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[press release] XJapan Tour Dates & Multimedia Widget

Friday, September 10th, 2010 by Kathy Chee

X Japan fans can embed a multimedia widget from the band’s official ticket website! The widget contains music, video, and tour dates! Help spread the word about X Japan’s first North American tour by displaying this official widget on your blogs, Facebook and Twitter pages!

*Get Tour dates and the X Japan multimedia widget at: http://www.xjapanmusic.com/*

LOS ANGELES, CA (Monday, August 16, 2010) — They’ve sold 30-million records and DVDs, filled the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome a record-breaking 18 times, they pioneered “Visual-Kei,” the Japanese music movement that helped spark the current world-wide Anime craze, and their leader has been referred to as “the Bono of Japan.” But the one thing this Guns-N’-Roses-meets-Queen-meets-’The-Matrix’ rock group has wanted to do for years but has never done, is tour America. That’s about to change, as on September 25, X Japan will kick off a seven-city North American trek at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, with subsequent stops in Oakland, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Toronto, and New York. Tickets go on sale today (8/16) and most can be purchased through www.ticketmaster.com or at the venues’ box office.

Dates for X Japan’s North American concert tour debut are:

*SEPTEMBER*
25 Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
28 Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA

*OCTOBER*
1 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
3 Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC CANADA
6 Riviera, Chicago, IL
7 Massey Hall, Toronto, ON CANADA
10 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY

Ticket information: www.xjapanmusic.com

What is Taiji Doing Now?

Monday, April 20th, 2009 by Kathy Chee

Just recently over at Jrocknyc, someone asked, “What is Taiji doing now?”

For those who don’t know, Taiji Sawada was the bassist for X Japan and recorded with them for their first three albums.

Looks like he’ll be making an appearance on May 12th at Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, CA as part of The Killing Red Addiction.  The band also features Dynamite Tommy (ex-COLOR) on vocals, Tatsu (ex-GASTUNK) on guitars and Kenzi (ex-KAMAITACHI) on drums.

With Heath’s management still battling it out, could we see Taiji popping up at the Tokyodome shows on May 2 and 3?

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