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  • 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-

    -LEON- is a five-piece band from Gunma comprising of Yuji on vocals, Shin and Koya on guitars, Yamato on bass, and Masashi on drums. Mixing Asian cultural influences with visual rock, -LEON- has a heavy, modern sound with a distinct, ethereal flavor. On December 13th, the band released their first three track mini-album, 「REGULUS」 along with a PV for their song, 「Kokou ni Tou Tsuioku no Kagen no Tsuki」. The members of -LEON- took time to answer a few of our questions, so take a read through... Read→

  • 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→

NEO VOLTAGE Tour’10
Posted on May 4, 2010 in News, Omnibus, Tour

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Still remember 「NEO VOLTAGE」 omnibus which tracklist Inka shared here? It seems that there will be a tour featured too! Tickets are on sale already and details are as follows.

June 6th ～Sendai VOLTAGE～　　
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Open 16:30 / Start 17:00
Tickets: ￥3,300 advance / ￥3,800 door
Cast：愛狂います。(Aicle.) / Annie’s Black feat.Aioria / キャンゼル (Canzel / ν[NEU] / 花少年バディーズ (Baddies) / HERO / ベルベット (VelBet)

June 10th ～Osaka VOLTAGE～
@ Osaka・OSAKA MUSE　
Open 16:30 / Start 17:00
Tickets: ￥3,300 advance / ￥3,800 door
Cast：愛狂います。(Aicle.) / exist†trace / シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER) / ν[NEU] / 花少年バディーズ (Baddies) /【_Vani;lla】/ HERO / ベルベット (VelBet)

June 11th ～Nagoya VOLTAGE～　　
@ Nagoya BOTTOM LINE　
Open 16:30 / Start 17:00
Tickets: ￥3,300 advance / ￥3,800 door
Cast：愛狂います。(Aicle.) / exist†trace / シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER) / ν[NEU] / 花少年バディーズ (Baddies) /【_Vani;lla】/ HERO / ベルベット (VelBet)

June 18th ～Tokyo VOLTAGE～
@ Shibuya O-EAST
Open 16:30 / Start 17:00
Tickets: ￥3,500 advance / ￥4,000 door
Cast：愛狂います。 (Aicle.) / exist†trace / キャンゼル (Canzel) / ゴールデンボンバー (Golden Bomber) / シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER) / ν[NEU] / HERO / ベルベット (VelBet) / 凛 (Rin)　・・・and more

The cover is up too! Do you like it?

Source: Visunavi, Amazon.co.jp

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Tracklist for NEO VOLTAGE omnibus
Posted on April 28, 2010 in Omnibus, Track Listing

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We have already mentioned the omnibus back here, but let me share the tracklist with you:

01. ν [NEU] – 「in my secret…」
02. HERO – Days.
03. exist†trace – unforgive you
04. シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER) – SPACY LOVER
05. 花少年バディーズ (Baddies) – 落陽 (Rakuyou)
06. Aioria – 光彩の沈殿 (Kousai no Chinden)
07. 愛狂います。(Aicle.) - 春夏秋冬 (Shunkashuutou)
08.【_Vani;lla】 – AUTO DEィATH CUSSION-別会議 ver.- (AUTO DEATH CUSSION-Betsu Kaigi ver.-)
09. ゴールデンボンバー (GOLDEN BOMBER) – †ザ・V系っぽい曲† (The V-Keippoikyoku)
10. ベルベット (VelBet) - 四季 (Shiki)
11. キャンゼル (Canzel) - Wish Upon A Star-first edition-
12. 凛 (Rin) – Foolish

Make sure to pre-order it while it’s still available though!

