Posted on December 5, 2020 at 00:49. | Event held on Saturday December 5, 2020 at 20:00 (JST)
Ryusenkei "Friday Night / Airport '80" (7")
City pop unit Ryusenkei (project of Cunimondo Takiguchi) has just released a 7" cut of two songs from 2003 album "City Music" (Spotify, ). This follows another 7" of two other songs that was released for Record Day 2020...
Posted on December 5, 2020 at 00:41. | Released on December 2, 2020
Posted on December 4, 2020 at 00:29. | Event held on Sunday December 6, 2020 at 19:15 (JST)
Zoomgals "GALS feat. Yayoi Daimon" (Download)
Six-girl rap group Zoomgals (formed of Namichie, Marukido, ASOBOiSM, AKKOGORILLA, valknee and Haruko Tajima) have just released a new song digitally, this time featuring guest Yayoi Daimon. Check out the accompanying music video below! This track follows "Status Ailment...
Posted on December 3, 2020 at 23:41. | Released on December 2, 2020
Posted on December 2, 2020 at 22:02. | Event held on Friday December 4, 2020 at 20:00 (JST)
Urbangarde "Avantdemic"
Trauma techno-pop band Urbangarde has just released a new album, titled "Avantdemic". This is their 10th album, actually their 2nd this year following the release of "TOKYOPOP" on New Year's Day. It's full of brand new songs including an upgraded...
Posted on November 30, 2020 at 00:24. | Released on November 25, 2020
Posted on November 27, 2020 at 23:12. | Event held on Monday November 30, 2020 at 20:30 (JST)
Madame Croissant "Lyrical Dance / A.S.C." (7")
Madame Croissant, a unit featuring singers Michi and Satomi and produced by M. Lemon (aka Nozomu Satō aka plantar, also producer of Fujin Club), has just released a brand new 2nd single! The music features band Natsunomujina. The jacket...
Posted on November 27, 2020 at 20:58. | Released on November 25, 2020
Posted on November 27, 2020 at 00:07. | Event held on Friday November 27, 2020 at 19:00 (JST)
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.11
This is Tokyo's Coolest Sound's own radio show, which is featured on La Face B (Facebook page), an Internet radio based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). It brings you some favorite songs and artists that you've read about in these...
Posted on November 25, 2020 at 23:58.
Posted on November 24, 2020 at 21:03. | Event held on Wednesday November 25, 2020 at 19:00 (JST)
Emiri Kanou "Asaninare" (7")
Emiri Kanou's latest single "Asaninare" (Spotify, ) is being released on vinyl! The B-side is a new mix of "Because Of You", a non-album track that previously appeared on limited CD single "1988". The single's design was done by...
Posted on November 23, 2020 at 23:28. | Released on November 25, 2020
Various Artists "Magical Connection 2020"
This is a compilation of new generation Shibuya-kei, compiled and supervised by Sally Kubota (The Scooters, ex-SOLEIL, les 5-4-3-2-1, The Phantom Gift). Featured are a few brand new recordings, including new SOLEIL covers by microstar (songwriters of "Baby Boo"), Tweedees...
Posted on November 23, 2020 at 10:40. | Released on November 25, 2020
Posted on November 22, 2020 at 13:43. | Event held on Saturday November 28, 2020 at 19:30 (JST)
Negicco "gozen 0ji no Sympathy" (10"), Kaede "Stardust in Blue" (12")
Two Negicco vinyl releases are coming! The first is Negicco's latest EP "gozen 0ji no Sympathy" (, Spotify), of which the three songs will be released on 10", with new jacket artwork by manga artist Akase Yuriko. On the same...
Posted on November 19, 2020 at 21:26. | Released on November 24, 2020
Posted on November 12, 2020 at 21:35. | Event held on Thursday November 12, 2020 at 21:30 (JST)
Ryusenkei / hitomitoi "Talio"
Ryusenkei (project of Cunimondo Takiguchi) and hitomitoi have teamed up to produce the city pop-themed soundtrack of the currently ongoing NHK TV series "Talio". After releasing the song "kanashii kurai Diamond" digitally last month (Spotify, ), here comes the full...
Posted on November 10, 2020 at 00:23. | Released on November 11, 2020
Various Artists "City Music Tokyo invitation"
Cunimondo Takiguchi, the leader of city pop band Ryusenkei (and also known as the producer of albums by hitomitoi and Natsu Summer), has selected this compilation of songs that have influenced him. While some are famous songs, others are rare...
Posted on November 8, 2020 at 21:48. | Released on November 4, 2020
Salome no Kuchibiru "Sound of Salome Mizuno Satoshi hen", "Sound of Salome Tachibana Kyōko hen"
Kayō rock group Salome no Kuchibiru, who are about to disband after 18 years of history, are releasing two compilations of their favorite songs. Each contains 16 songs, selected respectively by leader Mizuno Satoshi and singer Tachibana Kyōko. Also be...
Posted on November 8, 2020 at 21:14. | Released on November 4, 2020
Posted on November 4, 2020 at 22:29. | Event held on Sunday November 8, 2020 at 18:00 (JST)
Aina Hirose "17"
This is the first solo album of Hirose Aina (official Twitter), following a mini-album titled "Schedule of Afternoon Hours" (2018, Spotify, , YouTube Music). In addition to songs produced by city pop artist Seki Yoshihiko, there are songs written by...
