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TMG II
''TMG II'' is the second studio album by the Japan-based supergroup Tak Matsumoto Group, released on September 18, 2024, by Vermillion Records. It was later released in Europe by Fronters Music on December 6, who also released the band's first album, ''TMG I'', in that region in 2004. Along with the core lineup of guitarist and leader Tak Matsumoto, vocalist Eric Martin, and bassist Jack Blades, drummer Matt Sorum (of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver fame) and frequent B'z collaborator Yukihide "YT" Takiyama appeared as studio and live support. The album was released in three editions: a regular version, a limited edition featuring a metal plate with the members' autographs and pictures, and a premium edition featuring a Blu-ray with a performance from their 2004 tour, Dodge the Bullet. The album debuted at No. 3 on both the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart and the ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums chart. Background Ever since the completion of the group's first run in 2004, ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tak Matsumoto Group
Tak Matsumoto Group (often abbreviated as TMG) is a supergroup consisting of members from several bands around the world. It includes Tak Matsumoto, Eric Martin, and Jack Blades. From July to September 2004, they embarked on their "Dodge the Bullet Tour" of Japan. After a single, an album, 20 shows, and a live video, the band did not perform again until twenty years later in 2024. In a 2016 interview with ''Rolling Stone India'', Martin said he asked Matsumoto every year about a possible reunion, to which Matsumoto always answered, "Let me think about it". On February 28, 2024, in an interview with Rockpages.gr, Jack Blades revealed that the band would be making a second album. A week later, on March 8, the band officially announced its reformation 20 years after its initial conception and would be releasing a second album and hold a nationwide tour across Japan. Lineup ;Official members * Tak Matsumoto (B'z) – guitar, leader * Eric Martin ( Mr. Big) – lead vocals * Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Japan Hot Albums
The ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums, also referred to as Combined Albums, is the primary album record chart published by ''Billboard Japan''. It is released weekly on Thursday in Japan Standard Time. The Hot Albums was launched on the week dated June 4, 2015, with Superfly's ''White'' (2015) as the inaugural number one. It initially ranked albums based on a combination of physical sales, digital downloads, and PC look-ups, and was the only combined albums chart in Japan until the establishment of the Oricon Combined Albums Chart in December 2018. Since December 2024, the chart has been based on physical sales, digital downloads, and streaming; the look-up factor was removed after ''Billboard Japan'' became unable to collect such data from the provider since October 2022. Physical sales units are provided by SoundScan Japan, whereas GfK Japan tracks digital downloads from Amazon, iTunes, Mora, Mu-mo, and RecoChoku, with additional iTunes data courtesy of Luminate, and streaming f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Gillis
Bradley Frank Gillis (born June 15, 1957) is an American guitarist most famous for playing with the band Night Ranger. He grew up in Alameda, California. He was in the band Rubicon during the 1970s before Night Ranger. Since forming in 1979, Gillis and drummer Kelly Keagy are the only members to have appeared in every incarnation of the band and all studio releases. However, Keagy missed several shows for the first time in 2017. On Saturday, 8 May 2021, Gillis was absent from a Night Ranger show for the first time in the band's history (he was recovering from rotator cuff surgery). He has also played for Ozzy Osbourne and Fiona, and has released solo albums. Gillis' musical side projects include placing over 300 songs for ESPN's Sports Center, The X Games, Fox Sports, Tiger Woods Sony PlayStation Games, EA Sports, The Fuse Channel and many others. He has appeared in over a dozen music videos, with TV performances on ''American Bandstand'', ''Solid Gold'', ''Rock & Roll Tonight'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
(You Can Still) Rock In America
In Modern English, the word "''you''" is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers. History ''You'' comes from the Proto-Germanic demonstrative base , from Proto-Indo-European (second-person plural pronoun). Old English had singular, dual, and plural second-person pronouns. The dual form was lost by the twelfth century, and the singular form was lost by the early 1600s. The development is shown in the following table. Early Modern English distinguished between the plural ' and the singular '. As in many other European languages, English at the time had a T–V distinction, which made the plural forms more respectful and deferential; they were used to address strangers and social superiors. This distinction ultimately led to familiar ''thou'' becoming obsolete in modern English, although it persists in some English dialects. ''Yourself'' had de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Asahi
JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as , and better known as , is a Japanese television station serving the Kanto region as the flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network. It is owned-and-operated by the a subsidiary of , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Company. Its studios are located in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo. TV Asahi is one of the "Big Six" broadcasters based in Tokyo, alongside Nippon Television, TBS, TV Tokyo, NHK General TV, and Fuji Television. History Pre-launch After NHK General TV, Nippon TV, and TBS TV were launched in 1953 and 1955, TV has become an important medium in Japan. However, most of the programs that were aired at that time were vulgar which caused well-known critic Sōichi Ōya to mention in a program that TV made people in Japan "a nation of 100 million idiots"; those criticisms already gave birth to the idea of opening an education-focused TV station. On February 17, 1956, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued freq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Station
, stylised in all caps, is a Japanese music television program. Broadcasting live weekly on TV Asahi since October 24, 1986, it currently airs from 9PM-10PM on Fridays. The program is also colloquially known as , , and . The show is currently syndicated throughout the U.S. The program has been aired internationally on Animax's networks in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other regions from March 2007. It is also broadcast in the United States and Canada through the NHK-owned TV Japan until the network's closure at the end of March 2024, in Hong Kong via TVB TVB J2, J2, in Singapore through Hello Japan! and in the People's Republic of China through CCTV-15. History ''Music Station'' is a weekly one-hour music program similar to the American Total Request Live, ''TRL'' or the British ''Top of the Pops''. It is home to various performances as well as single rankings and other corners. Many Japanese musical acts make their debut on ''Music Station'', but the show has also host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burrn!