Source: ν[NEU] OHP

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New omnibus
Posted on March 27, 2010 in Omnibus

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New omnibus entitled 「NEO VOLTAGE」 is coming out on the 26th of May. (The same as 「EXPECTATION of FORCE」 which we have already talked about actually). It will cost 2500 yen and the featured artists are:

・ ゴールデンボンバー (Golden Bomber)
・ ν[NEU]
・ シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER)
・ HERO
・ 【_Vani:lla】
・ メガマソ (Megamasso)
・ 愛狂います。(Aicle.)
・ 花少年バディーズ (Baddies)
・ exist†trace

Source: Jishubanclub

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Oneman tour and few sponsored events for Serial⇔NUMBER!
Posted on March 26, 2010 in Event, Oneman, Tour

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It seems that シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER) is really busy celebrating their 5th anniversary!

The band have decided to organise few events under the name 「いちゃりばちょーDAY vol.ゆーち」 (Icharibachou DAY vol. Yuuchi):

Date: March 30th @ Sapporo Messe Hall
Performing: シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER), イロクイ。 (Irokui.), シンディケイト (CINDY&KATE), ハルシオン (Halsion)

Date: April 12th @ Okayama IMAGE
Performing: シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER), Zip.er, シンディケイト (CINDY&KATE)

Date: April 14th @ Fukuoka DRUM SON
Performing: シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER), 猫拳-CatfisT- (Neko Kobushi -CatfisT) , Chain and envy

Tickets for these events will cost 3500 yen a piece.

Secondly, they will be holding a short oneman tour as well! It will be entitled 「ユラリ満開ツアー2010」 (Yurari Mankai Tour 2010). The dates are as follows:

May 14th @ Nagoya ell.FITS ALL
May 15th @ OSAKA MUSE
May 29th @ Shibuya O-WEST

Source: Visunavi, OHP

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random fact of the day
Posted on December 17, 2009 in Random Fact

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Did you know that Jin and Hibiki of シリアル⇔NUMBER have the same birthday days? Yeah their birthdays are on October 15th!!

Easy to remember to buy a gifts when you have 2 band mates with the same birthday right?

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Shyena moves on with V-last
Posted on December 9, 2009 in New band

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Shyena (ex DragonWAPPPPPPER) now has a brand new band! They are called V-last and they have their very first live on December 11th at Shibuya O-West. They are busy guys and have a few lives lined up into the next year, including an event with PS Company Indie on January 10th with bands like ViViD, Virgil, Serial Number and xTRiPx.

Their home page opened today and the members and look was revealed. What do you think?

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(thanks to comments below)
Vocals: Shyena ex.DragonWAPPPPPPER
Guitar: HIRO ex.Vega
Guitar: yoshi ex.Vega
Bass: yukiha ex.NOIR
Drums: MAKO ex.Vega

There is also a staff blog you can follow on ameba over here.

Source: vkdb, HP

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New album for Serial Number
Posted on October 30, 2009 in Event, New release, Tour

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Serial⇔NUMBER will be releasing a new album on November 25th called 「01」 (Teiichi)! The album will contain a total of twelve tracks for 2800 yen and will be available for pre-sale at the sponsored event tour that starts on November 9th.

The tracklisting for the album is as follows:
01. GO!YA!NUMBER～ぬちぐすい～ (~Nuchigusui~)
02. アテンション・プリーズ (Attention Please)
03. COLOR STYLE
04. 愛らシーサー (Aira Shiisaa)
05. 夢人の空 (Yumehito no Sora)
06. ちゅらさんがころんだ (Churasan ga Koronda)
07. チャイニーズリング (Chinese Linking Rings)
08. お疲れサンバ　踊ルンバ (Otsukaresamba Odorumba)

〈Bonus Tracks～Live at AKASAKA BLITZ 2009.08.21～〉
09. シリアル音頭Happy Life～２人のらぶねっと～ [Live Ver.] (Serial Ondo Happy Life ~ Futari no Rabu Netto~)
10. Happy Life～２人のらぶねっと～ [Live Ver.] (Happy Life ~ Futari no Rabu Netto)
11. SQUALL [Live Ver.]
12. ミーとじいちゃんと麻婆茄子 [Live Ver.] (Mii to Jiichan to Maabounasu)

As for their sponsored event tour, it’s called 「いちゃりばちょーDAY vol.みーち」 (Icharibachou DAY Vol. Miichi):

