Articles Tagged ‘Japan’

Jul
10
Chatmonchy serves Dessert with DVD

Chatmonchy serves up “Dessert”, the final dish of their four-course “Restaurant” DVD series. Chatmonchy Restaurant Dessert, which comes out August 26th, features rare footage

Jul
7
REAL’ – “Usotsuki”

“ウソツキ” (Usotsuki, liar) is the latest single from rap-rock outfit REAL’ (レアルダッシュ, real dash). Some of the song is sung as a conversation and while “Usotsuki” rocks…

Jul
4
BIGMAMA – “Diamond Ring”

The PV for “ダイヤモンドリング” (diamond ring) by BIGMAMA has arrived and it’s pretty awesome. It’s not as blow-you-away amazingly catchy as some of their songs like “Paper-craft”…

Jul
2
UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, BIGMAMA, and others hit the road during Silver Week

BIGMAMA, Local Sound Style, stack44, and UNISON SQUARE GARDEN are teaming up

Jul
2
lego big morl – “Afureru”

“溢れる” (Afureru, to flood) is the latest single from lego big morl. It’s the first release since the band’s debut album, Quartette Parade, which came out back…

Jul
1
July releases to be excited about

Judging from SparkPlugged’s release calendar, July will to be a great month for music. So, we compiled a week-by-week list of all the upcoming albums & singles we’re excited for.

Jun
27
RADWIMPS – “Kiseki” (blast from the past)

Here’s a blast from the past, RAD style! I really like the album version of “祈跡” (Kiseki), which appeared on RADWIMPS’ second album in 2005 but I…

Jun
25
AKLO to Sora – “Moonlight”

“Moonlight” is the latest from dynamic acoustic hip-hop duo AKLOと空 (AKLO to Sora). That’s an interesting blend from an interesting pairing. MC AKLO is Mexican-Japanese and has…

Jun
3
Fed MUSIC – “rewind you”

It’s been a while since we rocked out…so, here’s the latest sweetness from Fed MUSIC. “rewind you” is the band’s third single and it came out on…

May
14
The Yoshida Brothers’ Prism

Prism is a befitting title for the latest album from the masterful shamisen-playing sibling duo Yoshida Brothers.