PUFFY and Sukima Switch Perform on Good Time Music’s Debut Episode

On Tuesday night, TBS debuted its new music show, “Good Time Music.” The show is hosted by Oikawa Mitsuhiro and Dream Ami, with the assistance of Sasagawa Yuri. The guests on the debut episode were PUFFY and Sukima Switch.

PUFFY – Nagisa ni Matsuwaru Et Cetera

Sukima Switch – Hanatsu

X4 to Release Debut Album “Funk,Dunk,Punk”

On May 25, X4 will release their debut album “Funk,Dunk,Punk.” The album will come in 3 editions: CD+DVD Limited Edition A, CD+DVD Limited Edition B, and CD only Regular Edition.

X4 recently released the music video for a new song on the album, “Rainbow Road.” The clip for the EDM song was shot in Yokohama as the city comes into spring. Check it out after the jump, along with more information on the album!

Bokutachi no iru tokoro. bring back nostalgic memories with new music video

The band that brought one of last years most exhilarating and surprising rock albums have just dropped the first music video from their long awaited new album. Announced all the way back in October last year, the album “Gomi” is finally almost here- due out on May 2. The new single ‘Danbooru Kanojo’ continues their trend of bringing classic, dirty rock to the scene and the video really pushes that image to the forefront. Watch here:

HKT48 and Himuro Kyosuke Top the Oricon Charts for the Week of 4/11 – 4/17

This week, HKT48 topped the Oricon single chart with their new single “74 Okubun no 1 no Kimi e”, selling 238,828 copies in its first week.

Himuro Kyosuke topped the Oricon album chart with his new album “L’EPILOGUE”, selling 85,051 copies in its first week.

Enjoy a Summer Date in Shiggy Jr.’s “Koishitara Baby” PV

For the last two years, the arrival of summer was followed by a new sweet jam from city pop outfits, Shiggy Jr. This year around though, they are a little bit early as just a few days ago the PV for Koishitara Baby drops, straight from their upcoming EP with the same title—out on May 25.  As always, the band delivers a feel-good, happy track that is just perfect for city driving in the summer. Read on below to catch the PV and the tracklist for Koishitara Baby EP!

Utada Hikaru Tops the Digital Singles Charts for the Week of 4/13 – 4/19

This week, Utada Hikaru topped both Recochoku and iTunes with her comeback single, “Hanataba wo Kimi ni.”

Kanjani Eight’s Murakami Shingo Explains a Night Out To Matsuko Deluxe, “Of course I’m the Real thing, You Fool”

On Nippon TV’s, April 18th episode of the “Monday Late Show” Kanjani Eight’s Shingo Murakami (34) provided Matsuko Delux (43) with a scoop of him appearing alone with a woman in public.

On that day, he was invited to a meal by a friend who came to look at his stage. They enjoyed Chinese food as a group of 5, 3 men and 2 women, in Shibuya. After the meal was over, one woman returned because  she “had work the next day.” They were invited to drink, but his two male friends caught a taxi and headed home.

Read what else Murakami and some netizens had to say about the incident below!

Morimoto Ryutaro Returns to Showbiz with New Group “ZERO”

Hey!Say! JUMP ex-member, Ryutaro Morimoto makes his return to the entertainment world after a four year hiatus. He was originally the youngest member of Jump but left JE after his underage smoking scandal emerged. Since his departure, he has opened an account on Twitter and occasionally uploaded YouTube videos. Today was the launch of his official LINE blog.

More details after the jump!