• Interview with L~Lotus~

    L~Lotus~ is a five-piece band comprising of three ex. as milk members – 蓮華 (Renka) on vocals, saki and Takayuki on guitars, masato on bass, and YUJI on drums. They officially began their activities on March 6th and have released three digital singles to date: 「worry」 on May 19th, 「snow」 on May 26th, and 「tree」 on June 2nd. The members of L~Lotus~ sat down with us to answer a couple of questions, so give it a read to get to know them better! We’d like to thank JapanFiles... Read→

  • Interview with -LEON-

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  • Interview with GLACIER

    GLACIER is a five-member group from Okinawa, comprising of Makoto on vocals, Nao on lead guitar, Koujirou on rhythm guitar, Aki on bass, and Yuuki on drums. The band formed in July 2007 and made their major debut a year later on July 23rd. They have released a full album and six singles to date with their seventh single, 「愛の降る街」 (Ai no Furu Machi) which is the third installment of a 7-month digital release project, coming out on June 30th through JapanFiles and on iTunes. The members... Read→

  • Interview with O-PARTS

    O-PARTS is a two-man unit that started in June of 2009, formed by vocalist sho-ka (ex. Vogus Image) and bassist Jun (GaGaaalinG, ex. WAIVE). On August 20th, they released their first maxi-single entitled 「向日葵」 (Himawari) which included four tracks, all of which made it into the top ten of the Oricon Indies ranking. On May 26th, their second maxi-single, 「煌[kou]」 was released and will be available through JapanFiles from June 6th. Both sho-ka and Jun took time out of their busy schedules... Read→

  • Interview with Kaya

    In 2002, Kaya made his vocal debut in the Mana produced two-man unit, Schwarz Stein. In 2004, Schwarz Stein disbanded, and departing from the label the band was signed to, Kaya became a free singer. Using “aesthetics” as his main theme, Kaya conducts his activities with the goals of “the revolution of the aesthetic senses” and the “liberation of sexuality” in mind, and manages his own lyrics, CD jacket designs, make-up and costume designs as well as the organization... Read→

  • Interview with born

    born is a five member band that began together under RENNY AMY, which was active from August 2005, until December 31st, 2006. Shortly after, the same five members created D&L, and eventually changed their name to ‘born’ on April 9th, 2008 with the sponsored event at Takadanobaba AREA called “born presents 「bug scremo vol.01」”. About a week later, they released their first demonstration single, entitled 「Dust pain」, which was followed by the tour, 「Abnormal skin’s」. Since... Read→

  • Interview with Satsuki

    砂月-Satsuki- began his solo career on February 14th, 2009, after spending seven years as the vocalist for RENTRER EN SOI. His first solo release, 「AWAKE」 came out via his online shop on May 9th, and that month he also started his 「AWAKENING TO MOONLIGHT」 tour, which even made a stop in Los Angeles, California. His next release, 「CRYSTAL」 was out on August 21st, which was followed by his 「PEER INTO YOUR CRYSTAL HEART」 tour, where he preformed in both Tokyo and Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Read→

Posted on August 23, 2010 in Oneman, Session

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It appears that there is a oneman live for the session band Kaleidoscope, check it out:

Kaleidoscope oneman Live
『DIVA‐Kaleidoscope Special-』
Shibuya RUIDO K-2
Sunday October 10th 2010
Part 1: Open:15:30/Start:16:00
Part 2: Open:18:30/Start:19:00

Ticket Fee:
Adv: 3,300yen
Day: 3,800yen
Tickets go on sale Saturday, Sept. 4th

Members:
Vo:Kaya
Ba:Shingo (ex.Sugar)
Dr:Atsuto (ex.Sugar)

Guest Member:
Gt:Sae (ex.BABYLON)
Gt:Minamoto Iori(cocklobin)
key: Tokita Nozomi
key: ●● (Will be announced later!)
There are tickets being sold separately for part one and part two, so please be careful.
It’s been a long time since Kaleidoscope had a oneman live! The members will be awesome this time. Please look forward to more information about it!

Source: pinkblood, Atsuto’s blog

Posted on May 30, 2010 in Pause

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cocklobin have announced on their OHP that they’ll be going on activity pause:

To all of our fans, and everyone who is connected to the band,

On May 16th after our our oneman live, 「再生」 (Saisei), we have decided to go on a temporary activity pause.

The reason for our activity pause is that although up until today we’ve been active for about a year and a half repeatedly doing lives and producing various works, we want to improve our music and in order for that to happen, were are making it public that cocklobin will be pausing from activites (lives and so forth).

The members all took many things into consideration, however after many meetings we decided that we couldn’t create new music with the way things are now. We hope that you can understand that we feel it is necessary for us to give undevided attention to making music, and therefore decided to take a break from live activities.

Furthermore, we have not yet decided when exactly we will be resuming our acitivites, however, when we have finished taking our time to create our new works, we will update with news of a new release and so forth.