November 9th @ Sapporo MESSE Hall
Featuring: Serial Number, THE KIDDIE, EsoLLa, Halsion

November 11th @ HooK SENDAI (already sold out)
Featuring: Serial Number, THE KIDDIE, DOG in The PWO, vistlip, Himeichigo

November 13th @ Fukuoka DRUM Be-1
Featuring: Serial Number, THE KIDDIE, Canzel, Zip.er, xTRiPx, and others

November 15th @ Okayama IMAGE
Featuring: Serial Number, THE KIDDIE, Wizard, Canzel, Zip.er, xTRiPx, ClearVeil

November 17th @ OSAKA MUSE
Featuring: Serial Number, THE KIDDIE, Wizard, DOG in The PWO, SuG, HERO

November 18th @ Nagoya E.L.L
Featuring: Serial Number, THE KIDDIE, Wizard, DOG in The PWO, vistlip, SuG

November 25th @ Shibuya O-WEST
Featuring: Serial Number, Wizard, DOG in The PWO, vistlip, Himeichigo, HERO

Tickets cost 3500 yen a piece.

Source: OHP

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GOTHIC NUMBER
Posted on September 1, 2009 in New release

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From HearJapan:

Yokohama, Japan – September 2, 2009 – After successfully adding 80 visual kei releases, HearJapan, the digital music store for Japanese music, added the visual kei band Serial Number in March of this year. The band is known for having a light sound, colorful costumes and being an all-around fun band, dubbed ‘oshare kei’ by their fans.

Today, the band showed that there is more to them than just ‘oshare kei’.  Serial Number unveiled an alter ego band consisting of the same members called “Gothic Number”.  If Serial Number represents the light side of visual kei, Gothic Number represents the dark force.  Filled with heavy guitar riffs and screaming, Gothic Number marks a dirty departure for the band, although the lyrics still retain Serial Number’s playful side. Their first single, ‘Wa Ra,’ is a digital-only download available internationally exclusively via HearJapan. The single costs 150 yen and can be downloaded from any country in high-quality mp3 format.

HearJapan has also made available today three other visual kei releases.  These include re-releases of Kisaki project feat. Jyui (Vidoll), Birushana, Shiru de Rais & Iron, and Piass with Ra’s Testars.  HearJapan promises a steady stream of visual kei releases in the future, including more digital-only releases to meet the demand from fans around the globe.

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Links:
Gothic Number – Wara: http://www.hearjapan.com/store/album_info/2089
Piass with Ra’s Testars – Kaikoroku Dai 5 Shou: http://www.hearjapan.com/store/album_info/Kaikoroku_Dai_5_Shou
Kisaki Project feat. Jyui - Kaikoroku Dai 1 Shou: http://www.hearjapan.com/store/album_info/Kaikoroku_Dai_1_Shou_Kanzen_Ban
Birushana, Shiru de Rais & Iron - Kaikoroku Dai 2 Shou: http://www.hearjapan.com/store/album_info/Kaikoroku_Dai_2_Shou_2

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Serial Number loses Kazune
Posted on July 1, 2009 in Departure

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シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial⇔NUMBER) have announced that on August 2nd, their guitarist 和音 (Kazune) will be leaving the band.

Kazune has stated that since last year, he has been thinking and worrying about his future. As time wore on, he gradually realized that his direction is not the same as the other members in the band, and he feels that it is impossible for him to continue on in the band with having such a different opinion in direction. Therefore, he made the decision to leave after the band’s summer tour had come to an end.

Throughout his four years in Serial Number he has experienced fun things, painful things, happy moments, and regretful times. He loves everyone who has been involved in the band, from the members, to the staff to the fans.

He will continue to play his guitar, smiling, all the way until the end.

Source: vkdb, OHP

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Serial Number’s new single
Posted on April 2, 2009 in New release

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Serial⇔NUMBER will be releasing a new single on May 20th!

