Childish Tones feat. Beni Usakura "Yesterday Once More" (7" Flexi + Download code)
A new release is coming from Childish Tones (Instagram, Twitter) feat. Beni Usakura (Instagram, Twitter)! This one is a cover of The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" using the Japanese lyrics written by Shintarō Sakamoto as he once sang in...
Posted on June 17, 2023 at 22:46. | Released on July 14, 2023
Various Artists "Excerpts From Nu Psychic Teen Sounds!" (Download)
The original songs from the recent LP compilation "Nu Psychic Teen Sounds!" are now available digitally. In addition to the album versions of songs by Rinda & Marya, CAR10, Childish Tones feat. Beni Usakura, Learners, Bluevalley, Petersfield, Flashlights and Kettles,...
Posted on December 29, 2022 at 23:23. | Released on December 21, 2022
Posted on December 16, 2022 at 20:52. | Event held on Tuesday December 20, 2022 at 19:15 (JST)
Cassette Store Day 2022
Cassette Store Day is happening this year again, on Saturday October 15, and many albums are being released in the nostalgic format. Below are a few picks, a bit coincidentally all from the KiliKiliVilla label (which puts a lot of...
Posted on October 14, 2022 at 22:38. | Released on October 15, 2022
Childish Tones feat. Beni Usakura "Top Secret Man / Yeah Yeah Yeah" (7")
Tokyo toy-instrument-only rock'n'roll band Childish Tones (Instagram, Twitter) feat. Beni Usakura (Instagram, Twitter) has a new 7" single coming this month. Both songs are covers: Plastics' "Top Secret Man" and The Vibrators' "Yeah Yeah Yeah" (this one sung in...
Posted on October 8, 2022 at 00:03. | Released on October 20, 2022
Posted on August 11, 2022 at 12:19. | Event held on Saturday September 10, 2022 at 18:00 (JST)
Childish Tones feat. Beni Usakura x Bluevalley "Summer Together EP" (7"+Download code)
Here comes a split-single of Tokyo toy-instrument-only rock'n'roll band Childish Tones (Instagram, Twitter) feat. Beni Usakura (Instagram, Twitter) and Nagoya-based lo-fi indie-pop band Bluevalley. Both of the songs are brand new originals. The lyrics of "Daikirai Collection" were written...
Posted on July 3, 2022 at 21:10. | Released on August 31, 2022
Various Artists "Nu Psychic Teen Sounds!" (12"+Download code)
The label BOOTREC was started in 2016 as a sub-label of KiliKiliVilla and led by Nemoto De Chôbeaullet (Childish Tones) and Hitoshi "Kink" Suzuki (designer & DJ), and here comes a first label compilation under the new slogan "Nu Psychic...
Posted on July 3, 2022 at 20:46. | Released on July 29, 2022
Posted on March 28, 2021 at 15:24. | Event held on Saturday April 3, 2021 at 18:15 (JST)
Childish Tones "Country Girl" (7")
Childish Tones (Twitter), band which plays rock'n'roll using only toy instruments, has a new single being released on 7"! This follows the album "God Bless The Girls" which featured singer Beni Usakura. This time the songs are sung by...
Posted on February 11, 2021 at 21:15. | Released on February 26, 2021
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
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
Childish Tones feat. Beni Usakura "Ask" (7")
Childish Tones (Twitter) featuring singer Beni Usakura (Twitter, Instagram) has just released a new 7" single. Included are covers of The Smiths' "Ask", and New York Dolls' Sylvain Sylvain's solo song "Teenage News". A download code is included. The...
Posted on August 29, 2020 at 00:54. | Released on August 28, 2020
Les Childish Tones avec Beni Usakura "Ex Fan Des Sixties" (7")
Childish Tones (Twitter), band that using only toy instruments, has a new single featuring singer Beni Usakura (Twitter, Instagram) about to be released! This time they cover Jane Birkin's "Ex Fan Des Sixties" (1978) and The Spiders' "Nati Bati...
Posted on March 16, 2020 at 00:52. | Released on March 25, 2020
Various Artists "Silent Running"
This is a compilation from label Hello From The Gutter founded in 2001, to celebrate a total of 50 releases. Featured are recent songs by various bands including Learners, Childish Tones feat. Usakura Beni (Avandoned) (with a cover of Jane...