Due to the member’s desire to perform, we will be performing at the live that we have planned for August 9th.

Until we restart our activities, we feel that there may be some fans who are worried about the break, however, it’s necessary for us so that we can create wonderful pieces, and return in front of you all. We hope that you will continue to support us.

cocklobin Members and Staff

The band’s last live before the pause will take place on the 9th of August at Nagoya BOTTOM LINE and will be entitled 『拝啓x様~麝香連理想~』(Haikei Yuu-sama~Jakou Renri Sou~) . Actually it’s the live when 雀羅 (Jakura) will be having their one-day revival and also when Seika’s new band will hold its first live.

Other performing bands are 凛 (Rin),-S-, Dolly, 砂月 (Satsuki), cocklobin, sho-ka, LADY, Schwein, 侍待 (Samuraimachi) and ジ・ハード (Ji・had).

The live is free to attend so make sure to go there if you have a chance!

Source: OHP

Posted on February 24, 2010 in Costumes, News

cocklobin-new-look

Thanks to Jinx for the head’s up.

It seems cocklobin have recently updated their official site with their new look.

What do you think of it?

Source: OHP

Posted on January 23, 2010 in Oneman

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cocklobin have just announced that they’ll hold their first oneman live on the 16th of May at Shibuya RUIDO K2, entitled 「再生」 (Saisei). More details, such as the prices, will be announced soon.

Source: OHP

Posted on January 22, 2010 in Track Listing

cocklobins-mini-albums-tracklist

cocklobin have updated their OHP with some details about the mini-album, which we’ve already mentioned here. First of all we finally know how much the CD will cost – 2460 yen. Secondly, the tracklist is available:

01. ATMAN
02. 生まれ落ちた世界 (Umare Ochita Sekai)
03. WELCOME
04. GAMUT
05. DELIC
06. WHEEL OF FORTUNE

Source: OHP

Posted on January 10, 2010 in Lives

kyoukutou-girl-friend-album-release-lives

In addiction to the free oneman live to commemorate the release of their first album, KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND will also be putting on three additional lives later this month to celebrate its release. Information is as follows:

January 23rd HOLIDAY SHINJUKU
Performing: KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND, cocklobin, 次世代エキサイト (Jisedai Excite), THE MAD SIMPSON, トーマス (THOMAS), gaudie.
Tickets will be 3000 yen in advance and 3500 yen the day of and are on sale now.

January 29th Fushimi HeartLand STUDIO
Performing: KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND, cocklobin, amber gris, meth., gaudie., EAT YOU ALIVE
Tickets will be 2800 yen in advance and 3300 yen the day of and are on sale now.

January 30th Nishikujou BRAND NEW
Performing: KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND, cocklobin, amber gris, Cla vi us, アヲイ (Awoi), exist†trace
Tickets will be 2800 yen in advance and 3300 yen the day of and are on sale now.

Source: KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND OHP, cocklobin OHP

Posted on January 10, 2010 in New release

cocklobins-new-mini-album

Some great news for you guys! cocklobin will release a brand-new mini-album on the 24th of March. It will be entitled 「死と再生」 (Shi to Saisei) and contain 6 tracks. More details to follow.

Source: Jishubanclub

Posted on December 18, 2009 in Tour

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cocklobin and 9GOATS BLACK OUT have announced that they will be having a coupling tour this April called 【 deep sleepers 】.

The tour dates and venues are as follows:
April 2nd @ Takadanobaba AREA
April 4th @ Sendai HOOK
April 6th @ Niigata JUNKBOX mini
April 8th @ Kanazawa AZ
April 18th @ Nagoya ell.FITSALL
April 20th @ Osaka MUSE
April 22nd @ Hakata DRUM SON
April 23rd @ Okayama IMAGE

Tickets for each of the shows cost 3500 yen a piece, and general ticket sales begin February 6th. They are doing a special pre-sale ticket selling from December 22nd until January 8th. More information on that is available here on 9GOATS BLACK OUT’s OHP.

Souce: cocklobin’s OHP

Posted on October 22, 2009 in News

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cocklobin has posted the following announcement on their OHP in regards to their live on October 24th at Sendai HOOK:

Two days ago, a close relative of ouer bassist, HISAKI, was in an unfortunate accident.
Therefore, HISAKI will be unable to perform with us on October 24th at Sendai HOOK.
On that day, we will perform with just four members.

We deeply apologize to our fans, those organizing the event and the livehouse staff for the trouble.

