April 2nd - Evening Edition

Busy, busy, busy.

[Los Angeles, CA]  This is an addendum to the previous post. Between then and now, Anime Expo has  officially announced LiSA as a guest for the convention. LiSA's page is here, and she looks super cute! 

[Santa Monica, CA]  JrockRevolution.com's website  is feeling sorry for itself. Currently, the background is a photo of a typhoon in Hong Kong and the description in the title is, "Times are Tough for Poor Little Jrock Revolution". There has not been an official statement made on JRR's Twitter or Facebook (actually they haven't updated since March 23rd). Jrock Revolution began as a festival in May 2007, and their website was originally a placeholder and community for future events. After it became evident that no such events would occur, the website unofficially changed its name to JrockRevolution.com.

[WA & CA]  STEREOPONY is playing in San Francisco , Hollywood, and Santa Ana on a three-stop tour called More! More!! More!!*. The dates and locations are April 9th at Amoeba Records, April 10th at Slim's, 11th at the Key Club, and 12th at Yost Theater. VIP tickets are available for $40, general admission tickets are $25. STEREOPONY are also playing at Sakura-Con in Washington this weekend.
*Not to be confused with the capsule's song and album More! More! More!.

[Anaheim, CA]  Here's a backlog of news on the convention AM2 (Anime Music Manga). AM2 has an interesting set up where the convention is essentially free, but purchase of a "passport" allows you access to special events like concerts. They are going to be giving away 2 tickets for STEREOPONY's upcoming US Tour to all their passport holders. Go and sign up!

Also, AM2 have announced their first musical guest from Japan, visual kei group Ant1nett. It should be known that back in July of 2011, Ant1nett performed at 2nd Street Jazz and was the last band of the night to play.; after a brief sound check, their vocalist Masa performed half of the first song than walked off stage. Later, he made negative comments on Facebook about the low attendance rates and Los Angeles in general. Those have now been deleted. Hopefully, his attitude toward LA has changed.

April 2nd News

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[US]  Yoshiki Hayashi has made a cameo in the new Tenacious D music video "To Be The Best". Tenacious D's first album in six years, Rize of the Fenix, will be released on May 15th. You can see the official video here (Yoshiki shows up around the :48 second mark). The press release is here.

[Los Angeles, CA]  At the recent Anime Contents Expo, LiSA announced that she will be performing at Anime Expo. Anime News Network describes her activities: "LiSA performed songs as part of the in-anime band "Girls Dead Monster" in the Angel Beats! television anime series. She then contributed the song "oath sign" for the first half of the Fate/Zero television anime series." Her website is here; Anime Expo's website is here although guests are not yet announced.

[Anaheim, CA]  Indie "loud/screamo style hybrid rock" band Another Story has stated on their website that they will be "in Los Angeles" for a week starting April 3rd and there will be a live. Although dates are not (yet?) listed on their website, there is a Facebook event page for an April 6th performance at Mirror Image Studios in Anaheim. Local visual-kei group LuCiD will be joining them. Another Story's website is here, their Ameblo is here.
Last year, Another Story performed at a minor event here called Revolt 2011 which was put on by a promotional company called Nameless Group. Which leads us to...

Nameless Group is organizing another local event called Awake -2012-. Information on this is hard to find because Nameless Group's website is really outdated. It will be at Good Hurt in Venice, California, July 3, 2012. There doesn't seem to be artists listed yet.