Posted on November 4, 2020 at 22:04. | Released on November 4, 2020
Posted on November 3, 2020 at 11:41. | Event held on Tuesday November 3, 2020 at 13:00 (JST)
Record Day 2020
Record Day 2020, ran by Japan's long-running record factory Tōyōkasei, is just about to happen this November 3rd. Being on the same day as Japan's "Culture Day", it's a day off well spent doing record shopping. Record Day items are...
Posted on November 3, 2020 at 01:59. | Released on November 3, 2020
Posted on November 2, 2020 at 20:56. | Event held on Wednesday November 4, 2020 at 19:00 (JST)
Interview: Izumi "Mimi" Kobayashi
Original interview text by Takashi Ikegami Translated from Japanese by Patrick Benny (Tokyo's Coolest Sound) Izumi "Mimi" Kobayashi (below "Mimi") is an interesting artist from actually many perspectives. First, there is the one where she expresses original works as the...
Posted on November 2, 2020 at 00:25.
Posted on October 30, 2020 at 00:27. | Event held on Friday November 6, 2020 at 20:00 (JST)
Childish Tones feat. Beni Usakura "God Bless the Girls" (CD/10")
Childish Tones (Twitter) has just released a full-length album, titled "God Bless the Girls", and it's the first featuring singer Beni Usakura (Twitter, Instagram)! Following the early-bird cassette edition released for Cassette Store Day, here it comes on CD and...
Posted on October 28, 2020 at 23:59. | Released on October 28, 2020
Posted on October 28, 2020 at 22:08. | Event held on Saturday October 31, 2020 at 21:00 (JST)
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.10
This is Tokyo's Coolest Sound's own radio show, which is featured on La Face B (Facebook page), an Internet radio based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). It brings you some favorite songs and artists that you've read about in these...
Posted on October 28, 2020 at 21:52.
Posted on October 28, 2020 at 21:39. | Event held on Sunday November 15, 2020 at 19:30 (JST)
World Standard "Shikisai Ongaku"
World Standard, the solo unit of Suzuki Sōichirō that debuted 35 years ago on Hosono Haruomi's label Non-Standard, is releasing a brand new 12th album! Not only had it been 10 years since his previous full-length — "Silencio" (2010, Amazon,...
Posted on October 26, 2020 at 21:40. | Released on November 28, 2020
Posted on October 23, 2020 at 22:50. | Event held on Saturday December 12, 2020 at 19:30 (JST)
RSD Drops Day 3: Elekibass, bjons, SAKA-SAMA, marble≠marble
This Saturday October 24 is Record Store Day's third and last "RSD Drops Day", which this year gave a chance buying the exclusive items online on the day of release in addition to physical shops. Online sales will start from...
Posted on October 23, 2020 at 13:31. | Released on October 24, 2020
Posted on October 21, 2020 at 21:22. | Event held on Friday October 30, 2020 at 19:30 (JST)
Crazy Ken Band "Now"
Crazy Ken Band has just released a brand new album titled "NOW"! I believe it's their 20th album! Included are a great bunch of brand new songs, as well as renewed versions of songs from the recent "Ivory ep". CDJapan...
Posted on October 21, 2020 at 00:19. | Released on October 21, 2020
Posted on October 20, 2020 at 22:54. | Event held on Wednesday October 21, 2020 at 19:30 (JST)
Tokyo Beethoven feat. Chiharu Muto "yureteta buranko" (Download)
Tokyo Beethoven (Twitter, Instagram), the project of Tanaka Tomoyuki (FPM) with art director Chihara Tetsuya (of design agency Lemonlife), has a new single out now digitally! This time the featured singer is Chiharu Mutō (ex-E-girls, ex-Flower, now navigator of...
Posted on October 18, 2020 at 13:10. | Released on October 17, 2020
Posted on October 18, 2020 at 00:38. | Event held on Wednesday October 21, 2020 at 20:00 (JST)
Cassette Store Day 2020: Childish Tones feat. Beni Usakura, Learners
Today is a rainy Cassette Store Day in Tokyo. Luckily the items are available online too, at a few of the participating shops at least! Here are just a few picks that Tokyo's Coolest Sound readers might not want to...
Posted on October 17, 2020 at 12:51. | Released on October 17, 2020
Posted on October 16, 2020 at 21:00. | Event held on Wednesday October 28, 2020 at 19:30 (JST)
Tetsuro Yafune "Optimist Winter / If You Want To Meet" (Download)
Pianist and singer-songwriter Tetsurō Yafune has just released two new songs digitally! It had been 5 years since his previous solo release, album "The Romantist" (2015, Amazon, HMV). Featured musicians are Suzuki Katsuto on bass, Kakizawa Ryūsuke on drums,...
Posted on October 15, 2020 at 22:12. | Released on October 15, 2020
Ryusenkei / hitomitoi "kanashii kurai Diamond" (Download)
Ryusenkei (project of Cunimondo Takiguchi) and hitomitoi made the music for new NHK drama series "Talio" that just started last week. The plot is about a fired lawyer and a crook who join forces to help people take their...
Posted on October 14, 2020 at 23:25. | Released on October 14, 2020
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