..to the United States, for a small five show tour.
Enjoy.

June 2 - Anaheim, CA @ The Grove of Anaheim (Tickets: here and here)
June 5 - Dallas, TX @ The Lakewood Theater (Tickets: here and here)
June 7 - New York City, NY @ TBA
June 9 - Chicago, IL @ TBA
June 12 - Seattle, WA @ […]

Presumably to promote the forthcoming release of their album “Splurge” through Tofu Records, Puffy AmiYumi will make another appearance on the East Coast of the U.S. this coming July. The tour will be a short seven-show stint, and snub Toronto once again (sad day).
Read on.

July 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of the Living Arts
July […]

This June, The Pillows will return to the US with a Mexican stop-over. With more shows rumoured to be on the horizon for Los Angeles and San Francisco, The Pillows have 5 shows currently scheduled. Thanks to Tokyo Nights via gomogoer and Scene writer, Dave, for this info.

June 17 - Mexico City, Mexico
June 18 - […]

Here’s some extra info concerning the two Japanese bands who will perform at this year’s NXNE in Toronto. The good thing is we’ll get to see (what should be) a free show at Yonge-Dunas Square.
Megababe -
June 8th @ El Mocambo; 9:00PM
Jun 10th @ Yonge-Dundas Square (NXNE Indie Music Market); 12:00AM (technically June 11th)
Stone Deaf -
June […]

So, I was trying to sort out what I missed in my large file of Japanese artists on the U.S. iTunes store, and came to the following. I will get to digging around for newer stuff now. Keep your eyes open, too! Contribute to the guide by e-mailing your’s truly at don[at]gomorning.com.
Fumiya Tanaka - Unknown […]

Toronto’s North By Northeast festival, taking place June 8 - 10, 2006 will (as of latest notice) be host to two indie punk rock bands from Tokyo; Megababe and Stone Deaf. The band names are all I have now, but expect more details soon. The list is not complete, so perhaps we’ll see some […]

While this comes as the first time I’ve heard of MUCC, according to GoMo’s resident J-rock expert Codi, they are huge — making this a big announcement. The rockers will be in Baltimore for the 2006 iteration of Otakon (anime convention), which takes place August 4th through 6th.
I throw up some more details later. But […]

After a long hiatus, the iTunes Guide gnome got back to work today. The Guide is now stronger by a factor of these artists: Beni Arashiro, Hiro, Dream, Shonen Knife, and m-flo.

Enjoy!

Just outside of Vancouver, in Burnaby BC, Kumiko Kato will make her Canadian debut at Anime Evolution 2006 in August. The convention runs from August 19th to the 21st on Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Mountain Campus. In addition to Kumiko, the convention will be host to Avex group ZZ, who play as part of […]