6th Station ~Other Bands for H!P Fans~

[DARC1993]

Britney Jean is being streamed on iTunes a week before it's release.

GET IN HERE ECHIDNA!
It's flawless
till it's gone is amazing. And the song with her sister is cute. Every song is good.
http://t.co/21XjbXaRvY

[Bossy Zunu]

^ I tend to be wary of URL shorteners. That appears to be harmless and resolves to:

smarturl.it/BritneyJeanStream?IQid=tw

which, at least in the USA, redirects to:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/brit ... s/id217005

but in general we should avoid using them here, since it's easy enough to just put a url of any length behind tags while maintaining a safe level of transparency.

[TotallyUncool]

Re: Drugstore vs. LoVendoЯ

I've actually been listening to a mix of both bands lately (studio and live tracks), and they go together very well -- the biggest difference, I think, is actually that LoVendoЯ's sound is retro-Jrock, while Drugstore is more retro-American power pop, which isn't really that big a difference.

[Echidna]

Britney Jean is being streamed on iTunes a week before it's release.

GET IN HERE ECHIDNA!
It's flawless
till it's gone is amazing. And the song with her sister is cute. Every song is good.
http://t.co/21XjbXaRvY

thank you for reminding I saw her tweet about this while I was at work, will listen later this evening

[Zunu]

Who knew that the words "enka" and "fanservice" could go together?

[Nayoko-Kihara]

[TotallyUncool]

^^My brain is now back in Enka Mode (just in time for the Kouhaku).

Although I've never liked the word "fanservice," and have considerable difficulty with the concept. It just sounds too much like something that a desperate, out-of-luck former idol do after hours in the alley behind a nightclub for pocket change.

[sada*]

Here's some Takoyaki Over the Rainbow.

[Starra]

Chiyuri .

[TotallyUncool]

This is what I get for not paying attention to a lot of the stuff that UF* is up to -- I missed this completely:

According to this press-release, Up-Front Works, as a co-sponsor of/partner in the Roxy Girls Auditions, actually does have at least some kind of involvement with Drugstore, since they were formed from the 2012 Roxy Girls winners:

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20131 ... -lisn-musi

How much of a tie-in that amounts to, I don't know -- maybe just co-sponsorship of the auditions, maybe more. But it does at least make it a bit more likely that Drugstore and Lovendor might appear on the same bill -- or that Drugstore might at some point be managed by UF* (if they ever figure out how to manage a rock group ).

But it is interesting, and now that I think about it, not all that surprising, considering Drugstore's overall sound and style.