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The single will be called 「チャイニーズリング」 (Chinese Ring), and will cost 800 yen. This new song is a “rule of right” love song, that makes a big impact and carries at Chinatown theme. Included with the single is a trading card.

Source: Brand-x

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stylish wave EXTRA ’09
Posted on February 10, 2009 in Event

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「stylish wave EXTRA ’09」 which is a multiple band event, is taking place on May 3rd at CLUB CITTA in Kawasaki.

The event will be featuring Wizard, lynch., Himeichigo, Serial Number, SCREW, Irokui. and DaizyStripper.

Tickets for the show cost 4000 yen. Tickets for Poke Shock members went on Sale from January 30th – February 12th, otherwise you can reserve via the band’s OHP until February 17th. Those who get Gab magazine can get their tickets on February 21st or 22nd, otherwise they will be available at Like an Edison in Tokyo, or ZEAL LINK in Shibuya from February 27th onwards, or through Lawson and Ticket Pia starting on March 7th.

Source: BMA, StarChildren24

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Serial’s new look
Posted on December 31, 2008 in Costumes

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We’ve talked about Serial Number’s new release here but I wasn’t sure people saw their new look! They are still so colorful XD!!!!

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Source: SN lj comm,  HP

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Serial Number’s new release
Posted on December 3, 2008 in New release

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シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial Number) is releasing a new CD on January 21st called 「ちゅらさんがころんだ」 (Churasan ga Koronda).

The release will be 800 yen, and although a tracklist hasn’t been released, it seems like it will either only contain the title track, or the title track plus an instrumental version.

Source: Brand-x

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Serial Number releases
Posted on September 10, 2008 in New release, Random Fact

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This was sent in to us by Steve, thanks! Remember when Adrienne posted about Serial Number’s new single 「夢人の空」 (Yumenchu no Sora)? Well it seems the single is being released simultaneously with their DVD titled 「クリップ集2～COLOR STYLE/愛らシーサー/ふたりのパラダイス～」 (Clip Shuu 2~COLOR STYLE/Aira See-Saw/Futari no Paradise~) on October 15th.

The tracklisting for the single is:
1. 夢人の空 (Yumenchu no Sora)
2. シリアルHappy Birthdayナンバー (Serial Happy Birthday Number)

DVD tracklisting:
1. COLOR STYLE (PV)
2. 愛らシーサー (Aira See-Saw; PV)
3. ふたりのパラダイス (Futari no Paradise; PV)
特典：「ラヴピース」未公開㊙映像 (Privilege: “Love Piece” footage)

The cost for the single is ￥1,200, and the DVD for ￥1,500.

Source: OHP

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Serial Number’s cool project
Posted on August 11, 2008 in Cool, New release, News

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シリアル⇔NUMBER  (Serial Number) is doing a pretty spiffy thing with the release of their new single 「夢人の空」 (Yumenchu no Sora) that’s set to come out on October 15th!

The band is teaming up with 「ミュ～コミ」 (Myu~Com) which is on All Night Nippon and airs every Monday starting at midnight for an hour for a special project that ties into the release of the new single. The special project is 「夢人の空　写真大募集」 (Yumenchu no Sora Mass Recruitment of Photographs).

To understand the project, you must first know that vocalist Jin wrote the lyrics about the huge dream of becoming a musician and traveling from Okinawa to Tokyo. So what they want, is photos of their fans working hard towards taking the steps to reach their big dream! They’ll take the collection of photos and make a special CD booklet and videoclip disc for it.

The entry can be a photo or a video clip and it the dream doesn’t have to be related to a band. They began taking applications in July and will continue to do so until August 20th.

Source: SC24, OHP

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Random Fact of the Day
Posted on August 10, 2008 in Random Fact

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Today’s random fact comes from the band Serial Number. Well, you know how Serial Number released an album called “Serial Number”? When asked the reason behind that they had a pretty interesting answer. Jin said that this time around, there was no special concept for the album, and it was all individual songs. So when they were discussing it, they thought, well, we’re Serial Number, so isn’t Serial Number a good title for it?

