. Spanish Ecstasy [LIVE] (bonus track)
10. Mousugu [LIVE] (bonus track)

PV of Soul River_2010


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All female visual-kei band ‘exist†trace’ reveals tracklist for upcoming album

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We’ve reported earlier that all female visual-kei band exist†trace will be releasing a new album “TWIN GATE” on November 3rd. They’ve just revealed the tracklist, and you can sample their entire album on the music portal site, BARKS.



1. DECIDE
2. Orleans no Shoujo (オルレアンの少女)
3. KNIFE（Album mix）
4. Neverland
5. RESONANCE
6. VANGUARD
7. Blaze
8. unforgive you
9. Owari no nai Sekai「終わりのない世界」
10. Cradle

“VANGUARD” PV



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Marin & Riena finally debut!

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After snagging the #1 spot on uta ten with their summer song “Natsu no Kaori”, Marin & Riena are finally debuting this month. Their debut single, “Love Train”, will be out on October 20th and come in two versions. There will be three tracks on the single, excluding three instrumentals.

“Love Train” is the ABC-MART TV-CM song and will be the ending theme song to TBS’ “Arabiki Dan”, airing on October 11th. The second track, “Natsu no Kaori” is the ending theme song to TBS’ “Hiruobi!”, and the third track is “Okaeri”. The DVD version will come with a PV of all three songs.


If you’re not familiar with the girls, Marin is a lyricist and rapper, and Riena was #2 in the Tokyo Girls Collection Grand Prix.




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Perfume’s “Nee” becomes a CM song

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Women’s fashion brand NATURAL BEAUTY BASIC has selected electro-pop group Perfume to appear in their fall television commercial. The new commercial will use their upcoming November 10th single, “Nee“, as the theme for the advertisement.

Perfume teamed up with NATURAL BEAUTY BASIC back in March as well, lending their “Natural ni Koishite” song to their television advertisements. This will be a continuation of that commercial, and it will start to air on October 6th. The clothing they wear in the CM will be debuted in NATURAL BEAUTY BASIC stores across Japan on the same day.

The NATURAL BEAUTY BASIC official site also launched a special corner called, “Perfume360° Catalogue”, where people interested in the clothing the trio wears can check out the outfits online. They can click through outfits on 3D images of the girls, plus this area will also stream the CM prior to its television broadcast.

Fans can check out Perfume’s 3D models here: http://perfume.naturalbeautybasic.com/

Additionally, here is the old March CM for NATURAL BEAUTY BASIC with Perfume:



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Nana Tanimura announces new single and releases first photo book

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Pop singer Nana Tanimura has announced a new single, “TOXIC”, on November 24th, and it will be her second single release this year. Her last single, “FAR AWAY/Believe You”, was released in March of this year, and debuted at #14 on the Oricon charts.

There are two versions of the CD single: CD+DVD and CD Only. There are also two songs, the title track and “CIRCUS WORLD”, as tracks three and four will be instrumentals.

Nana is also releasing her first photo book, titled, “NANA”, and it will be released October 15th by Wani Books at the cost of 2,415 Yen. The photos were shot by Nishida Kouki, who also photographed actresses like Mana Yuuko, Hirata Kaoru, and Horikita Maki.

Additionally, she performed the theme song for the PS3/Xbox360 game, “Hokuto Musou”, and is the lead vocal in the “Fanta band”, a band that was formed to promote Fanta drinks.

Last year, Nana had a special drama PV for the Japanese DVD box set of the American drama series, “Burn Notice”.

Nana graduated from Aoyama Law University in March of this year. She wanted to become a lawyer, but decided earlier this year that her career will be in music.

Take a look at the PV for Nana’s previous single, “FAR AWAY“.


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miwa’s new single to be used for Oguri Shun’s upcoming drama “Veterinarian Dolittle”

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Singer and song writer, miwa, who debuted in March of this year, will be releasing a new single titled, “Otoshimono” on December 1st. The single will also be used for upcoming drama, “Veterinarian Dolittle,” in which Oguri Shun, Inoue Mao, and Narimiya Hiroki star in.

miwa made this song after she read the script for the drama, and said, “I have noticed that you notice important things, such as trust or bonds, when you are about to lose it. So I made this song with a hope to take back the important things I have lost.”

