Anime Festival Asia (AFA) is hosting the "Hatsune Miku Live Party in Singapore 2011" concert November 11th at the SUNTEC Convention Hall as part of AFA’s events. The concert and world-wide stream on NicoNico [here] will start 11/11 at 6:00am EST (3:00am PST) as a pay-per-view event for US$11.00. Japanese views can catch the concert...

Friday November 4th episode of Fuji TV’s Our music will be hosted by YUI with appearances by Goro Kishitani and Kazuyoshi Saito. Part of the show will focus on YUI’s (24) 6th album release on November 2nd, “HOW CRAZY YOUR LOVE.” There will also be a...

Korean seven member idol group RAINBOW, fresh off their debut Japanese release “A” that charted #3 on the Oricon weekly charts for September 12th – 18th, has announced their second Japanese single “MACH.” The single is set for release on December 7th. RAINBOW has...

ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION has titled their new single - "Marching Band" - and its set to be released on November 30th. The single’s title track will be used in CM for "High School Courses - Shinkenzemi" campaign being carried out in support of “Project Oath Attack” to encourage high...

Singer and seiyuu Yui Horie will be releasing her 14th single titled “Coloring” on January 18th 2012. The new single has also been selected as the ending theme for Winter anime “Papa no Iu Koto o Kikinasai!”  (Listen to your Papa) that begins January 2012....

New idol unit ChocoLe’s debut single “Milk and Chocolate” will be released December 28th and its already being featured as the ending theme for anime SKET DANCE. Three junior high school girls (all 14 years old) who are also popular teen fashion models:  Hashimoto Kaede...

Beginning with 500 teams who submitted videos of their dance routines, 10 were selected for the finals of the “Perfume Dance Contest Miseyo JPN!” held on the 29th at Shinagawa Stellar Ball in Tokyo. Perfume helped judge the three month contest and participated in the live finals....

BUCK-TICK will release box-sets of their songs simultaneously in March 2012. One set will cover the 1987-1999 period when they were with Victor Entertainment and the other covers years 2000-2010 when they were with the Ariola Japan label. The CD collections will include their singles during those years, photo booklet, bonus DVD filled...

The new unit formed with Kou Shibasaki, DECO*27, and TeddyLoid - galaxias! - will drop their debut album on November 23. Track list below and jacket covers sport the familiar mascot seen on their websites and twitter account - “guarantee child.” The galaxias! website also has samples of first 4 tracks for your...

Singer Ai’s new song “Utsukushikumono” will be used as the ending theme for Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler which is part 1 of the upcoming 3-part film series adaption of Berserk. To prepare for writing the new song Ai...

the pillows are in their 20th year of releasing singles and will release number #33 titled “Energia” on December 7th. "Energia" will be offered in a Limited CD+DVD edition and a Regular CD-only edition. The sample jacket cover features a girl wearing ‘Candy Stripper‘, a fashion brand with close...

Released on Perfume’s record label Tokuma’s Youtube channel is a full length version for the PV music video for their song “SPICE”.  The new single is set to drop November 2nd and will be featured as the theme song for TBS drama “Sengyoshufu Tantei.” Also catch Perfume on TV...

The website for the live-action film adaptation of CAPCOM's “Ace Attorney” (Gyakuten Saiban) videogame  announced that the rock band Porno Graffitti will provide the film's theme song. Porno Graffitti has been producing singles since 1999 and provided theme songs for numerous projects such as Fullmetal Alchemist and Bleach. They...

TV Asahi's long running music show "Music Station" has announced the performers for their upcoming Friday the 28nd of October show: Perfume, AKB48, KinKi Kids, JAY’ED X JUJU, and Sonar Pocket. Long time duo of Domoto Tsuyoshi...

The second Japanese single release, “Yayaya” from Korean group T-ARA is set for release November 30th. Fresh from their success of their first single, “Bo Peep Bo Peep” Japanese release a month ago that charted #1, the girls are hopeful this catchy song “Yayaya” which is also a previous...

Dominant idol group, AKB48 released their newest single today, “Kaze wa Fuiteiru” and its already a 1+ million seller. Oricon is reporting 1,045,937 in first day sales for the group’s 23rd single. The new single includes fifteen members from AKB48, two from SKE48, and one from NMB48. For the...