LUCKY TAPES Releases New Music Video for Yamagishi Santa Directed Drama's Theme Song

Three-member R&B Fusion Band LUCKY TAPES released the music video for their new song “Wonderland” (“ワンダーランド”) on YouTube.

“Wonderland” is a track included on LUCKY TAPES’ latest album, dressing. Concurrent with the music video’s release, the track has been chosen to be the theme song for Lumine’s Christmas drama, MATCH girls, which is available on YouTube.

In the drama, vocalist Takahashi Kai sings while playing an antique, upright piano inside of retro-style cafe, Anderusen. Yamagishi Santa served as the director for both the drama and the theme song’s music video, of which the performance scene featuring Takahashi serves as the focal point.

Furthermore, the drama will have a free showing on December 23rd at Cine Libre Ikebukuro in Tokyo.

Please enjoy both the music video for “Wonderland” and the drama MATCH girls below.

Indie Corner Week 27: CRCK/LCKS

CRCK/LCKS is a five-member jazz pop band formed in 2015 who does a fresh take on various genres such as jazz, math, and progressive rock. They mix their own special compositions with electronica to create their own identity within the genres they tackle. While being a very technically sound band they also have a sense of artistry and emotion that similarly mathy bands lose sense of. They also have a very high sense of musical appropriateness which is evident in “No Goodbye”, for example. In this song, CRCK/LCKS perfectly times when and where to incorporate electronic elements that other artists would possibly overuse.

Currently CRCK/LCKS has three mini-albums CRCK/LCKS (2016), LIGHTER (2017), and Double Rift (2018) which is all available on Apple Music and Spotify.

Check out their official site here, Twitter here, and check out their song “No Goodbye” below!

CRCK/LCKS Stars Ryo Konishi (Sax, Keyboard, Vocoder)

Tomomi Oda (Vocal, Keyboards)

May Inoue (Guitar)

Shunsuke Ochi (Bass)

Shun Ishikawa (Drums)

ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION Announces 48-hour Trial Listening Session for Upcoming Album “Hometown”

Popular band ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION announced that for a limited 48-hour period, they will have a free, trial listening session on a specially created website for their new album, ホームタウン (Hometown), which is to be released on December 5th.

The website has been arranged so that users will be able to listen to the album source only on a smartphone, with the ability to use the internal gyroscope to sense a user’s movement to stop playback.

The website in question can be accessed here

Indie Corner Week 26: Grated Parmesan Cheese

Grated Parmesan Cheese –yes, you’re hearing it right—is a four-member pop rock band born in 2016. With a simple premise of hyping listeners to feel full of energy, overflowing with laughter and brimmed with happiness, Grated Parmesan Cheese makes sure that all who listen to their songs have a smile on their face. Just by listening to vocalist Minatsu’s high energy paired with guitarist Takki’s amazing compositions, listeners will feel as energetic as Minatsu. This is well represented through “Prism”, which sounds like a familiar beat, yet it turns out something a step further than that.

Currently they have one single, “Rotation” (2016), and one album, Next☆Stage!!! (2017).

Check out their official site here, check out their official Twitter here and thier song “Prism” below!

Grated Parmesan Cheese stars Shain (Bass)

Minatsu (Vocals)

Sakyamon (Drums) 

Takki (Guitar) 

Ghost Like Girlfriend Announces A New Mini-Album!

Vocalist Ken Okabayashi’s rock inspired solo project Ghost like girlfriend announced today a brand new mini-album titled, WINDNESS, being released on January 16. WINDNESS is coming off the heels of his latest mini-album, WITNESS, released back in July and will be include five tracks total. 

Okabayashi commented saying that “This time around I composed the tracks with a sense of touch and smell similar to that of the five senses. An album that touches your mind as it depict expectations/ anxiety in related to the things the listener does in the present and in the future.

Check out his official website here, preorder WINDNESS here, and lastly check out his song “(want) like (lover)” below!

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Release Information:

Ghost like girlfriend- WINDNESS

Release date 2019.01.16 (Wed)￥ 1300+ Tax

Track info:

1. shut it up

2. Tonight

3. cruise

4. you're my mirror

5. raining like hell