aiko Teases More Of Her New Album With A Radio Debut Of A New Song!

Vocalist aiko announced today that she will be dropping her newest song "ハナガサイタ"("hana ga saita") on the Japanese radio countrywide on the 24th of this month. "ハナガサイタ" will be on aiko's new album 湿った夏の始まり (Shimetta Natsu no Hajimari), which will be released on June 6th. Also released was a teaser for the album on her official YouTube page.

You can check out the teaser below!

Indie Corner Week 4: ecke

ecke is a four-member band formed in 2012 that produced a fusion of both R&B and rock; a very interesting fusion that surprisingly works very well in several of their songs. ecke’s guitar and keyboard mix very well as a base with vocals courtesy of Nao Mori's soothing voice, which helps the listener drift away to the beat of the song. Most of their songs--in particular, “Classic” and “ACCESS”--show great examples of this.

ecke has three EPs total, the first from 2013, with their first album, BYPATH, releasing  in 2017. They also collaborated with another indie band named the Lucy for a live called Milestone Vol. 1 & 2 which took place in 2016 and 2017. They started 2018 with a bang by performing a major live with fellow Indie Corner band Emerald at Shibuya WWW.

You can check out ecke on thier official site and twitter

ecke stars Yasuyuki Sugawara (drums),

Jun Okuyama (guitar),

Nao Mori (vocals, keyboard),

and Naoyuki Fukuda (bass).

Check out thier latest music video for their song  “ACCESS” below!

BAND-MAID Announces A New Single!

Five-member rock group BAND-MAID announced today that they will be releasing a brand new single called start over. Its release scheduled for July 25th, the single will have only two songs. The limited edition copy will include a Blu-ray release of their live in ZEPP TOKYO (which took place in April) along with the music video of their April fools joke song “secret MAIKO lips”. There will be only 3500 copies of the limited edition produced making this a must buy item for BAND-MAID fans!

You can check out “secret MAIKO lips” below!  

PassCode Drops A Preview Of Their Latest Single!

As reported earlier, heavy metal idol hybrid group PassCode will be releasing a brand new single, "Ray", on May 23rd. Released on their official YouTube page was a small teaser that involves all three songs involved with the single. PassCode will be having a Line Live celebrating the release of "Ray" that will air on May 23rd at 8 PM Japan Time.


You can check out the teaser for "Ray" below!