This week’s gusts were JUN SKY WALKER(S) and DAOKO.
JUN SKY WALKER(S) – START / Fanfare
DAOKO – BANG!
Rock band Cö shu Nie have just dropped a delightful new music video for their latest single “Supercell“, due out on the 25th of September. The video intersperses footage of the band playing in a darkened warehouse with some footage of dancer Miku Kageyama being showered down in a cell (or in this case, a “Supercell”). It’s a simple but effective clip that really adds to the track. The video was directed by FOCHA! (the creative team of Asami Shigemitsu × Tomohiro Ohgishi) and the song features support drum work from Ryosuke Fujita.
Coming hot off the heels of their 3rd mini album “Puzzle” (released in April), Cö shu Nie once again deliver a solid track, and a neat video to go along with it!
Watch it after the gap!
Following a relatively quiet year, veteran hard-rock duo B’z have announced that they will be performing the theme song for the upcoming movie “Shippu Rondo“. The track, titled “Fukiarenasai”, has been described as a dramatic and tension-filled number that is intended to evoke a similar feeling to the flashy fight scenes typically found in action flicks.
“Shippu Rondo” is based on the novel of the same title and centers on Kazuyuki Kuribayashi (Hiroshi Abe), a senior researcher at a university and a father whom is having difficulty connecting with his adolescent son. When an illegal biological weapon is stolen from the lab and the entire country held hostage, Kazuyuki is tasked with retrieving the experiment at any cost.
Though there was no further information made available regarding the release date for “Fukiarenasai”, you can get a taste of the track in the trailer just below the cut.
Rock band ONE OK ROCK have been signed to Fueled By Ramen, an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, AltPress reports.
“I’m proud to welcome ONE OK ROCK to the Fueled By Ramen family,” comments Fueled By Ramen President Mike Easterlin. “Their monumental rise in Japan has been thrilling to watch and we look forward to launching the next chapter of their career here in the US and around the globe.”
Aiming to finish an active year on a high note, jazz/pop singer Keishi Tanaka has announced that he will be releasing a new album titled “What’s A Trunk?” on November 9th. Included on this release will be previously released tracks such as “Hello, New Kicks” (arranged by Tokyo Recordings), “Toumeishoku no Cruising” (his collaboration with fox capture plan) and “Just A Side Of Love” (his joint track with LEARNERS) as well as seven new songs for a total of ten.
Though the album is only intended to be released in a single CD-based version, an analog variant of the release will go on sale a week early on November 3rd in order to celebrate “Record Day” in Japan.
Read on below for a look at the cover and track list for “What’s A Trunk?”, as well as the album’s trailer, which features previews of new songs “What A Happy Day” and “Fuyu no Ao” (featuring duo Ropes).
After releasing their latest album “DEAR.” last July, Hey! Say! JUMP is back with a new single titled “Fantastic Time” to be released on October 26!
This ain’t the expected single for Yamada’s upcoming drama just yet, but will serve as the opening theme song for the YTV/NTV anime “Time Bokan 24”. The anime will start airing on October 1.
In the “present” that connects the past and the future, let your heart beat with excitement as you charge forward powerfully. That’s the message of this powerful song!! No previews of the song yet, but the tracklist is out and will include “Practice Time”, a choreography video for the powerful dances of the song.
Check out the details below.
It’s been a while since we last saw Yoshitaka Yuriko in a drama, after actually breaking out in the 2014 Asadora series “Hanako to Anne”. But she’s back and she’s taking the lead role for NTV’s new Wednesday drama Tokyo Tarareba Musume (Tokyo “What If” Girls). Viewers will have to wait a bit though as it will premiere in January 2017, and will come after the Ishihara Satomi drama next season.
The drama is based from Higashimura Akiko’s manga series. Yoshitaka will play the lead character, Komata Rinko, a young woman who lives in Tokyo and works as an unsuccessful screenwriter.
In the drama, Rinko, Kaori, and Koyuki are 3 young, single women who aren’t very lucky in their love lives or their professional careers. They often gather together to commisserate and to play out “what-if” scenarios in which they imagine what their lives could be like. One day, Rinko decides that she’s going to find the man of her dreams and get married before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics come to town.