BiSH invites fans to world of chaos with release of new album!

Popular anti-establishment six-member idol group BiSH announced they will be having a brand new album cryptically titled CARROTS and STiCKS, the full album of which you can look forward to dropping July 3. This will be their third major label album.

Bending the curve on the idol industry, CARROTS and STiCKS will initially be sold separately as mini-albums—one titled CARROTS and the other STiCKS—on Apple Music. STiCKS is to be released April 3 with four tracks total while CARROTS will drop a month later, May 3. The full album will include fourteen tracks, with both mini-albums having a physical release the same date as the full album (July 3).

CARROTS and STiCKS is also to be released via three editions, a CD-only standard edition and two limited editions (a 2-CD + DVD edition and a 2-CD + Blu-ray edition which will include a small photo book as an added bonus).  

To increase hype for their biggest release of the year, BiSH will have an extensive live tour starting April 5 continuing until the release of the album (see dates to the right).

Pre-order all of the lovely editions at the links below and check out a teaser for the project in the video.

Standard Edition

DVD Limited Edition

Blu-ray Limited Edition

Track listing:

BiSH「STiCKS」

01. 遂に死
02. FiNALLY
03. 優しいPAiN
04. FREEZE DRY THE PASTS

BiSH「CARROTS」

01. I am me.
02. まだ途中
03. CAN YOU??
04. NO SWEET

2019年4月5日Kanagawa’s CLUB CITTA'

2019年4月12日Aichi’s Zepp Nagoya

2019年4月13日Aichi’s  Zepp Nagoya

2019年4月20日Okinawa’s Musictown 

2019年4月23日Tokyo’s Zepp Tokyo

2019年5月3日Kumamoto’s Kumamoto B.9 V1

2019年5月5日Osaka’s Zepp Osaka Bayside

2019年5月6日Osaka’s Zepp Osaka Bayside

2019年5月11日Hokkaido’s Zepp Sapporo

2019年5月17日Fukuoka’s Zepp Fukuoka

2019年5月18日Fukuoka’s Zepp Fukuoka

2019年5月25日Miyagi’s Sendai PIT

2019年5月26日Miyagi’s Sendai PIT

2019年6月1日Toyama’s Crossland Oyabe

2019年6月15日Ehime’s Matsuyama City Community Center

2019年6月16日Kagawa Takayama festhalle

2019年6月22日Hiroshima’s BLUE LIVE HIROSHIMA

2019年6月23日Hiroshima’s BLUE LIVE HIROSHIMA

2019年6月30日Niigata’s NIIGATA LOTS

2019年7月2日Tokyo’s Zepp Tokyo

2019年7月3日Tokyo’s Zepp Tokyo

Ayumi Hamasaki proves she is reigning Japanese music queen

Avex trax all-star, Japanese pop vocalist and songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki proves she is the reigning Japanese music queen in a recent poll from Yahoo! Japan. The poll held a survey asking its subscribers to vote on the most popular female solo artist of the Heisei era. There were eight artists to choose from, with options being: Ayumi Hamasaki, Namie Amuro, Utada Hikaru, aiko, MISIA, Kana Nishino, AIMYON, Shiina Ringo, and “Other/I Don’t Know”. The voting commenced March 12 until 31. In total there were over 158,000 votes. Ayumi Hamasaki smashed the competition and took number one with a massive 78,751 (49.8%) votes. Namie Amuro came a close second with 64,263 (40.6%) votes. Between Ayumi Hamasaki and Namie Amuro they took over 90% of the votes, showing the massive influence these ladies have in the industry (poll details below). Who is your J-pop queen?

1. Ayumi Hamasaki - 78,751 (49.8%)

2. Namie Amuro - 64, 263 (40.6%)

3. Hikaru Utada - 6,343 (4.0%)

4. Other/I Don’t Know - 2,697 (1.7%)

5. Kana Nishino - 1,968 (1.2%)

6. aiko - 1,821 (1.2%)

7. MISIA - 1,096 (0.7%)

8. Shiina Ringo - 844 (0.5%)

9. AIMYON - 405 (0.3%)

Vistlip singer ready to exercise his lips again

It was announced today that the lead singer for Vistlip, Tomo, will be returning to the band this summer. Back in December of last year Tomo underwent surgery on his lungs and while the surgery itself went well, during recovery he came down with pneumonia. Since then, all activities for Vistlip have been on hold.

Tomo has come out and apologized to fans for the long recovery but he’s been finally given permission to start singing again. However, he won’t be able to get back on stage until July. On July 7 Vistlip will be performing their twelfth year anniversary concert at Zepp Tokyo.

If you are unfamiliar with Vistlip be sure to check out the short version of their latest single “Black Matrix” below.

flumpool comes back with helpful new single and special live!

Japanese four-member rock band flumpool have a helpful new single scheduled to release May 22 titled “HELP”. “HELP” will contain four tracks which were written while the band was on hiatus for a year. This is an important single for the band as it is the first of the year, but also the first release they have had since 2017. The theme of the title track is to “Get courage and seek salvation or help”; vocalist and guitarist Ryota Yamamura wrote this song while he was seeking help for medical issues he was going through. You can find the track listing below along with a link to help you pre-order your copy today!!

In addition to the release of “HELP“, flumpool will also be collaborating on a special project with popular messaging app LINE titled flumpool x LINE LIVE. There will be auditions to participate in a special movie held with LINE LIVE which will be held April 1 from 0:00 to April 7 at 23:59 hours. For more details on how to participate in this event, you can check out the LINE LIVE special page.

flumpool「HELP」

CD

01. HELP
02. 空の旅路 (Sora no Tabiji)
03. HOPE
04. つながり (Tsunagari)

Limited Edition DVD

・flumpool Re: START

CD Standard Edition

CD + DVD Limited Edition

May'n dazzles us with announcement of latest release!

Vocalist May’n announced that she will be experimenting with her first concept album expressively titled YELL!! which you can look forward to this summer. However, she will not be tackling it alone, as she will have fellow popular artist LiSA helping via a producer role on track “My Heroine”, a first for LiSA. YELL!! will also be the latest album release by May’n since Peace of Smile back in October of 2017.

Also announced was that May’n will be providing the ending theme song for the upcoming TOKYO MX Samurai anime 胡蝶綺 ～若き信長～ (Kocho Ayaginu ~Wakaki Nobunaga~) which you can see a promotion still of to the right. Kocho Ayaginu ~Wakaki Nobunaga~ will begin airing July and will add to her extensive anime theme song list. 

Currently there are no pre-order links available but we’ll update you guys when they are!