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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

[interview] Dir en grey and the truth of being human

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 by Catherine Catanzaro
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Die, Kaoru, Kyo, Toshiya, Shinya

It’s Friday the thirteenth, and a miserable one at that. Thick cloud cover casts New York in a sallow, wan light, and the sky sputters icy raindrops that whisper against umbrellas the promise of a deluge. I’m walking down 23rd Street in Manhattan, and around me pedestrians are hurrying to their destinations, eager to escape the rain and cold. As unpleasant as the weather is this afternoon, not far ahead stands a large group of people who seem perfectly content to stay outside in the rain. Wrapped in plastic bags and cheap ponchos and huddling under makeshift cardboard shelters, the line of a few hundred college-aged people winds around two corners and threatens to overtake a third.

No, their ad-hoc cardboard signs proclaim, they’re not homeless. This isn’t a line for a soup kitchen. They’re here for Dir en grey.

Tonight is the second show of the Japanese rock giants’ three night booking at the Gramercy Theater. Some of these people have been sitting outside the theater since the first show let out on Wednesday night. I am personally acquainted with many of these fans: I was one of them too once, waking up at insane hours and waiting on line all day to ensure a good spot in the crowd. I say my hellos to all the familiar faces on the line, but today I’m not here to sit around on the concrete. I’m on my way to meet up with Dir en grey’s roadie-cum-translator Nora and an as-of-yet unknown member of the band for a short interview before the show.
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Why Kant Kyo Sing

Monday, April 6th, 2009 by boo

Bad news for Dir en grey fans, the band has had to postpone their ongoing FEAST OF V SENSES tour dates for Sendai and Sapporo following news that Vocalist Kyo has been diagnosed with laryngeal edema which has caused inflammation of his vocal chords. Here’s wishing the crazy chainsaw chihuahua a speedy recovery!

Karmic love to anyone who gets the obscure music reference in the title of this post.

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