With the proximity of this release to the tour, it seems your editor must be slipping, but you still have time to check out the ladies of noodles on their West Coast U.S. tour. This information came by way of faithful gomogoer, Fury.
Read on for the dates and deets..

Feb. 2 - Hollywood @ On […]

Some time ago, I conducted an e-mail interview with all-girl Benten Label band TsuShiMaMiRe. I recently recieved the answers, and had planned to make something fancy out of it. However, time restraints have brought me thus far with no real success in doing that, and the answers are so entertaining and valuable, I cannot wait […]

Our good friends at Rightsscale Inc, along with 7digital (this one?) will be launching in February a new service entitled DONBURI TUNES.
The service will make available to the world a large selection of Japanese music of various genres for downloading. More information is sure to come shortly, so don’t go too far away.
Stay tuned.

Details about the the 2006 version of the Japan Nite event at the South by South West musical festival have been announced. The event, which will be held on Saturday March 18th at Elysium, will feature The Emeralds, The Rodeo Carburettor, PE’Z, Ellegarden, TsuShiMaMiRe and one more band which is to be announced.
In addition to […]

Anime News Network recently posted an interview with Shaun Iwase of Rightsscale Inc., discussing Japanese music on the U.S. iTunes Music Store, and the company’s role in the industry. You will know Rightsscale as the provider of much Japanese content on the iTMS — as listed here on the most useful site ever.
from the interview:
We […]

As a reminder to those who didn’t write down the dates on the Benten release schedule, Red Bacteria Vacuum will ring in 2006 with the second domestic Benten Label release. Roller Coaster was said to be released on January 1st, though Amazon has it listed as January 10th. Whenever it comes, be sure to pick […]