“Veterinarian Dolittle” will start on October 17th.

Check out miwa’s latest song “chAngE,” released on September 1st.


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DaizyStripper starts their 2-nights live “BIRTH or LOVE?”

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Visual-kei rock band, DaisyStripper, held the first day of their 2-nights live “BIRTH or LOVE?” at Nihon Seinenkan on September 30th. The first night was titled, “~Theater of BIRTH~“, and they performed 19 songs mainly from their first album, “BIRTH“, which was released on August 1st (they also released another album, “LOVE“, on the same day).

The vocalist, Yugiri shouted to fans, “I’m glad to see you. Let’s make it hot!“, and aroused the audience of 1,200.

The last day of the live will be held tonight (October 1st in Japan), and it is titled “Theater of LOVE” at SHIBUYA-AX, where they will perform songs from their other album “LOVE”.


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SEAMO versus “5 women” for new collaboration album

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R&B vocalist SEAMO has a new album coming out, and it certainly isn’t his usual soulful fare.

The album will be called “5 Women” and it’ll be available on December 15th. The unique twist to this release is that it’s actually a collaboration album between SEAMO and five different women. He will challenge them all on the album in a test to prove himself.

The guests on the album will sing with him one after another, with the leading track featuring “ViVi” magazine model and singer Sara Mary. Both SEAMO and Sara May are powerful vocalists and coincidentally come from the same hometown, so this will certainly be an interesting collaboration.

SEAMO hasn’t revealed the names of the remaining women yet, but fans should stay tuned for future news on this exciting release!

For those who might not know who SEAMO or Sara Mary are, here is some of the latest from both of them:

SEAMO – Umi he Ikou





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Preview for AKB48’s ‘Beginner’ PV released!

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AKB48’s preview for the PV of ’Beginner‘ has just been released!

As we’ve mentioned in a previous post, this single will come in five versions which includes 2 CD+DVDs, 2 Event editions, and a regular edition. It’s set to hit shelves and e-stores on October 27th, and will serve as the group’s 18th single.

View the preview under the cut!



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PUFFY revisits and wraps up tour in Taiwan

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Female pop duo PUFFY (aka Puffy AmiYumi) held the last day of their concert tour at the Taipei International Convention Center on September 25th. PUFFY held their first overseas concert there back in 1998, and it was so successful that they planned for a second concert for 1999. However, it was cancelled due to the devastating earthquakes which struck the nation in September of 1999.

At that time, PUFFY promised their fans that they would come back to Taiwan; 12 years later, they finally came through. At the concert, they apologized to fans for taking this long to come back.

PUFFY greeted their audience in Mandarin, “Hello!! We are PUFFY! Let’s enjoy this together!“, and roused the audience by singing “Ai no Shirushi” and “Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi” in Mandarin. In total, they sang 16 songs for the event.

Next year will be PUFFY’s 15th career anniversary, so they are planning to release an album and hold another concert tour. Details are unknown at this time, but stay tuned for updates! In the meantime, check out a the ‘Ai no Shirushi’ music video from back in the day:


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DOMINO to sing new theme for ‘Naruto Shippuden’

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Pop trio DOMINO has announced on their official site that they will be releasing their next song “U can do it!” as the new Naruto Shippuden ending theme.

The song will be available as a Chaku-Uta cell phone download and also as a Rekochoku computer download beginning on October 7th. As of now, the group has no plans for it receive a physical single release.

Regardless, this news should make fans of DOMINO very happy. The group has been relatively quiet since their early summer release of the single “Kira Kira.” Being able to sing a song for an incredibly popular anime series like ‘Naruto’ should thrust the trio into the spotlight, and hopefully they will get more physical releases.

In the meantime, check out their video for “Kira Kira” below!


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S/mileage’s ‘Onaji Jikyuu de Hataraku Tomodachi no Bijin Mama’ PV released!

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S/mileage fans who have been waiting for ages just to view the group’s next PV can now celebrate!

Just a little while ago, the group’s PV for their third single, “Onaji Jikyuu de Hataraku Tomodachi no Bijin Mama“, has been released.

The release of the PV comes as a surprise, as it was not expected to be available to the public until September 29th, as that’s the date the single is being released.

Check out the PV under the cut.



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