Does everyone want to know the origin of my name? It is of Old English origin, and its meaning is “serious; determined; sincere”. Variant of Ernst (German). So next time you are meeting some sort of challenge raise your fist high and scream ERNIE.

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SPEED DISK PRESENTS
Posted on August 8, 2008 in Event

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The label, SPEED DISK has announced that they’ll be sponsoring an event this November called SPEED DISK PRESENTS～「森羅万象 TOUR’08」 (Shinrabanshou) and it will cover four places around Japan.

The event tour starts on November 12th at Nagoya’s Electric Lady Land, followed by a performance at Kyoto MUSE the following day, ESAKA MUSE on the 14th and ending at Hakata Be-1 on November 16th.

The bands performing at the event all four days are D=OUT,  【_Vani;lla】, DaizyStripper and SCREW. R指定 (R-15) Moran, Serial Number and xTRiPx will also be performing but at the Hakata showing only.

The shows all open at 5:00, start half an hour later and cost 3800 yen (or 4300 yen the day of).

Source: SPEED DISK Mailmag

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Serial Number’s newest album
Posted on May 20, 2008 in New release

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シリアル⇔NUMBER (Serial Number) has announced that on Jule 9th they’ll be releasing a new full album called…. 「シリアル⇔NUMBER」 (Serial Number) which will cost 3200 yen.

No information about the track list or number of tracks available quite yet, but just as their other works this album too will be produced by Takui.

Source: Brand-x

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Serial Number’s tour in August!
Posted on April 9, 2008 in Tour

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シリアル⇔NUMBER  (Serial Number) has posted information about their summer tour which will be called “ミュージックちゃんぷる～2008サマー「愛らシーサー」” (Music Chanpuru～2008-sama 「Aira See-saw」). “Aira See-saw” is the name of the new CD they’re putting out on April 14th, which is available for purchase over here at CDJapan.

Anyways! Onto the details of their tour:
August 21st @ Sendai MACANA (Open: 5:30 / Start: 6:00)
August 23rd @ Sapporo KRAPS HALL  (Open: 5:30 / Start: 6:00)
August 27th @ Okayama PEPPER LAND (Open: 6:00 / Start: 6:30)
August 28th @ Fukuoka DRUM SON (Open: 6:00 / Start: 6:30)
August 30th @ Nagoya Electric Lady Land (Open: 5:30 / Start: 6:00)
August 31st @ Osaka MUSE HALL (Open: 5:00 / Start 5:30)
September 7th @ Tokyo LIQUID ROOM (Open: 5:00 / Start: 6:00)

The tickets go on sale starting on May 24th and cost 3000 yen.
The lives in Sendai and Sapporo are lives with other bands, but the rest seem to be all oneman lives.

Source: Official MailMag

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Two new releases
Posted on April 5, 2008 in New release

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Two new releases for you today!
First up, is Sister Floyd with the release of their first mini-album, “Full Sluge”.
The tracklist is:
1. 狂ったその日から〜self destruction (Kuratta Sono Hi kara)
2. Justice
3. Julia
4. 狂奏曲 (Kyou Soukyoku)
5. Cry of heart
6. ツキを撃ち落とせ (Tsuki wo Uchiotose)

The CD is set to come out on May 14th and will cost 2100 yen. If you’re not familiar with this band and are interested in what they sound like, make

sure you check out their Official MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/sisterfloyd.

And second, a new special magazine “Gl!tter 001″ that’s being put out by V！NYL　SYNDICATE, which is a free paper that’s distributed to over 300 places around Japan. The cover artist for this issue is 12012 and it includes a 15 page special on them as a report that give total coverage of their live on May 15th at Akasaka BLITZ. Girugamesh, DOLLY and Zoro all have a ten page feature in the magazine, and there will be interviews with Serial Number, Moran and more!

The size is A4 and it’s 64 coloured pages. A DVD is also included! The special privilege is a DVD which contains footage of the making of the magazine (probably photoshoot footage like the Expect Rush ones) and comments from the bands.

It comes out on June 20th and only costs 1890 yen!

Source: Brand-x

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