New Horizon Special Campaign Website Goes Live
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With the release of Tak Matsumoto’s new album 「New Horizon」just around the corner, the special campaign website just went live with detailed instructions on how to take part in the lottery for one out of 300 「New Horizon」 limited edition vinyl LPs. Each copy of 「New Horizon」ships with a card that contains a 16 digit code which you’ll have to input on the special campaign’s site along with your contact details. You will most likely need a Japanese address if you would like to participate in the lottery, which you can get through www.tenso.com.
The special campaign ends on June 15th, 2014 11:59PM Japan time. Here’s the link to the special campaign website: https://houseofstrings.jp/sp/
B’z Donates Proceeds of Selling Charity Bracelets
News The band has today announced that 15,900,000 Yen have been collected by selling charity bracelets during last year’s 25th anniversary tour B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2013 -ENDLESS SUMMER-. The proceeds will be donated to SAVE THE CHILDREN JAPAN, an organization which helps children affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The band will continue to support children in need who have been affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Koshi Inaba Official Website “en-zine” Goes Live 2/26
News Looks like this year it is time for some solo projects! Koshi Inaba will finally get his own official website, which will go live on February 26th at midnight. (Japan Time) The site will be gradually updated to feature new information on Koshi Inaba’s works. The first update will give us a glimpse of Koshi’s new album which is currently in production. One of his new songs from the upcoming new album will be made available online.
B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2013 ENDLESS SUMMER -XXV BEST- Release Message
News Tomorrow, B’z will officially release their homevideo package of their 25th anniversary tour B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2013 ENDLESS SUMMER. Just like with every other release, the band has released a message for their fans commemorating the release.
That summer is still ongoing!!
Please get excited again while watching the video!
Koshi Inaba
B’z 25th year is completely collected in this release.
A must-see! A real “Pleasure”!
Tak
BEING Doubles Sales Thanks To B’z
News Today, Oricon has announced the sales for the year 2013 per music label. AVEX Group Holdings is now holding first place for two years in a row. Followed by Sony Music Entertainment on 2nd place and Universal Music on 3rd place. What’s interesting is that the BEING Group, to which Vermillion Records belongs, has more than doubled their sales due to releasing B’z live DVDs and Blu-rays as well as the XXV best-of releases, putting them in 10th place compared to last year’s 17th place.
B’z began their careers with BMG Japan and operated under several of their labels. Later, B’z would leave BMG to form their own label, Vermillion Records, as part of Being GIZA. Publication rights to the band’s original four releases (the self-titled debut album, OFF THE LOCK, BAD COMMUNICATION, and BREAK THROUGH) remained under BMG control with the label switch, leading to recordings from that era ineligible to be included on compilations until an agreement was finally reached in time for the band’s 25th anniversary single collections, B’z The Best XXV 1988-1998 and B’z The Best XXV 1999-2012.
Source: Oricon
Carmine Appice Mentions B’z in Interview
News American rock drummer Carmine Appice was recently interviewed by the Examiner and when asked a question about Japan, he mentioned one very particular band…
Ray Shasho: There are so many legendary rock bands from the 70’s that are having more success overseas these days … especially in Japan.
Carmine Appice: “Japan has their own domestic artists that are huge. It used to be that Japan didn’t have any domestic artists until the mid 90’s. All of a sudden they started getting their own artists. So all the American and UK artists who used to go there and play the Budokan are now playing smaller venues. But their artists are playing stadiums. There’s a group over there called B’z and they can play three stadium nights in every major city in Japan. We’re talking 150,000 people. It’s a singer and a guitar player. I went to see them in Japan as a guest, they’re friends of mine, and I think it was the night before or night after I saw Kiss over there. Kiss was playing at the stadium too. The B’z production was bigger than the Kiss production. It was ridiculous…it was so big. Over there they don’t travel around in big semis, they travel around in these sixteen to twenty foot trucks … so they must have had about a hundred trucks going from city to city … it was crazy. But there just huge over there.”
