Boom Boom Satellites announced their final release as a 22 minute long EP titled “LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME“. The EP is composed of four tracks which includes “STARS AND CLOUDS“, “FLARE“, “NARCOSIS“, and “LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME“. The last track currently serves as the opening theme song for the anime Kiznaiver.

Michiyuki Kawashima (Vo/Gu) has been battling a brain tumor and previously announced a hiatus from work to focus on treatment. Last year, his fourth relapse left him with many serious problems. He has difficulty communicating and impairment in his arms and legs. Currently, he is spending time with his family and will not be releasing any new music.

Awesome City Club will release their new album, “Awesome City Tracks 3”, on June 22. Ahead of the album’s release, the band has released the music video for the album’s second track, “Don’t Think, Feel.” In the clip, Awesome City Club takes over a Gap store after dark and throws a party! The feel good, throwback sound of “Don’t Think, Feel” goes along nicely with the video’s neon-saturated party theme, just in time for summer!

The video is a collaboration between Awesome City Club and Gap. The band was chosen as the first of 5 acts for the clothing brand’s Summer Music Lookbook series (HAPPY and never young beach are the next 2, with the last 2 still to be revealed).

Check out the video after the jump, along with more information on Awesome City Club’s new album!

This year’s edition of Avex’s annual festival, a-nation, will be split into 2 parts again. The smaller a-nation island will take place in Tokyo’s Shibuya district July 29 – August 4, while the larger a-nation stadium fes. will take place at Tokyo’s Ajinomoto Stadium August 27 – 28. Today, the first round of acts playing the stadium portion of a-nation were announced! They include Ayumi Hamasaki, Daichi Miura, AAA, SKE48, and Acid Black Cherry. See who else will be performing below!

Well-known rock band RADWIMPS have just announced that they will be releasing a brand new album on August 24th, their first such release since 2013’s “Batsu to Maru to Tsumi to”.  Unlike their past albums however, the majority of this record will be instrumental as it will also serve as the soundtrack for Makoto Shinkai‘s upcoming animated feature “Kimi no Na wa.”, with which the album will share a name.

That said, 4 of the album’s 26 tracks will include vocals:  “Zen Zen Zense”, “Sparkle”, “Yume to Urou”, and “Nandemo Naiya”.  Furthermore, “Kimi no Na wa.” will be released in two different versions – a regular CD-Only edition and a special Limited Edition that will include a DVD which contains an pair of interviews with Shinkai and RADWIMPS, footage of the band’s visit to the animation studio, a look at the environment in which the album was recorded, and a series of solo piano performances carried out by singer Noda Yojiro, as well as a booklet that will include artist photos and a piano score for several of the songs on the release.

Information on the album’s actual track list has yet to be published, so expect additional updates on this release as more details become available.

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This week’s guests were Hiromi Go, Porno Graffitti, and Moriyama Naotaro.

Hiromi Go – IRREGULAR

Porno Graffitti – THE DAY

Moriyama Naotaro – Aa

From drama, comics, SNS, original best album, and dome tour, the HIGH&LOW project brought by LDH continues to expand by being involved in different media and entertainment. Another involvement will be on the regular show “Buzz Rhythm!” which is hosted by the model, MAGGY. Over a period of four weeks, one artist will be appearing to sing a song from the original album.

Popular rock band Spitz recently revealed that they will be releasing their fifteenth studio album next month on July 27th.  The album will be titled “Samenai” and is set to include their previously released songs “Yukikaze”, “Minato”, and “Garakuta” as well as 11 new tracks like “Hibiscus”, which is currently being used as the CM song for Subaru’s latest Forester model.

“Samenai” is planned to be released in four versions:  a Regular CD-Only edition, a Limited CD/Blu-ray edition which will include the music videos for “Minato”, “Hibiscus”, and “Samenai” in addition to off-shot footage from each shoot, and an Analog (Vinyl) edition which will include a comic drawn by Thermae Romae artist Yamazaki Mari.

Read on below to find the music video for the band’s recently released single “Minato”, the commercial featuring their new song “Hibiscus”, and the cover and complete track-listing for “Samenai”.

A One and a Half minute version and 30-second version trailers of the upcoming live-action adaptation of “Your Lie in April” has been released by their official website. The theme song of the movie will be sang by Ikimonogakari with the title “Last Scene”.