Posted on January 30, 2020 at 23:18. | Released on January 15, 2020
Childish Tones feat. Beni Usakura "Make Her Mine" (7")
Childish Tones (Twitter), band that plays rock'n'roll with just toy instruments, has a new 7" in collaboration with Beni Usakura (of Avandoned). The previous ("Cruel To Be Kind / There She Goes") quickly sold out. This time are covers...
Posted on September 19, 2019 at 20:30. | Released on September 25, 2019
Childish Tones feat. Usakura Beni "Cruel To Be Kind / There She Goes" (7")
Childish Tones (Twitter) is a band that plays rock'n'roll using nothing but toy instruments! This new 7" single is a collaboration with Beni Usakura (of Avandoned). Included are covers of Nick Lowe's "Cruel To Be Kind" and The La's' "There...
Posted on February 10, 2019 at 10:58. | Released on February 20, 2019
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Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.54
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 18, 2024 at 14:19.
DJ event announcement: "POLY-810" Nov. 10, 2024
DJ 810 of Tokyo's Coolest Sound is organizing the event below with longtime friend polymoog (ELEKTEL/CTO LAB.). Come by for a late-afternoon/early-evening of good music (with lounge, electro, pop, Shibuya-kei, and beyond). Check out the details below in Japanese &...
Posted on October 12, 2024 at 22:50.
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.50
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 June 21, 2024 at 12:48.
usabeni "AIR"
Self-produced idol usabeni (a.k.a. Beni Usakura) has just released a new EP. Titled "AIR", it contains 3 new songs plus a remix. Like the previous mini-album "textures!", it features the sounds of Hyoe Yasuhara and Feww. The remix is...
Posted on May 27, 2024 at 23:45. | Released on May 27, 2024
kimriri "frame" (Download)
D.I.Y.-style singer-songwriter kimriri (Instagram, Twitter) has just released a new song, titled "frame". Check it out on your favorite download/streaming platform. This follows the song "episode". kimriri will be guest DJ on May 12 at event "Blue Boys Club",...
Posted on May 9, 2024 at 13:28. | Released on May 8, 2024
Hideki Kaji "Being Pure At Heart"
Hideki Kaji has just released a brand new album, titled "Being Pure At Heart". It had been about 5 years since the previous original full-length "Goth Romance". The new album contains some songs released digitally over the last few years,...
Posted on April 27, 2024 at 23:58. | Released on April 24, 2024
Hideki Kaji "Being Pure At Heart" (Download)
Hideki Kaji released this month a brand new song digitally, a short & sweet summer track titled "Being Pure At Heart". This new song follows EP "We Are The Borders E.P." released last December. "Being Pure At Heart" again...
Posted on March 31, 2024 at 19:36. | Released on March 13, 2024
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.45
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 January 19, 2024 at 22:29.
Jenny Jenny "Jenny Jenny" (7")
Jenny Jenny (Instagram, 𝕏) is a 4-piece girl band formed in 2022, a new sensation of Tokyo's garage rock scene. Having been playing many shows in and out of town, here finally comes their first release as a 7"...
Posted on November 30, 2023 at 00:31. | Released on November 29, 2023
usabeni "trip" (Download)
Self-produced idol Beni Usakura pursues her solo project with a new twist, as she has now started officially using the name usabeni (until then her nickname). Her first release as usabeni is a brand new song titled "trip", with...
Posted on September 20, 2023 at 14:02. | Released on September 16, 2023
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.41
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 July 21, 2023 at 20:33.
Rinda & Marya "Everybody's Happy Nowadays / Candy Superman" (7")
First released part of LP compilation "Nu Psychic Teen Sounds!" last year, here comes a 7" cut of the two songs by Rinda & Marya (Instagram, Twitter). "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" is a cover of Buzzcocks, while "Candy Superman" is...
Posted on May 23, 2023 at 23:55. | Released on May 26, 2023
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.39
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 May 19, 2023 at 14:29.
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.38
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 April 21, 2023 at 12:33.
Record Store Day 2023
Record Store Day will be held worldwide on Saturday April 22! Below is a list of recommended releases coming from Japan. The full list of Record Store Day Japan can be found here. As always, there are no online pre-orders,...
Posted on April 15, 2023 at 23:40. | Released on April 22, 2023
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.34
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 December 16, 2022 at 21:03.
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.33
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 18, 2022 at 22:33.
Bluevalley "Bluevalley"
BLUEVALLEY is a bassless lo-fi pop group based in Nagoya, led by singer-songwriter Kikumi Minatani. Here finally comes their first full-length original album! This follows the release of three independently-made 7" singles (some available at Jet Set), and more recently...
