Indie Corner Week 3: BabySitter

/

BabySitter are a four-member female band from Nagoya that started in 2015 that came together during a high school festival performance. They modeled themselves after similar bands such as SCANDAL and SHISHAMO. Vocalist and guitarist Yui writes her music with a pop style and elevates it to be much more in tune with the band energy and natural performance. "ボクのうた" ("Boku no Uta") is a prime example of this.

Currently, BabySitter has two singles: "スーパーヒーロー" ("Super Hero"), which was released in 2016; and their second single, "ボクのうた", which was released in October of 2017. "ボクのうた" has shown major success, being Nagoya’s Tower Records number one single over 20 consecutive weeks--and still going as of this writing.

You can checkout “ボクのうた” below!

BabySitter is comprised of Yui (vocals and guitar),

Rio (lead guitar),

Mai (bass),

Miku (drums).

RADWIMPS Newest Single Collaborates With FIFA World Cup!

/

Three-member band RADWIMPS announced today that their brand new single "カタルシスト"("Catharsis") will be used as the theme for this year's FIFA World Cup on Japanese broadcasting. It is being released on June 6th. This isn’t the first time that RADWIMPS' song is being used for a sports broadcast; the first time featured "君と羊と青" ("Kimi to Hitsuji to Ao"), which was used in 2011 for an NHK Soccer theme song.

You can pre-order "カタルシスト" here and you can check out their extremely popular song "前前前世" ("Zenzenzense") from the anime Your Name below.

LiSA Accomplished An Amazing Record!

/

It was announced today via the Oricon charts that artist LiSA, with the release of her best-of albums LiSA BEST -Way- and LiSA BEST -Day-, has taken the 1st and 2nd place on the charts. With this monumental achievement she joins three other female artists that have done similar feats: Ayumi Hamasaki, JUJU, and Kana Nishino.

We congratulate LiSA on the amazing accomplishment and look forward to seeing more throughout her career.

You can buy both Way and Day here!