GANGLION is disbanding. :( I have really fond memories of a gig they did near my hometown last year and meeting them.

My friend will specially apply leave to go attend AKIHIDE's birthday concert in July as it will take place on a Tuesday

Now that's dedication :laugh

Wait what? I just discovered them a year ago and really liked them. =( Now I'm sad. =(

I'm getting hooked on listening to TM Network's Beyond The Time on YouTube:

Yuzu is embarking on their 1st Asian tour YUZU ASIA TOUR 2016 Summer NATSUIRO & my country is listed 1st , tour date wise

It's quite nice especially since Yuzu has never perform here although I'm not so keen that avex asia is bringing them in & let alone the venue is the same place where AAA , Perfume , flumpool , Kuu & others used to perform here when they came :x

^I didn't know that you like Yuzu too. I haven't listened all their discography yet but I like them. I discovered them with Sakurae ♥. Lucky you that they are coming for a concert.

Yeah I listen to some of their stuff , not all just the more prominent ones

I just find it funny that for most Japanese artistes that come to my country to perform , it's always the same venue except for Mizuki Nana where she performed at a different venue the 2nd time she came , LUNA SEA (hall) & L'arc~en~ciel (Arena)

I guess avex asia wants to save on cost because *scape is centralised and it's a really small live house venue

The venue that Mizuki Nana performed is considered a hall venue and you have to take additional transport to go to another island , even though you're still technically in Singapore :laugh

Someone on Facebook thought Yamapi is part of KAT-TUN now

I don't know should I laugh or cry over this -_-

Yet another Japanese act will come to Singapore in July and this time round it's MAN WITH A MISSION O_O

AAA really loves S'pore , if not they wouldn't be coming back again to perform

2 days somemore :O

When asked

What would you do with 100 million yen ?

Kanjani∞'s Yokoyama's answer - Create a mountain of chicken nuggets

:roflmao genius answer :laugh

iTunes is making me want to tear my hair out. When I installed the new update back about a month or two ago, the layout of iTunes Store went all fucked up: all the images and text got bigger and fill the screen so much that I can't see the right-side bar with the most popular songs and albums etc. and I can't scroll sideways to see everything, and worst of all, the mouse icon is always a little off and I need to have it a little to the side of whatever I want to click if I actually intend to end up clicking the right object. It's so annoying, and I haven't been able to do anything about it. It keeps me from using iTunes Store though I really want to do things like try to buy GILLE's new album from the Japanese iTunes Store because it hasn't leaked anywhere and I can't really afford to get a physical copy. It's been two and a half months, I need the whole album!

I hoped the newest update that appeared this week would do something to fix this, but no. The Store is still terrible and unusable, some things I liked seem to be gone and even the music library isn't as nice-looking anymore.

You're lucky to have as many japanese artists who are coming in your country to hold a concert.

Now that I saw the covers of MADE IN JAPAN I'm feeling sad and frustrated to not be able to buy more than one copy. I would like to buy all versions so much T_T

^ things definitely can improve because the past few years the same old Japanese acts have been coming back to perform

Like last week , SCANDAL came back & they performed here just last Oct . Likewise for Kyary Pamyu Pamyu last month

I guess for fans of them , it's good but I want other Japanese acts to come , others that haven't perform in S'pore

At least next month Yuzu and MAN WITH A MISSION will be gracing their presence here for the 1st time & flumpool's coming back to perform (which I'm going xD)

It's frankly high time for a Johnnys act to come do a concert here , only problem's who's going to bring them in here ? :x

Also I'm still hoping SPYAIR will someday come to S'pore to perform T_T

You are lucky indeed.
I want more (pop) acts to come to Germany. The only ones so far were Perfume and Kyary Pyamu Pyamu (also Olivia and Kalafina, but only within a convention, not stand alone). Ah, yeah, and color-code just recently. But it was in Berlin and too far away, at least after announcing the European Tour so late.
some bigger acts would be great as well or in bigger locations.

Going to see Babymetal this evening in Stuttgart though. Looking forward to it!

^ I don't know if you like SCANDAL, the girls are going to Germany in September for a concert. There are two dates :

3/09/2016 Cologne, Germany @ Luxor
14/09/2016 Hamburg, Germany @ Kaiserkeller

Mao's SID's Tsuki (which's the 1st A-side of his debut solo single) is almost 7 mins long :dead2 :dead2 :dead2

i've been following the whole Yoochun deal since it started...it still bothers me a lot even though the news kind of died down now.

I wonder who will be the next JRocker to get married cos this year , already 3 did so , inclusive today which flumpool's Ryuuta said he'll be tying the knot next month

And my sister & I will be seeing flumpool yet again in concert so we will convey our best regrets/wishes to Ryuuta next month in person :D

Suiyoubi no Campanella's new album UMA is out and naturally, I love it; I think it might be my favourite release of theirs after Crawl to Gyaku Agari, even though the album doesn't have a big song I REALLY love and go back to all the time, like Medusa or Light Kyoudai on Zipang. But I love that they managed to surprise again, though you'd think that their style should be really predictable by now, with this being their... like, eighth notable release. And of course, to some extent, their music is predictable, but you never know which influences are going to be most prominent whenever they cook up a new album. Listening to UMA, what stands out for me is that KOM_I is rapping less and singing more, the songs are more mellow, melodic and chill, and most of the songs seem to have something I haven't heard from them before; the vocal sample and spacey synth heard in Unico strikes me as something you might hear in a pop song on the radio... but then the song otherwise kinda swerves into a whole different direction and ends up being this pretty, tranquilizing ballad with unexpected amounts of acoustic guitar, which I think is something very unusual for Campanella. Then there's Phoenix with its great house piano and dance beat (and samba influence, if KOM_I's spoken interlude is to be believed?). Yukiotoko Yeti and Kraken also have some new things going on (what even is the sound heard throughout Yeti? I can't even describe it because ugh music words in English), and it's all exhilarating. Baku is kind of a misstep though, I just can't see what they were going for with that one... But overall, what an enjoyable release! My favourite songs are Tsuchinoko, Unico and Phoenix. Also, I LOVE how the album's title stands for Unidentified Mysterious Animal and all the titles are names of mythical animals/creatures... took me way too long to connect the dots, lol.

EDIT: Well, the next day I came across an interview with KOM_I and found out they were working with foreign trackmakers for this album! That sure explains something. Surprisingly, Unico is all them though I thought it was sure to be one of the tracks made with outsiders... Phoenix, Kraken, and Yeti are the tracks made with foreign trackmakers. At least I was right about Chupacabra and Tsuchinoko being made by Campanella all by themselves!

Also, today I finally listened to Haruka and Miyuki's new single Kiseki wo Inoru Koto wo mou Shinai, and it's SO GOOD. They also managed to surprise me: I feel like this is the first time they've done an epic rock ballad like this! I used to be on the fence with enjoying Haruka's vocals, but I've gone all the way to loving her singing; it gets squeaky at times, but at its best, it gives the songs such honesty and rawness, and I think it does just that in this song. I love how the huge chorus just doesn't stop after its second run. Ugh, I can't wait for their new album in August, I hope it's all this good. It's always nice to have albums to look forward to. :heart