Posted on September 21, 2022 at 23:33. | Released on September 21, 2022
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.31
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 September 9, 2022 at 13:25.
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.30
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 August 12, 2022 at 09:00.
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.27
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 May 13, 2022 at 12:49.
The Bassons "Through The Woods" (Download)
The Bassons ("bass" pronounced as in "bass guitar") is a funky band with a sound based around bass and drums, formed of rapper Darthreider (a.k.a. Rei Wordup), bassist Katsuhara Daisaku, drummer Ōta Kōji, Tomohiko Gondō on flugelhorn, with the whole...
Posted on April 29, 2022 at 23:29. | Released on April 23, 2022
Beni Usakura "Passion"
Beni Usakura (Twitter, Instagram), who is active in idol group Apokalippps (also ex-Frun Frin Friends and avandoned) and the featured vocalist of Childish Tones (Twittter, Instagram), has just released a first solo single! Both of these songs have music...
Posted on April 17, 2022 at 10:05. | Released on April 17, 2022
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.26
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 April 14, 2022 at 23:51.
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.22
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 December 9, 2021 at 23:13.
Kettles "Timeless Melody / Devils Haircut" (7")
KETTLES (Facebook, Bandcamp, Twitter) is a rock'n'roll duo of guitar and drums formed in 2008, who both also sing. Here comes a 7" single of two covers of which they had posted performances on YouTube in 2014 and 2015,...
Posted on October 21, 2021 at 21:13. | Released on October 22, 2021
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.20
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 September 23, 2021 at 00:37.
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.18
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 July 29, 2021 at 00:00.
RSD Drops 2021 Day 2
Here comes the 2nd of Record Store Day's "RSD Drops" for 2021, following the first held on June 12. Online sales will start at 13:00 (JST) on release day. Below are some picks for July 17, followed by some related...
Posted on July 17, 2021 at 02:04. | Released on July 17, 2021
Frun Frin Friends "Frun Frin Friends" (Download)
Frun Frin Friends is the idol unit of Beni Usakura (Twitter) (also of APOKALIPPPS and featured in Childish Tones) and Aku Nayuta (Twitter). Following several singles, here comes their first full-length album out now on download/streaming platforms! The music is...
Posted on July 7, 2021 at 21:12. | Released on July 7, 2021
Nishioka Diddley "Bedroom to Outer Space" (Download)
Nishioka Diddley (Bandcamp, SoundCloud), known as the guitarist of Childish Tones and Nih Khmers among others, has just released a new solo album! His music mixes chiptune and guitar sounds, using several types of Nanoloop as well as 6- and...
Posted on July 1, 2021 at 13:31. | Released on July 1, 2021
Tentenko "An Antworten EP" (12")
Tentenko, who has been active as a proficient electronic artist for several years already, has a new EP about to be released on German label TAL! The EP contains two new tracks, "Ki-Iro" and "Mizu-Iro", as well as remixes by...
Posted on March 2, 2021 at 23:55. | Released on March 5, 2021
Posted on February 28, 2021 at 00:11. | Event held on Monday March 1, 2021 at 21:00 (JST)
Ryuji Sawa "FG&Me" (Download)
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Sawa Ryūji has just released a mini-album of solo acoustic demos. This mini-album, of which the title refers to his Yamaha FG280 acoustic guitar, had been available at shows on CD-R since early last year and later...
Posted on February 8, 2021 at 18:15. | Released on May 29, 2020
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.13
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 January 28, 2021 at 01:13.
Magic, Drums & Love "Amazon Night / Eyes, Hands, Height & Hair" (7"/Download)
Tokyo rock'n'roll band Magic, Drums & Love has a new double-A-side 7" single being released! Like their latest album, "Hurricane Upsetter", it's produced by Matsuda "Chabe" Gakuji (Learners, Neil and Iraiza, Cubismo Grafico). The single is said to include...
Posted on July 21, 2020 at 23:19. | Released on July 22, 2020
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.4
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 April 23, 2020 at 00:50.
The Pen Friend Club "Along Comes Mary / Love Can Go The Distance"
The Pen Friend Club, a band of eight that takes inspiration from 60's west coast rock, has a brand new single to be released this week! This is actually their last release featuring Fujimoto Yuka who had been the...
Posted on March 8, 2020 at 12:14. | Released on March 11, 2020
