[GAIJIN UPDATE] SAVAGE Announces New Single "RUSALII"

On August 29th SAVAGE gave their first live after coming back from hiatus that lasted 8 months. Now they've revealed that they will release a brand new single in October!
The title of that new single is "RUSALII" and it will drop on October 16th. If you're in Japan at the beginning of October you'll get the chance to buy it in advance at their live on October 4th.
The single costs 1260 Yen and includes the following three songs: "RUSALII", "zankokue" and "R.I.P".
And they've also announced their first one man live! It will be held at Ikebukuro BlackHole on December 13th.

members' blogs, MH
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[GAIJIN UPDATE] Memento-Mori's Drummer Departs

Memento-mori's drummer yue has left the band on September 3rd.
The band just finished their tour that lasted more than 3 months and there's only their tour final at Shibuya O-West on September 15th left but yue won't be able to perform there. He was already absent at their live at Mito LIGHT HOUSE on August 29th due to intervertebral disk hernia. Now he decided to leave the band after being part of it for 2 years.

OHP, MH
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[GAIJIN UPDATE] Perfume releases short PV for '1mm'

Perfume has released the short PV for their new song "1mm".

SEE ALSO: Check out the teaser for Perfume's new album 'LEVEL3'

"1mm" is one of the tracks off of Perfume's upcoming album "LEVEL3" which is slated for release on October 2nd. The PV will be included in the limited edition DVD.

You can take a look at the clip above.

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[`GAIJIN UPDATE] ONE OK ROCK to hold an acoustic tour in October

 
ONE OK ROCK will be holding an acoustic tour titled 'Tohoku Live House Daisakusen ACOUSTIC TOUR' in October.

This tour will be established by the Tohoku Earthquake disaster-stricken area restoration project, 'Tohoku Live House Daisakusen'. The band will hold 3 concerts in the Tohoku region; October 4 and 5th in Iwate, and the 7th in Miyagi.

SEE ALSO: ONE OK ROCK finalize their European & Asian tour

After the acoustic tour, ONE OK ROCK will embark on their overseas tour. They will travel to various countries in Europe and Asia.

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<Tohoku Live House Daisakusen ACOUSTIC TOUR>
Friday, October 4th - KLUB COUNTER ACTION MIYAKO (Iwate)
Saturday, October 5th - LIVEHOUSE FREAKS (Iwate)
Monday, October 7th - BLUE RESISTANCE (Miyagi)

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[GAIJIN UPDATE] MUCC Talk About the Role of the New Band Members

On August 17th MUCC welcomed two new members. DEAN and Hancho were two of 767 applicants who wanted to join the Japanese band and take part in photoshoots, recordings, interviews and many more! They've made it! Their first interview with barks.jp revealed some details on the new members’ characteristics and intentions. But what was actually the idea behind letting two new members join the band?
MUCC revealed that they’ve reached a limit as four-member band. There are way more things you can do as six-member band, so they decided that it’s time for a next step. It seems like the influences of traditional Japanese music will be more important for the band's future releases. Hancho will play Shakuhachi, a traditional end-blown flute made of bamboo, and DEAN will play Shamisen, a Japanese three-stringed instrument.
They seem to get along very well with the original members and already had their first appearance on TV. And earlier this week DEAN and Hancho had their first day of recording. They didn’t take part in the recording for MUCC’s upcoming single “HALO” but will play their instruments for new releases. Unfortunately it's still unclear if this is a time-limited project or if the new members will be permanent members.
Are you looking forward to hear more from them? And did you already follow them on twitter? DEAN is Japanese, so his tweets are in his mother-language, but if you don’t know any Japanese check out Hancho’s twitter! She’s a girl from Hungary who tweets not only in Japanese but also in English and Hungarian.
Let’s wish the new members the best for those new challenges!

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[GAIJIN UPDATE] SCREW to Release New Single in November

Visual Kei band SCREW announced the release of a brand new single that will drop in two months, on November 6th.
The single is titled "CAVALCADE" and comes in three types: Limited Edition Type A and B cost 1890 Yen each and both types come with a DVD. The Regular Edition costs 1575 Yen and is CD-only. As soon as more details are available we'll let you know!
For those of you who will be in Japan this month there's another release to look forward to! SCREW will release their free live-limited Live DVD at their one man at LIQUIDROOM ebisu on September 23rd. The DVD includes scenes of their fan-club live on September 22nd.

OHP, MH
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[GAIJIN UPDATE] Ikimonogakari's Yamashita Hotaka breaks his toe

On September 1st, it was reported that Ikimonogakari's guitarist Yamashita Hotaka (31) has broken his toe. This was revealed by leader Mizuno Yoshiki (30) via Twitter.

Mizuno wrote, "Yamashita-kun's toe is broken. He can stand, he can walk, he can participate in lives." Regarding the reason for the broken toe, he revealed, "It seems he was stepped on by a women in heels at Shibuya's scramble crossing. Do your best Yamashita-kun."

SEE ALSO: Ikimonogakari's Mizuno Yoshiki announces his marriage

Ikimonogakari kicked off their nationwide tour in Fukui on the same day.

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