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Koshi Inaba News

Koshi Inaba has today announced that the tour finale of his current live tour 「Koshi Inaba LIVE 2016 ~en III~」 will be broadcast live on Hulu Japan. Furthermore, the show will be available as video-on-demand until June 6th after its live broadcast. The live broadcast will only be viewable on PC, while the on-demand video will be viewable on all devices that Hulu supports.

The live broadcast begins on March 6th, 5PM Japanese time.

Source: Hulu

Tak Matsumoto News

Tak Matsumoto will make an appearance on this year’s live broadcast of the Grammy Award ceremony on Japanese channel WOWOW. The broadcast will run from 9AM to 2PM on February 16th, Japanese time. Matsumoto is expected to appear on the program at around 9:30AM and will talk about his experience when he won his very own Grammy in 2011. Furthermore, he will talk about this year’s ceremony and its highlights.

Tak is currently in Los Angeles, recording new B’z tracks in their private L.A. studio. His new solo album is due for a Spring 2016 release.

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The band has announced that it will be performing at this year’s TV Asahi Dream Festival, which celebrates its 5th anniversary this year. Their previous, and first, performance at the festival dates back to 2011. This year’s rendition of the festival is held from November 21-23 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo. B’z will perform on the first day on November 21st. Tickets can be obtained through eplus from September 11 for 10,800 Yen per ticket.

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ROCKROCK, the famous rock bar in Osaka, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The bar has been visited by countless rock bands touring Japan, including B’z. They are celebrating the anniversary with a special show called 「ROCK BEYOND ROCK」 held at Zepp Namba in Osaka on July 7. Japanese heavy-metal band LOUDNESS was the first act to be announced to headline the show. Today, B’z has been added to the lineup! General sale starts June 20.

B’z as they visited ROCKROCK a couple of years ago

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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.

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The November 30th, 2013 special live that served as the grand opening for the TV Asahi-sponsored venue of the EX Theater Roppongi has come to an end, and B’z definitely did not pull any punches on this one. Living up to the title of “special live”, the band brought to the table songs no one expected to hear, including ones that had not seen the live stage in nearly twenty years!

B’z at the EX THEATER ROPPONGI

The show opened very unexpectedly with ACTION album song “Kuroi Seishun”, which had not been played in the five years since 2008’s album tour prior to the show. It was followed by a very rare performance of the 15th anniversary single “Yasei no ENERGY”, itself not having been played live in the ten years since 2003. “ONE ON ONE” and “Perfect Life”, two other ACTION album tracks, also saw performances, with the latter having been included during the hall dates for B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2013 -ENDLESS SUMMER-.

Other album songs performed included 1994’s “Yami no Ame” that had not been played since the first part of that year’s “The 9th Blues” tour and 1999’s “SKIN” and “Nagai Ai” from Brotherhood. Singles “ultra soul” and “Ichibu to Zenbu” were also carried over from the recent Pleasure tour, as well as classic 1989 fan-favorite “OH! GIRL” that had been previously performed during select hall tour dates along with 2002 album track “STAY GREEN ~Mijuku na Tabi wa Tomaranai~”. The singles of “Konya Tsuki no Mieru Oka ni” and “Shoudou” were also revived for the occasion, followed by encore returns of “BANZAI” and “IT’S SHOWTIME!!”.

“Q&A” from B’z The Best XXV 1999-2012 was likewise performed, along with the live debut of a brand new song of an unknown title that had earlier been heard as the ending music to the ENDLESS SUMMER tour. Afterward followed a memorial cover of Japanese metal band LOUDNESS’s 1985 song “Crazy Nights”. The performance taking place on November 30, 2013 came five years to the day of the band’s founding drummer Munetaka Higuchi passing away on November 30, 2008.

Check out the setlist after the break.

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