the HIATUS teases fans with Secret Spot!

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Popular five-member rock band the HIATUS announced the release of a brand new album tilted Our Secret Spot July 24. This will be the latest album from the group since Hands of Gravity back in July of 2016 and will be their sixth album overall. Dropping with only ten tracks total, Our Secret Spot will be released with only a CD-only standard edition.

the HIATUS「Our Secret Spot Tour 2019」

2019年7月31日 Tokyo’s Zepp Tokyo
2019年8月1日 Tokyo’s Zepp Tokyo
2019年8月6日 Fukuoka’s Zepp Fukuoka
2019年8月8日 Hiroshima’sBLUE LIVE HIROSHIMA
2019年8月21日 Miyagi’s SENDAI GIGS
2019年9月3日 Aichi’s Zepp Nagoya
2019年9月4日 Aichi’s Zepp Nagoya
2019年9月11日 Niigata’s NIIGATA LOTS
2019年9月13日 Hokkaido Zepp Sapporo
2019年9月18日 Osaka’s Zepp Osaka Bayside
2019年9月19日 Osaka’s Zepp Osaka Bayside
2019年9月24日 Kagawa’s Takamatsu festhalle

Along with the album, the HIATUS also announced the live tour to accompany its release. Lovingly titled Our Secret Spot Tour 2019, it will be held from July 31 until September 24 across twelve different venues (see right for details).

Check out their amazing style with their 10th #1 trailer along with the pre-order link for Our Secret Spot below!

Standard edition

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Track listing:

the HIATUS「Our Secret Spot」

01. Hunger
02. Servant
03. Regrets
04. Time Is Running Out
05. Chemicals
06. Silence
07. Back On the Ground
08. Firefly / Life in Technicolor
09. Get Into Action
10. Moonlight

STU48 loves people

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Mega female idol group STU48 released a brand new music video for their upcoming single “Daisuki Na Hito” which will be released July 31. The video is a slower number and features various members of the group meeting up in different locations before a crowd of people meet on a barge and begin dancing. The group members are in the foreground but past them there are over a hundred extras who are also dancing to the song.

In traditional fashion for the big 48 groups, “Daisuki Na Hito” is getting a bunch of editions. The grand total of editions being released is eight, with four being standard editions which will include a CD along with a DVD; however, the limited edition will also have a CD along with a DVD but also feature an event ticket that is only valid in Japan. Each of the eight editions, too, will come with its own unique cover art which can be found posted below. You can pre-order your copy of “Daisuki Na Hito” at the links provided and check out its video.

Standard Edition Type A

Standard Edition Type B

Standard edition Type C  

Standard edition Type D

Limited Edition Type A

Limited edition Type B

Limited Edition Type C

Limited edition Type D

Seiko Matsuda tells her greatest story

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Industry veteran Seiko Matsuda is releasing a compilation of her best songs from the 90s and 00s titled Seiko Story - 90s - 00s Hits Collection - which will be released August 7. Matsuda got her start back in 1980 as a teen idol and went on to have twenty-four consecutive singles hit number one on the charts. She rose to prominence during what is considered the golden age of idols but unlike most idols who eventually faded from popularity, Matsuda was able to maintain relevance well after the golden age of idols had come to an end. She is active in the industry to this day and over the course of her career she has released eighty-four singles and fifty-two studio albums.    

Seiko Story - 90s - 00s Hits Collection - is being released in one edition and it will be on two Blu-spec CD2 discs, a newer type of CD made using the Blu-ray process which makes the sound more clear. Also, Blu-spec CD2 works with regular CD players. You can pre-order your copy of Seiko Story - 90s - 00s Hits Collection - here.

Plastic Tree awards fans for patience with new single!

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Four-member rock band Plastic Tree announced the release of a brand new single, ”潜像”  (“Senzo”), for September 4. This will be the latest single release from the group since “Inside Out” back in July of last year. “Senzo” will drop with two new tracks along with their instrumentals, rounding it out to feature four tracks total. All band members will be involved in some way with the single with the A-side track. “Senzo” is being written by vocalist Ryutaro Arimura and compositions are being done by bassist Tadashi Hasegawa. B-side track IC will be written by lead guitarist Akira Nakata with drummer KenKen Sato taking composition role for this track.

Plastic Tree is going all-out for this single by dropping three different editions: a CD-only standard edition and two limited editions, Type A and Type B. Type A will ship with a CD and DVD which will include the music video for “Senzo” while Type B will include a small photo book to go along side with the CD. 

Plastic Tree Autumn Tour2019「holographic boy,imitation girl」

2019年9月14日 Kanagawa’s CLUB CITTA'

2019年9月15日 Miyagi’s Rensa

2019年9月21日 Kumamoto’s Kumamoto B.9 V1

2019年9月22日 Fukuoka’s DRUM LOGOS

2019年9月27日 Aichi’s Nagoya ReNY limited

2019年9月29日 Osaka’s BIGCAT

2019年10月12日 Chiba’s Ichikawa City Cultural Hall

Plastic Tree also announced their autumn tour to commemorate the release of the single, simply coined holographic boy, imitation girl. The tour will take place from September 14 to October 12 (venue details at right).

Pre-order all the lovely editions of “Senzo” in the links below!

Standard edition 

Limited edition Type A

Limited edition Type B

Track listing:

Plastic Tree「Senzo」

CD

01. 潜像 (Senzo)

02. IC

03. 潜像（Instrumental）

04. IC（Instrumental）

Limited Edition Type A DVD

・「潜像」Music Video

Keyakizaka46 plans to release 2018 concert

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Mega female idol group Keyakizaka46 revealed they will be releasing a live recording of a three-day concert that took place in July of 2018. The concert in question took place at Fuji-Q Highland and features not only Keyakizaka46 but also Hinatazaka46. The full title of the concert is Keyaki Kyowakoku 2018 and the recording will be released August 14, released in four editions. The standard editions will be released in both DVD and Blu-ray formats and the same is true for the limited editions—however, the limited edition will also include a bonus disc that features a documentary of the group while on tour and they will come in a slipcase cover. But wait, there’s more: six postcards that are randomly selected from a pool of forty-six total. You can pre-order your copy here.

Standard DVD edition

Standard Blu-ray edition

Limited DVD edition

Limited Blu-ray edition

You should also check out Keyakizaka46’s smash hit “Kuroi Hitsuji”.