Yellow Monsters had their EP We Eat Your Dog released in Japan on July 4th as scheduled. The two bonus tracks promised for the release turned out to be “Riot!” and “April 16th (4월 16일)” from the band’s second full-length album. Ahead of the release came a music video for Caution:, full of clips from… Continue reading
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Trampauline Release Second Album in Japan with Bonus Tracks
Trampauline‘s second full-length album This Is Why We Are Falling For Each Other got a Japanese release today, June 20th. Not only equipped with a new cover, the Japanese edition also comes with three bonus tracks. One of the bonus tracks is a song called “1995” and the other two are remixes familiar from the… Continue reading
Japanese Release from Yellow Monster in July
Yellow Monsters released mini album We Eat Your Dog in April. Next month the rock trio will make their official Japanese debut as We Eat Your Dog gets a release through 773Four Records on July 4th and with the Japanese market in mind some of the songs are completely in English. Two bonus tracks have… Continue reading
Octave Soul Release More K-Indie and K-Pop Punk Covers
Shibuya-based label Octave Soul has been working hard to bring out more Korean indie music releases in Japan. Most are re-releases, but every now and then there is also the special release for the Japanese market. On May 16th comes the next special project, K-Pop Punk Covers, with Tokyo’s Maximum Outputs Level having taken on… Continue reading
Guyz Release Music Video for Japanese Version of Morning
In November rock band Guyz released their first Japanese mini album, Play-in-Play, to be sold during shows in Japan. It comprised six songs in Japanese, with titles familiar their first and from their two Korean full-length albums alongside a couple of titles from single New Stage. In the beginning of the week a music video… Continue reading
My Bloody Valentine Loveless Tribute Album
Electric Muse is currently producing an album called Loveless Tribute which will be released only in Japan by label Ultra-Vibe on March 7th and on iTunes. It is a compilation featuring eleven different artists each covering one of the eleven songs on legendary shoegazer band My Bloody Valentine‘s twenty year old album Loveless. Already today… Continue reading
More Octave Soul Releases in Japan on the Way
A month ago we had a look at some Korean indie albums re-released in Japan by Octave Soul. Another look at Amazon.co.jp today shows that more albums have been scheduled for release this spring. Added to the list of albums coming out already on February 8th is YaYa‘s first full-length album, 曲芸 (곡예), released in… Continue reading
Japan Release of Deli Spice’s Open Your Eyes
Since the release of seventh full-length album Open Your Eyes the popularity of Deli Spice has been growing in Japan. There have been demands for an album from the band to be released in the country, leading to a Japan Special Package version of Open Your Eyes coming out on February 8th. Making this special… Continue reading
Octave Soul continues to bring k-indie to Japan
In August 2011 Shibuya-based label Octave Soul released it’s first batch of Korean indie CDs in Japan, starting with Sunkyeol and Vidulgi OoyoO. More releases followed and on January 18th it’s time for the first batch of 2012, with plenty of Korea’s finest music. Most albums have been licensed just the way they were originally… Continue reading