The remaining members, along with our staff, will continue to put our all into the rest of our tour, and will aim for the best performance. On the 26th in Osaka, HISAKI will make his return, so as he will be trying his best, please give him a bit of extra support and your understanding.

cocklobin

Source: OHP

Posted on October 6, 2009 in New release

cocklobin-first-maxi-single

cocklobin announced that they will be releasing their first maxi single, titled “black”, on November 4th. It will cost 1260 yen and contains three tracks: the title track “black”, and two additional songs titled “reborn” and “hearts”, respectively. It is also important to note that this single will be released in stores. The band has also released the artwork for this single:

And finally, the band has released a new look which can be viewed on their OHP!

Source: OHP

Posted on September 10, 2009 in News

cocklobin-staff-blog

cocklobin now has an official staff blog!

Source: OHP, BMA

Posted on August 31, 2009 in Lives

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In honor of UnsraW commencing activities and recording again, SPEED DISK is presenting a live September 23rd at Takadanobaba AREA entitled SPEED DISK PRESENTS「桜華乱舞」-UnsraWレコ発ライヴ- (SPEED DISK PRESENTS 「Ouka Rappu」-UnsraW commence recording live-). Playing along with UnsraW will be cocklobin, .EXE, VELGREED, PRIMEADDICT, ReivieЯ, and 闇撫 (Yaminade). Tickets cost 3000 yen and have already gone on sale as of August 15th.

Source: cocklobin OHP

Posted on August 31, 2009 in Tour

meth-joins-deathlobin

You may remember the coupling tour we talked about here featuring cocklobin and Deathgaze titled “Deathlobin”. Well they have added a special guest band, meth.! Dates and places have remained the same.

Source: cocklobin OHP

Posted on August 10, 2009 in New release

cocklobin-releases-x-2

cocklobin’s mini-album, 「DARK DESIGN CATALOG」, which we talked about here, will be going on sale country-wide starting September 9th!

Originally, the mini-album was only available via mail order, but they have decided to offer it in CD stores, making it more readily available to all fans.

As a refresher, it’s a five track mini-album for 2400 yen:
1.chloe
2.the dark
3.coil
4.翼 (Tsubasa)
5.cock

The band will also be releasing their first maxi-single this year! It comes out on November 14th, costs 1260 yen and is titled 「BLACK」:
1. black
2. reborn
3. hearts

Source: Brand-x

Posted on August 6, 2009 in New member

new-members-for-cocklobin

cocklobin has added not one, but two new members to their line-up!

Now on bass, is HISAKI [ex-13, ex-Black:List] and on drums, is キリ (Kiri) [ex-gazelle, ex-WORLD is MINE], who has been doing support for cocklobin since April.

Both members have their blogs and profiles set up on the site, so make sure you check them out!

Source: OHP

Posted on July 29, 2009 in Tour

deathlobin

DEATHGAZE and cocklobin are teaming up for a coupling tour called 「HYBIRD Coupling Tour – デスロビン – (Deathlobin ) which will kick off in October:

October 24th @ Sendai Hook
October 26th @ OSAKA RUIDO
October 29th @ Matsuyama SALON KITTY
November 2nd @ Nagoya HeartLand STUDIO
November 4th @ Takanobaba AREA

All the lives except for the final on the 4th cost 3000 yen. The live at Takadanobaba AREA is 3300 yen. Tickets will go on sale starting August 8th.
Source: DEATHGAZE OHP

Posted on June 2, 2009 in Myspace, Sampling

cocklobin-releases-samples

cocklobin has released samples of four of the five songs on their upcoming mini-album release through their Myspace. Also, the track previously titled クロエ [kuroi] has been renamed to ‘chloe’.

Source: OHP, Myspace

Posted on May 20, 2009 in Release

cocklobin-minialbum-release-date-and-tracklist

Back in April, Ichibayo brought you the news about cocklobin’s first mini-album, DARK DESIGN CATALOG. The release date has officially been announced as June 29th and will cost 2400 yen. They have also released the tracklisting, which is as follows:

1. クロエ kuroi
2.the dark
3.coil
4.翼 tsubasa [wings]
5.cock

It seems that they will be taking orders through an email reservation system and also through the post. Unfortunately for fans not living in Japan, they will be unable to send copies to countries overseas at this time.

They have also updated their OHP and added a new picture of the band.

Source: OHP

Posted on May 11, 2009 in Lives

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Sugar is presenting a live titled 『Last of state dinner』 on June 12th at Takadanobaba Area. Performing with Sugar will be 9GOATS BLACK OUT, 摩天楼オペラ (Matenrou Opera), cocklobin and emmuree. Tickets go on sale May 16th and will cost 3,000 yen in advance or 3,500 yen the day of.

Source: cocklobin OHP

Posted on April 21, 2009 in Release

first-mini-album-for-cocklobin

Introduced on ST back in November, cocklobin has finally announced their so long-awaited first release ! For now, most details are left unknown, but we can already tell you that it’s going to be a mini-album that will be available in June !

Good news for all those who have been waiting for that day to come, just a bit more than a month before 「DARK DESIGN CATALOG」’s release !

Sources : Trombe, OHP

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