Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 by Kathy Chee
STEREOPONY to perform at AnimeNEXT as a guest of honor!! June 18 – 20 at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, New Jersey.
STEREOPONY is a Japanese all-girl rock band that formed in Okinawa in 2007, consisting of AIMI (Vocal/Guitar), NOHANA (Bass), and SHIHO (Drums).
The band gained their first opportunity on the Japanese rock radio program SCHOOL OF LOCK!!
Their debut single “Hitohira No Hanabira” was the 17th ending theme for the famous anime series BLEACH released on November 5, 2008 and ranked #25 on the Oricon Weekly Charts.
And 2nd single “Namida No Muko,” the second opening theme for the second season of the Sunrise series Mobile Suit Gundam 00; and achieved #2 in the Oricon charts.
In March 2009, the girls have performed in SXSW 2009, and received a thunderous ovation.
3rd single “I do it” is a collaboration with fellow Sony Music Entertainment Japan singer YUI, was released on April 22, 2009.
Their debut studio album A hydrangea blooms was released on June 17, 2009 and ranked #7 on the Oricon weekly charts.
5th single “TSUKIAKARI NO MICHISHIRUBE”, also released with the tie-in with the second season of hit anime series Darker than Black; it ranked #8 on Oricon.
Official STEREOPONY Website – http://www.stereopony.com
Official STEREOPONY Myspace Page – http://www.myspace.com/stereopony
Tags: AIMI, animenext, girl rock, j-pop, j-rock, NOHANA, Okinawa, SHIHO, STEREOPONY
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by Victoria Goldenberg
Nearly two years after her last single, authentic and eccentric music talent Cocco will release her first digital EP. The currently unnamed collection is a conceptual one consisting of four songs connected to the seasons. It will go on sale August 15, the same day Cocco releases her new book, Cocco-san no daidokoro, and performs a mini-live at the Shibuya Tower Records.
The tracks are:
(Spring) Kinuzure
(Summer) the end of Summer
(Autumn) Bye Bye Pumpkin Pie [performed in the Cocco KiraKira Live Tour DVD]
(Winter) Ai ni Tsuite
A number of digital stores will sell the EP. If you live overseas and want to buy it, your best bet is to buy a Japanese iTunes card. ITunes also carries some other Cocco works not available physically, like the “Dugong no Mieru Oka” music video and audio from the Live Speedstar Express DVD.
Cocco’s also collaborated on three tracks for Curly Giraffe’s self-cover album, Thank You For Being a Friend, on sale October 21. Curly Giraffe is a solo project by the former Great 3 bassist, Takakuwa Kiyoshi. A limited edition preview EP came out in May, but the album will include all its songs and more.
Tracks:
1. Water On featuring Arai Akino
2. My Dear Friend featuring Cocco
3. Forbidden Fruits featuring Kimura Kaela
4. Run Run Run featuring Bonnie Pink
5. Chaos featuring Chara
6. Mood featuring LOVE PSYCHEDELICO
7. Fountain Of Youth featuring Ando Yuko
8. You Just Swept Me Off My Feet featuring Hiraoka Keiko
9. Stand featuring Cocco
10. Spilt Milk featuring Bonnie Pink
11. Gentle Tree featuring Arai Akino
12. On Cloud Nine featuring Chara
13. Tricky Adult featuring Cocco
On July 10, C-pop and J-pop singer alan will release a Chinese album including the Mandarin version of “Gunjou no Tani,” the song Cocco wrote for her. The album is called Xin De Dong Fang and “Gunjou no Tani” is retitled “Ai Kan De Jian.”
Last winter, Cocco was the subject of Daijoubu de aru you ni – Cocco The endless journey - , a documentary by acclaimed director Koreeda Hirokazu (Nobody Knows).
Cocco official site:
http://www.cocco.co.jp
Curly Giraffe:
http://www.myspace.com/curlygiraffe
alan:
http://alan-web.jp/index.html
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 by Kathy Chee
Thought you’d have to wait for that import to ship? JapanFiles has the solution for folks who need that instant shot of girly metal joy.
Female visual kei band exist trace (exist†trace) premieres their new 6-song EP “VANGUARD -of the muses-” today on JapanFiles.com.
Featuring 6 all-new tracks, the album is available at 320 kbps for only .99 cents a track.
Three more female-fronted bands also release music on JapanFiles this week:
Hard rock quintet GUARDIAN HACKER releases their two EPs “Burn me away”(2008) and “A new scenery” (2007).
Fans of RAMPANT can now hear their early-career 2007 EP “CHAIN,” and goth-rock KARA’s full-length album “SABAE” (2008) is also available.
Tags: existtrace, girl rock, japanfiles, metal, visual kei
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STEREOPONY to perform at AnimeNEXT as a guest of honor!! June 18 – 20 at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, New Jersey.