After their previous U.S. debut on the Japan Girls Night tour in March, Sister Records / Benten Label’s GO!GO!7188 will make their way to three U.S. cities including Chicago, New York, and somewhere in PA.
This time around they are accompanying aspiring “punk” (okay) artist Tokyo Alice as she displays her work. Each city will […]

AnimeFest, a 4-day convention held in Dallas, TX is proud to annouce FLOW as their musical guest for the convention, which runs September 1st through 4th.
FLOW is best known for providing songs for the mega-hit Naruto, and Eureka 7.
Registration is still available!

Anime Evolution, a convention in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, will be hosting such musical guests as Kumiko Kato for their upcoming convention, which runs August 19th-21st.
Slated to appear are j-pop cutie Kumiko Kato, and a fun-time band ZZ Band. From this side of the pond, a visual kei band from Canada called eqlipsE, rockers Keith & […]

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.

This is an updated listing of the previously announced “Splurge Splurge Splurge” tour from the girl-pop duo everyone loves, Puffy AmiYumi — now officially under the Tofu Records label, I might add.

July 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of the Living Arts
July 9 - Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
July 11 - New York, NY @ […]

Yoshiki, producer/pianist/J-rock Legend, will be a guest of honor at this year’s Otakon, located in Baltimore, Maryland. While not scheduled to perform, he will be conducting a panel and possibly autograph signings. Yoshiki was a member of the j-rock band X-Japan, j-pop techno group globe, produced artists such as The Trax, and is currently working […]

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 […]

After some technical difficlties (and I have no idea what caused them) for the last couple of days, we have returned!
You can start breathing again.

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Wow, that band name doesn’t even need additional words to make a headline.
Mysterious e-mailer Ray stands vehemently behind Limited Express (has gone?), and recommends that I inform you all of their U.S. / Canada tour which begins September 8th. I haven’t had a chance to check them out yet, but Japan Files, who describes […]