Ame no Parade shows there are no borders between them with new album!

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Popular three-member rock band Ame no Parade announced that they will be releasing a brand new album, BORDERLESS, January 22. This will be the latest album release by the group since Reason of Black Color back in March of last year. Releasing with eleven tracks total, BORDERLESS will include popular tracks “Ahead Ahead” and “Summer Time Magic”. The album will also be produced by Koichi Tsutaya of music production team agehasprings. Tsutaya will not be the only artist to help out Ame no Parade’s latest hit as the three-member hip-hop unit Dos Monos will also be collaborating on a track. The album will also drop with two editions, a CD-only standard edition and a 2-CD limited edition. The second CD will include a live audio rip of their LIQUIDROOM performance from April. Check out Ame no Parade’s latest music video “Story” along with the pre-order links for BORDERLESS below!

Standard edition

Limited edition 

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Track listing:

Ame no Parade「BORDERLESS」

01. BORDERLESS

02. Summer Time Magic

03. Story

04. Walk on

05. Trust

06. 惑星STRaNdING（ft.Dos Monos）

07. Hallelujah!!

08. EXIT

09. Gullfoss

10. Material

11. Ahead Ahead（new mix）

Limited edition CD

・LIVE ALBUM「Live at TOKYO-LIQUIDROOM 2019.4.24」

Dizzy Sunfist releases one-man live

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Punk rock band and Indie Corner alum Dizzy Sunfist announced they will be releasing the live taping of their one-man live performance at Shinkiba Studio Coast. This was to commemorate the band’s ten year anniversary in the music industry. There are a total of thirty-seven songs that were performed for the one-man live. The live is titled One-Man,BARI,Ya-Man DX and will be released January 1 next year. One-Man,BARI,Ya-Man DX is being released in two editions, a DVD edition and a Blu-ray edition. Pre-orders are up and posted below.

DVD Edition

Blu-ray Edition

EMPiRE shows the world who they are with latest music video!

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Six-member idol group EMPiRE dropped the music video for their track “WE ARE THE WORLD” on their official YouTube channel. “WE ARE THE WORLD” is the set to be the lead track for the group’s upcoming second album GREAT JOURNEY ALBUM, set for release December 18. Like several songs previously released by EMPiRE, “WE ARE THE WORLD” is produced by the amazing composition team SCRAMBLES with Kenta Matsukuma taking the composition work and JxSxK on lyrics.
Dropping with ten tracks total, GREAT JOURNEY ALBUM will manifest in three editions: a CD-only standard edition, a CD + DVD limited edition, and a Cassette + Blu-ray + CD + Photo book collector’s edition. Not much is different between the editions except that collector’s edition will feature an additional eleventh track and the DVD and Blu-ray will include the footage from their EVOLUTiON live tour from Mynavi BLITZ AKASAKA which took place back in July. For true fans of EMPiRE, the CD that is included with the collector’s edition will include a fifteen-track rip of the same live tour, with the Blu-ray also including several music videos that are featured on the album. Check out the music video in question along with the pre-order links for GREAT JOURNEY ALBUM below!

Standard edition

Limited edition 

Collector edition


Track listing:

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EMPiRE「the GREAT JOURNEY ALBUM」

CD / CASSETTE TAPE

01. Have it my way

02. WE ARE THE WORLD

03. ピアス（the GREAT JOURNEY ver.）

04. A journey

05. RiGHT NOW

06. きっと君と

07. SUCCESS STORY

08. NEW WORLD

09. 曲がりくねった道の

10. I have a chance!!

11. SELFiSH PEOPLE（the GREAT JOURNEY ver.）※Bonus Track（Only for the Collector Editon）

Collector Edition Blu-ray

・2019.07.11 at Mynavi BLITZ AKASAKA NEW EMPiRE TOUR "EVOLUTiONS"

01. EMPiRE is COMiNG

02. SELFiSH PEOPLE

03. デッドバディ

04. Don't tell me why

05. EMPiRE originals

06. maybe blue

07. Talk about

08. TOKYO MOONLiGHT

09. Dope

10. コノ世界ノ片隅デ

11. ERASER HEAD

12. LiTTLE BOY

13. Black to the dreamlight

14. ピアス

15. アカルイミライ

16. FOR EXAMPLE??

17. SO i YA

18. S.O.S

19. Buttocks beat! beat!

20. MAD LOVE

21. SUCCESS STORY

・Music Video

「ピアス」「SUCCESS STORY」「RiGHT NOW」「Have it my way」ほか6収録予定

・Making Movie

Collector Edition CD

・2019.07.11 at Mynavi BLITZ AKASAKA NEW EMPiRE OUR"EVOLUTiONS"

Only fifteen tracks total

CD+DVD Limited Edition DVD

・2019.07.11 at Mynavi BLITZ AKASAKA NEW EMPiRE TOUR "EVOLUTiONS"

Chay shows fans a new shade of Lavender with new album

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Popular Japanese vocalist, songwriter, and model chay brought us a lovely shade of lavender with a new album, Lavender, November 13! Chay is known very well known in magazine CanCam as she has been an exclusive model with them since 2014 and she has been in the music industry since 2012. This is chay’s first full length album release in over two years since her chayTEA came out in June of 2017 and third album overall. Lavender comes with fourteen lovely tracks, many of which produced by Takeshi Takebe and the album was released in two beautiful editions. The CD limited edition includes an IC holder with a mobile phone ring selected from one of three kinds and it will also come with a lavender colored case. If you are able to grab the first pressing edition of either edition you will receive a B3 sized poster as a bonus so grab your copies below!

Lavender

CD limited edition

CD limited edition

CD limited edition

CD regular edition

1. 伝えたいこと

2. 大切な色彩

3. 私が私になるために

4. 砂漠の花

5. Snowflake

6. ブーケの行方

7. To Shining Shining Days

CD regular edition

CD regular edition

8. ずっと きっと 叶う

9. My Fairy Tale

10. あなたの知らない私たち

11. Girl Friends

12. HIKARI

13. With

14. 小さな手

Check out chay’s newest track Tsutaetai below!

SCANDAL embraces the darkness in new album

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Rock band SCANDAL revealed they will be dropping their first album since the creation of their own record label titled “her”. The new album, Kiss from the darkness, will be dropping February 12 next year. Kiss from the darkness is SCANDAL’s ninth album overall and their first album in two years; their last was Honey, released February 14, 2018. The singles that have been released since the formation of her will be on the new album with songs “Masterpiece”, “Blink”, “Fuzzy”, and “Final Weapons”. Kiss from the darkness will mark a new direction for the band. Lead vocalist Haruna commented, “I think you can hear new challenges and experimental parts from the songs that have already been released.” 

The excitingly fresh album is being released in four editions total: a standard CD-only edition, a limited edition Type A which comes with a bonus DVD, a limited edition type B which comes with a magazine, and a limited edition that comes with bonus DVD plus a T-shirt. The full track listing has not yet been revealed but there will be a total of fifteen tracks on the CD. The limited edition Type A DVD will feature a documentary which will follow the members of SCANDAL for the first year of their new label and the DVD for the limited edition will contain a music video for the already released singles. Pre-orders are up and posted below along with the group’s song “Masterpiece”.

Standard Edition

Limited Edition Type A

Limited Edition Type B

Limited Edition