The Gospellers and Howie D. collab
I know it has been a slow week. Well, what can I say, sugoi news are hard to get these days. This one amused me though: The popular Japanese acappella group Gospellers has collaborated with Backstreet Boys’ Howie Dorough for a single to be released this October. The song, as made chismis by Sankei Sports, is titled as “It Still Matters – Ai wa Nemuranai.” I like the Gospellers. I was never really a fan of...
Just to brighten up your day
It’s not really a habit of mine (and the rest of Team Sugoi) to post videos in succession, but I just wanted to post this. I woke up this morning feeling a little gloomy. Now this song always, always picks my mood up. It’s such a genki, genki song! I’m talking about Sweet Soul Revue by the sugoi Pizzicato Five.
The 5-month L’arc thing
It’s not enough that L’Arc~en~Ciel has just kicked off their 2007 tour, these guys who made me listen to J rock has also announced that starting August, they will be releasing one sugoi stuff every month for 5 months!!! According to Sports Hochi, this will start with the band’s new single, “My Heart Draws a Dream” on August 29 which will be followed by the DVD of their 2006 Tokyo Dome performance. Photo...
It ain’t just a band scene anymore
I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that one of the performers at the J Crunch Ripiito last Saturday was in fact a solo J Pop act. The young and pretty Setsuna. Photo by Ninjulius Setsuna, a sweet but spunky senior high school kid had always known that she was a performer. “I’ve been singing since I was a kid,” Setsuna, shyly told me. “But I really got into the J scene only two years ago when I...
X-Japan: Reunited?
Toshi, ex-vocalist of famed, legendary (insert fangirly adjective here) band X-Japan wrote an entry in his blog last March 21, about meeting with an “old friend in Los Angeles”, which led to a “new project [that] is about to start soon.” In the JRock fandom, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who he was referring to: Yoshiki Hayashi. X-Japan’s founder, leader, drummer and pianist. (read: rock icon.) X-Japan’s...