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!

Thanks to our old friend, Bobby — of Joypop fame — for resurfacing with this great news for San Jose residents, and Fanime attendees alike.
JapanFiles.com, purveyors of quality rock and roll and Japanese lessons, have announced Musicfest 2006 which will feature legendary Guitar Vader, along with the following list of Japanese indies bands:

Swinging Popsicle
Goofy Style
Miami
Poplar
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The Scene’s favourite lady-rockers, TsuShiMaMiRe, will be making an appearance at Chicago’s AnimeCentral on the weekend of May 5 - 7, 2006. I’ll fill in some more details later on. But until then you can check out the con website or TsuShiMaMiRe’s official page.

Hyde, who will be performing in San Francisco to a sold out crowd on July 6th, has added an earlier date, July 2, in Anaheim, California. He will be performing at House of Blues, and tickets are available at Ticketmaster.
That is all.

Penicillin nano, better known as the vocalst Hakuhei and guitarist Chisato of J-rock band Penicillin will be performing at A-Kon 17 in Dallas, Texas on June 10th, 2005. In addition to Penicillin nano, J-pop solo singer, Kotoko, will be performing.
Read on..or head over to the Shows page.

KOTOKO web
A-Kon 17
Penicillin

I picked these pictures on Flickr up from user wuken on the Keikaku.net Forums. They feature TsuShiMaMire, The Emeralds, Stance Punks, and Rodeo Carburetor. Be sure to thank him with comments on the pics!
Hit it. (look for galleries on the left)

Lead singer of L’Arc~en~Ciel, HYDE will be performing in San Francisco on July 5th to mark the release of his domestic album FAITH (out June 27) from Tofu Records.
Read on for details..or visit the Shows page.

Included on “Faith” will be Countown, theme of Japanese film “Stealth,” as well as Season’s Call, which is the theme […]

As was reported here some time ago, Rightsscale Inc. was to launch a new music service in February called Donburi Tunes. However, Google will bring you here before it brings you to the appropriate location with many keywords. So to ease the pain of searching, I give you Donburi Tunes, which can also be reached […]

In this second special feature interview, we talk to Takeshi of the Japanese indie rockers, Ellegarden. I’ll let him to the rest of the talking.
Don’t miss it.
Riot on the Grill at Amazon.com

As I mentioned some time ago, an Ellegarden interview was on it’s way. Well, that interview is now complete. However, it’s is currently in the translation pipeline. I will give you a teaser with an excerpt from the interview with the Japanese rock band who will be attending SXSW XX.
Read on for the goods..
…and don’t […]