Hoshina Anniversary, a solo electronic act from Tokyo, has made his new remix for “Can I Spend a Happy Night?” available for free download. You can also listen to it on his myspace player. His remix for “Alala” is also available for download.
1. Can I Spend a Happy Night? (original by The Propaganda Musicians)
2. Alala (original by CSS)
You can stream all 11 tracks off of Capsule’s remix album RMX off of their myspace for one week only.
You can pre-order Polysics new album Polysics or Die!!!! Vista over at interpunk for $11.50. The album comes out in stores via Myspace Records next Tuesday October 9th. Personally, I’m going to wait until Sunday in case it pops up in any sales papers (Best Buy, Target, etc.).
FC Five has two new tracks on their myspace page, “Dawn Break” and “A Thousand Shams.” Both are from their new album, Super Bloom, available in Japan October 1oth.
JapanFiles added the new Electric Eel Shock album Transworld Ultra Rock for MP3 download on their website. Previews are available for all 12 tracks. You can also download the album on amazon.com for $8.99.
Jrock Revolution will be releasing the soundtrack for Catacombs in the US through EXTASY Records. Yoshiki from X Japan is the executive-producer for the OST, “an album unprecedented in music history for its collaboration of Japanese and American rock bands on a multinational release.” The first 500 orders for the soundtrack through the JRR website will include a bonus dvd of the music video for Violet UK’s “Blue Butterfly.” For the soundtrack website with song previews/tracklist, the movie trailer, and ordering information click here. More information here, here, and here.
rightstuf has Swinging Popsicle– Go On and LiN Clover– Slumber for $8.99 each. The sale ends next Friday.
For those who still haven’t picked up the best anime in the world, rightstuf has the first 5 volumes of BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad for $14.98 each. The special edition of the first volume which includes a killer artbox in the shape of an amp and a bonus page of stickers is also on sale for $22.49. All volumes come with a free guitar pick! Volume 3 comes out next Tuesday, September 25th. For US residents, rightstuf offers free shipping on all orders of $49 or more (including pre-orders). The sale ends on 9/27/2007.
Last night I rediscovered a fun little pop-punk band name dustbox. They are musically very similar to Ellegarden (their singer even has the same Tom Delonge accent at times). Lyrics are in full English although slurred to the point where you can’t really understand them most of the time. Other comparisons- Northern 19, Pop Disaster, stack44. If you’re not familiar with Japanese punk bands they also kind of sound like a mixture of Lagwagon and Me First and Gimmie Gimmies. This year dustbox released their lateset album Seeds of Rainbow. The following video is for their first single, “Tomorrow.”
J-Rock Explosion 