SSSS.GRIDMAN brings the gang back together with new best-of album!

Fans of popular tokusatsu anime SSSS.GRIDMAN are in luck, as it was just announced that there will be a best-of album out December 18. Simply called SSSS.GRIDMAN BEST ALBUM, the album is boasted to be a must-have for fans. Dropping with fifteen tracks total, it will not only include both the opening and ending theme songs from the series but it will also include the illustrious character theme songs. Additionally it will drop with only a CD-only standard edition which is specially designed for the album. Pre-order the album in the link below!

Standard edition 

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Track listing/ Artists

「SSSS.GRIDMAN BEST ALBUM」

01. UNION / OxT

02. ONLY I CAN / Yuta Hibiki（CV：Yuya Hirose）

03. ウルトラセオリー / Sho Utsumi（CV：Soma Saito）

04. ガラス玉 / Rikka Takarada（CV：Yume Miyamoto）

05. もっと君を知りたい / Akane Shinjo（CV：Reina Ueda）

06. CODE "GRIDMAN" / GRIDMAN（CV：Hikaru Midorikawa）

07. My Way / Anti（CV：Kenichi Suzumura）

08. INTERSECTION! / Vit（CV：Masaya Matsukaze）

09. Dig Dig Boooom! / Bora（CV：Aoi Yuki）

10. Xenon's Justice / Neon Genesis Junior High Students（CV：Ryosuke Takahashi、Katsuyuki Konishi、Aoi Yuki、Masaya Matsukaze）

11. 遠い日の未来 / Max（CV：Katsuyuki Konishi）

12. 心ノ在処 / Samurai Calibur（CV：Ryosuke Takahashi）

13. HumanLove

14. 夢のヒーロー OxT ver / OxT

15. youthful beautiful / Maaya Uchida

Chiaki Sato takes fans to a whole new Planet of sounds with new album!

Chiaki Sato, formerly of band Kinoko Teikoku, announced that she will be releasing a brand new album, PLANET, November 13. This will be her first full album since her departure from the band and being signed to UNIVERSAL MUSIC Japan’s label. Not much is known about PLANET but it is to be released with two editions, a CD-only standard release and a CD + DVD limited edition. The album will also drop with twelve tracks total and will include recently released track “キスをする” (“Kiss wo Suru”). The DVD will also include several tracks from her special studio live performance. 

Chiaki Sato One-Woman Live「Sora kara Ochiru Hoshi no Youni」

12/06/2019  Iwate’s Club Change WAVE

12/19/2019 Tokyo’s Nihonbashi Matsui Hall

Sato also announced that she will be holding a small one-woman live tour in December lovingly called 空から落ちる星のように (Sora kara Ochiru Hoshi no Youni). Currently only two dates have been revealed for the tour (details at right).

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Pre-order PLANET in the links below!

Standard edition

Limited edition

Track listing:

Chiaki Sato「PLANET」

01. STAR

02. FAKE/romance

03. 空から落ちる星のように

04. You Make Me Happy

05. 大キライ

06. lak

07. Summer Gate

08. Lovin'You

09. Spangle

10. 面

11. キスをする

12. PLANET

DVD

【STUDIO LIVE】

・空から落ちる星のように

・大キライ

・面

・キスをする

Hirate Yurina drops new song on YouTube

Keyakizaka46 leader Hirate Yurina revealed her next solo song “「角を曲がる」” (“Tsuno o magaru”). The song was used for Yurina’s first major motion picture Hibiki which came out last year. “Tsuno o magaru” was performed at their dome tour in Tokyo back on September 19 and 20. It has not been decided if “Tsuno o magaru” is going to be released with Keyakizaka46’s ninth single due out this winter, but you can check it out in the video below.

Music Corner Week 25: I Don't Like Mondays.

Four-member rock band I Don’t Like Mondays. got their start in 2012 in Tokyo. Even though the band members don’t like Mondays, they came up with the name as they thought it would sound impressive if it was like a sentence. I Don’t Like Mondays consists of the members: Yu on vocals, Choji on guitar, Kenji on bass, and Shuki on drums. All the members are big on collaboration with each other and compose and write the songs themselves. If one member isn’t satisfied with the production of the music, it doesn’t get made, which shows in their songs that each is unique and stands out.

I Don’t Like Mondays. showcases their range in music production in their songs with Yu’s smooth vocals and the combination of Choji, Kenji, and Shuki all working together. Yu’s vocals are what bring out the songs with his smooth vocals which make for easy listening. Their song “Girlfriend” shows off Yu’s vocal range and Kenji and Choji’s great guitar work and it has a nice mid-tempo beat to it. One of my favorite parts of the song is hearing the whole band sing together. “LEMONADE” is the song that caught my ear with its fun summery beat. Their' newest song “Diamond” has an amazing guitar work and Yu’s vocals shine like a diamond by showcasing his vocal range.

I Don’t Like Mondays. currently has three studio albums: PLAY, TOKYO, and FASHION; one EP: SUMMER; and three physical singles “We Are Young”, “Sorry”, and “TONIGHT”. I Don’t Like Monday just released their fourth studio album on August 21st entitled Future which you can currently pick up on CDJAPAN!

Check out I Don’t Like Mondays Official Website, follow them on Twitter and Instagram as well!

Check out their latest music video Diamond below!

GENERATIONS From EXILE Tribe chronicle boyhood

Hot on the heels of their chart-topping single, GENERATIONS from EXILE Tribe revealed they will be dropping a brand new album titled Shonen Chronicle which is set to drop November 21. Shonen Chronicle will be the group's sixth album overall with their last album being their first best-of, GENERATIONS BEST, which dropped back in January of 2018. Shonen Chronicle will be released in three editions total: a standard edition and two limited editions, one limited with a DVD and the other with a Blu-ray. The CD will feature a total of seventeen tracks while both the DVD and Blu-ray will feature at least six music videos. However, not all contents of the DVD and Blu-ray have been revealed yet. Pre-orders are currently up and will be posted below along with a full track listing for the CD. The final order has not yet been determined, though, so the list won’t be in any particular order. Watch “EXPerience Greatness” if you are curious about their latest hit single. 

Standard Edition

Limited Edition with DVD

Limited Edition with Blu-ray

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GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE「SHONEN CHRONICLE」

CD

・F.L.Y. BOYS F.L.Y. GIRLS

・MAD CYCLONE

・何もかもがせつない

・UNITED JOURNEY

・また、アシタ

・少年

・回転

・G-ENERGY

・Brand New Story

・Control Myself

・DREAMERS

・A New Chronicle

・EXPerience Greatness

・SNAKE PIT

・One in a Million -奇跡の夜に-

・心声

・Nostalgie

DVD / Blu-ray

・F.L.Y. BOYS F.L.Y. GIRLS（Music Video）

・少年（Music Video）

・G-ENERGY（Music Video）

・Brand New Story（Music Video）

・DREAMERS（Music Video）

・EXPerience Greatness（Music Video）

Plus more