is a monthly Japanese magazine for fans of heavy metal music, published since September 1984. It is the major publication on heavy metal music in the country. As of 2013, it is published by Shinko Music Entertainment in Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most .... The magazine's content is in Japanese and largely focuses on Western artists, while the covers are predominantly in English. History Despite being a Japanese magazine, a Japanese musician was not featured on the cover of ''Burrn!'' until the January 2016 issue featured Akira Takasaki on its cover. This does not include the separate ''Burrn! Japan'' magazine, which was published for six volumes between 1987 and 1990 to focus on Japanese artists, before being revived in 2016. This has been said to have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladybug (EP)
The discography of Japanese musician, Lisa includes 6 studio albums, 2 compilation albums, 3 extended plays, 19 singles, and 5 video albums. LiSA debuted in 2010 as a part of Girls Dead Monster, a musical group featured in the anime ''Angel Beats!'', an anime featuring a high school rock band. Lisa recorded music as the singing voice for the character Yui, and released her first single as a part of the group, " Thousand Enemies", in May 2010 through Key Sounds Label. In June 2010, Girls Dead Monster released '' Keep the Beats!'', an album entirely composed of songs sung by Lisa. The album was commercially successful; certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. In April 2011, Lisa made her debut as a soloist with the extended play ''Letters to U'', through the Sony Music Entertainment Japan sub-label Aniplex. Following this with the single "Oath Sign", recorded for the 2011 anime series ''Fate/Zero'', she released her debut album ''Lover"s"mile'' in February 2012. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa (Japanese Musician, Born 1987)
, known professionally as Lisa (stylized as LiSA), is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Seki, Gifu, signed to Sacra Music under Sony Music Artists. After aspiring to become a musician early in life, she started her musical career as the vocalist of the indie band Chucky. Following Chucky's disbandment in 2008, Lisa moved to Tokyo to pursue a solo career, making her major debut in 2010 singing songs for the anime television series ''Angel Beats!'' as one of two vocalists for the fictional band Girls Dead Monster. In April 2011, she made her solo debut with the release of her mini-album ''Letters to U''. She performed at Animelo Summer Live in August 2010, Anime Expo in 2012, and is a regular guest at Anime Festival Asia. Lisa's songs have been featured as theme music for various anime such as '' Fate/Zero'', ''Sword Art Online'' and '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''. Her singles have regularly been in the top ten of the Oricon weekly charts, with "Crossing Field" being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Island, Acoustic Sea
''Electric Island, Acoustic Sea'' is a collaborative studio album by Grammy Award-winning musicians Tak Matsumoto (Japanese guitarist of B'z fame) and Daniel Ho (American multi-instrumentalist). The album debuted at #7 on the Oricon weekly album chart and at #6 on the ''Billboard Japan'' album chart. "Island of Peace" and "Rain" are re-recordings of songs previously released in Matsumoto's 2014 solo album '' New Horizon''. Track listing Personnel * Tak Matsumoto – electric guitar, arrangement on tracks 2, 6–11 * Daniel Ho – vocals on "Faithfully"; 12-string guitar on "Soaring on Dreams"; rhythm guitar on "Soaring on Dreams" and "Magokoro (True Heart)"; acoustic guitar on tracks 5, 8, 7, 9 and 12; bass on tracks 1, 4, 5 and 6; sanshin on "Fujiyama Highway"; Ukulele on "Fujiyama Highway" and "Sunny Tuesday"; tenor & soprano ukulele on "Island of Peace"; piano on tracks 1, 3, 4, 10 and 11; keyboard on tracks 1, 3 and 4; electric piano on "Omotesando"; triangle on "Infinite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
