Mais, oui! C’est vrais. Maintenant vous pouvez lire l’interview d’Ellegarden..en français.
Merci, V²-Stuff pour cette traduction.
Original here. Translation follows.

Ceci est le deuxième épisode de notre série spéciale d’interviews. Cette fois-ci nous parlons à Takeshi, le chanteur du groupe de plus en plus populaire ELLEGARDEN. N’oubliez pas de voir ELLEGARDEN puisqu’ils participent aux Japan Nite shows des […]

Blair, of TurnItUpSideDown, informs us that FrogPilot will debut their new lineup — now including a second guitarist, Yushi — at the Smiling Buddha Bar (once again) in Toronto on August 5th at 8:00PM for a thrifty $5. For the record, that adds to the previous lineup of Satoshi, Takashi, and Kodo Ryuji.

Nana Kitade, as seen in the previous post relating to some Otakon-related issues, will also be seen in Virgin Megastores in the cities of New York, Boston, and San Francisco. There she will be performing, meeting, signing autographs, and generally doing the things one does at a record store appearance.
Check out the times and […]

The below is from the horse’s mouth (in this case, Tofu Records, of course). Where it speaks of fashion show, that is relating to a Gothic and Lolita fashion event to be judged by Yoshiki and Nana Kitade. So..get your parasols ready.

Nana Kitade
Aug. 4
Panel 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Performance 8:00pm
Aug. 5
Fashion Show 10:00 am - […]

The Japan Times featured a couple of articles related to the Scene genre yesterday. The articles entitled “Anime, J-indie equals ‘Woodstock for geeks’,” and “The D.I.Y. route to rock stardom” discuss various items related to Japanese independant music in North America including (now Don-recommended) purveyors of music JapanFiles.com, as well as events previously discussed here, […]

..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 @ […]

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 - […]

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 […]