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Haikara’s ‘Dreams’
Following the release of their third album “San”, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR will be releasing a new single on August 1, 2007, called “Dreams”. Tenth single release from HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR features a brand new ballad about the sadness of breaking up. Single also appears as the outro theme to anime series “Darker Than…
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ORANGE RANGE’s ‘Orange’
Following the 7/18/07 release of their single, “Ikenai Taiyou”, ORANGE RANGE will be releasing two discs of their greatest hits. The title of the discs will simply be “Orange”. Greatest hits collection from Orange Range includes their complete singles up until their 2006 album “Orange Range.” Split into type A and type B with different…
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ORANGE RANGE’s ‘Ikenai Taiyo’
ORANGE RANGE’s latest single, “Ikenai Taiyou”, will be released on Wednesday, July 18, 2007. New single release from Orange Range features a retro pop killer sound! Limited edition includes bonus DVD with footage from the band’s March 2007 performance at Zepp Tokyo. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and…
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Digging Yanawarabaa
Currently collecting a lot of play counts on my iPod and in iTunes is “Haikei (maru maru) san” from an indies J/O-pop duo (Rio Aizato & Yuu Ishigaki) from Ishigaki called Yanawarabaa. The song also happens to be the theme song for a Yukie Nakama drama called “Erai Tokoro ni Totsuide Shimatta!”. Talk about making…
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Amuro collaborates with ‘Golden Eggs’ – Tokyograph
Her new album, “Play”, hits record store shelves on June 27, 2007, and so far 2007 is looking like a great year for Amuro. Amuro collaborates with ‘Golden Eggs’ Namie Amuro is collaborating with the computer-animated series “The World of GOLDEN EGGS”, which has become increasingly popular among young people. Amuro will appear as a…
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Misako Koja and Kazuya Sahara
It doesn’t get any better than this folks. Misako Koja (known as a member of the 1st generation Nenes and for the hit song “Warabigami”) is in Hawaii now and let me tell you, she and her husband (composer, arranger) Kazuya Sahara are two of the most down-to-earth people you may ever meet. It’s a…
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melody. Takes It Up a Notch for 2007
She’s one of my favorite J-Pop artists and it looks like 2007 is going to be a big year for the Hawaii-born melody. With the release of her forthcoming single “Love Story” (video) looming ahead of us at the end of this month, melody.’s been busy as the VJ for an NHK music show called…
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Cocco’s 6th Album Out in July 2007!!!
Excited! Almost a year after the release of her current album, 2006’s “Zansaian” (VICL-61954), Cocco will be releasing her sixth original album in July of this year (7/25). Titled “Kirakira”, the album will have a total of 18 tracks (!). [Via bounce.com.]
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Karakui.com: Two songs I’m in love with…
Rimi Natsukawa’s latest album (and perhaps her last from the JVC label), “Umuikaji” (VICL-62259), as a whole is pretty good, much like her other 11, yes eleven (we’re going according to her record label’s site), albums. But two songs, both eisaa-flavored, are simply delicious to my ears. Of course, I’m kind of partial to this…
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