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by **Amped** » Thu Jul 01, 2021 6:03 pm

Tower Records and Recochoku launch a new music subscription called "TOWER RECORDS MUSIC" for 980 yen/month.

Tower Records and Recochoku will collaborate to offer a flat-rate music distribution service called "Tower Records Music powered by Recochoku" starting October 1st.
The service will offer 60 million songs for 980 yen per month, and boasts the largest J-POP lineup in Japan. A teaser site has been released.

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In addition to Japanese and J-POP music, the service offers unlimited access to 60 million songs from the latest hits to past masterpieces in a wide range of genres, including K-POP, anime, and Western music, as well as 100,000 music videos and live video.
The service can be enjoyed on multiple devices, including smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Offline playback is also supported.

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/00000 ... 02747.html

official teaser site
https://music.tower.jp/index.html

by **Shoujo Q** » Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:30 pm

I want it! Ugh. Gimme all that music!

I shouldn’t complain though, Apple Music is slowly offering more and more Japanese music. But there are still a few artists I love that aren’t available and full discographies are still hidden behind an invisible wall.

I got super excited to find Hayashibara Megumi’s music is now available in the US.

by **Moh** » Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:34 pm

I'm just waiting for the day H!P and H!P adjacent artists make it to Spotify. :lol:

I know Apple Music has them, but I don't see the point in subscribing to another music service just for that. :T

If things aren't completely horrible by then, I'll be seeing Rina Sawayama in concert next April!

I, uh, may have already bought the ticket. :fear:

I'm trying to not get too excited until I know for sure that it'll still be happening, lol.
It's in Portland, OR, which suits me just fine because my oldest friend lives there and we've been meaning to meet in person. :whistling:

by **Amped** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 2:02 pm

Amped wrote:
Amped wrote:This year, the organizers are attempting to go through with "ROCK IN JAPAN Festival 2021"

rockin'on presents ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL 2021 will be held at at Hitachi Seaside Park (Ibaraki) on August 7th (Sat), 8th (Sun), 9th (Mon), 14th (Sat) and 15th (Sun). 5 Days, 2 weekends this time.
For the first time in two years, ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL will be a special event that will be created together with everyone with thorough measures against corona. For this reason, the venue layout, capacity, and operation rules will be changed drastically.
Details of the festival, artists to be announced, and ticket sales will be announced soon. Please wait a little longer for the announcement.

June 1st, 2021
ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL organizer

http://rijfes.jp/

ROCK IN JAPAN 2021 announcement in a nutshell.

After many meetings with parks, prefectures, cities, and local officials, they have decided this year's ROCK IN JAPAN 2021 capacity will be less than half of what it has been in previous years (max capacity 69,000). It will be held on only one stage, the GRASS STAGE. Everything else is closed off.
This year there will be 40 artists and 8 groups per day, performing over 5 days.

They will be announcing the first artists on their J-Fes app soon
https://fesapp.jp

Their super long statement regarding how they got ROCK IN JAPAN approved with safety in mind.
http://rijfes.jp/2021/info/1746/

anddddd....cancelled. again.
http://rijfes.jp/2021/info/1928/

Website · by **Nayoko-Kihara** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 3:58 pm

Guess our girls not attending didn't matter in the end.

by **erilaz** » Fri Jul 09, 2021 5:40 pm

TsuShiMaMiRe have released a new single/video. The title is a pun on shōchū.

by **Moh** » Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:41 pm

This Foo Fighters cover of You Should Be Dancing is so bizarre to me:

I'm not not into it, though. :unsure:

by **Zunu** » Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:45 pm

Are you saying that the actual music is bizarre, that something about the video is bizarre, or that the fact that the Foo Fighters are doing a fairly straightforward cover of that song to begin with is bizarre?

I don't much care for the original song anyway, but to my ears their cover is equally as good (or bad). Sometimes a faithful cover can be interesting just for the skill involved or in the way that it makes you re-listen to the original more carefully. But in general though, I tend to prefer covers that have some kind of transformational aspect to them above and beyond basic kitsch/irony. Like for example in the case of the Bee Gees...

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