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Yu Yamada blogs from HEY!³
Model/Actress/Singer Yu Yamada has a new single, “leave all behind,” scheduled for release on April 23, 2008. To promote the upcoming single, she recently blogged about her appearance on the music show “HEY! HEY! HEY! MUSIC CHAMP” which is still without an air date — she says she’ll post the date it’ll air as it…
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Orange Range does “Code Geass” opening, ending – Tokyograph
ORANGE RANGE will release its new single ‘O2 ~Oo Tsuu~’ on May 28. This will mark the first time ORANGE RANGE member YAMATO takes the lead vocal for a song. ‘O2’ will be the opening theme to the TBS anime series ‘Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2‘ that starts on April 6. In addition,…
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9 years, 3 months was well-worth the wait
Great, great, news folks. Namie Amuro’s latest (and very awesome) single, “60s 70s 80s,” will be at the top spot on Oricon’s weekly rankings chart dated for March 31. The single, which debuted at the second spot behind Kanjani Eight’s “Wahaha,” will be Amuro’s first single to hit the sweet spot in sales since 1998’s…
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YouTube: ORANGE RANGE’s ‘Kimi Station’ (PV)
ORANGE RANGE’s latest single “Kimi Station” — which is fantastic — was released less than a week ago and here’s the PV of it. I admire that they remain true to their roots in Okinawa and you’ll find that they often shoot their PVs on location there.
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Enjoy Namie Amuro’s “60s 70s 80s” beautiful album cover art
Namie Amuro’s latest (and very awesome) single, “60s 70s 80s,” hits stores a week from today but we can already enjoy the beautiful album cover art which is available here and here. (Via International Wota.)
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Quick review of Namie Amuro’s “60s 70s 80s” single
Continuing onto 2008 with a very successful 2007, Namie Amuro’s new Triple A-Side single (to be released on 3/12/08), “60s 70s 80s,” is simply amazing so far. The first song, “New Look,” (PV below) samples The Supremes’ hit song from 1964 “Baby Love” to great effect. Hearing the original on the radio yesterday, I found…
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J-pop singer melody.’s first single of 2008: ‘Haruka’
Long a favorite J-pop artist of mine, melody. will release her first single of the year on February 13. The single, “Haruka,” is the theme song for the J-drama “Daisuki!!” from the TBS network. The single will also include the songs “Plumeria” (no doubt a tie-in to her roots in Hawaii) and an English cover…
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Orange Range sings theme for “Lost Time Life” – Tokyograph
I blogged about this a couple of days ago but I didn’t have a title for the song at the time so this is really an update. ORANGE RANGE is providing the theme song for the Fuji TV drama series ‘Lost Time Life,’ which premieres on February 2. The song is a love ballad titled…
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ORANGE RANGE announces first CD single release of 2008
ORANGE RANGE will release a new single — yet to be titled (does this mean that they have now until the middle of February to compose/record/produce a song?! 😛 ) — on March 5, 2008. The single follows the band’s hit song “Ikenai Taiyo” which was released in July 2007. (Via bounce.com.)
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Joutou (best) of 2007
What’s a blog without a Best of 2007 list? I’ve been planning to do one for a couple of weeks now but you know how that goes so here it is, barebones and just in for the final day of 2007. BEST ALBUM Artist: Kazutoshi Matsuda Title: Diigunii Genre: Shimauta Released: 6/15/2007 It took him…
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