Yet Another Solo Ringo Single
After collaborating in manyprojects as a music director/collaborator, Shiina Ringo is once again involved in another project. The ballet documentary "今日と明日の間で" (Kyou to Asu no Aida de) starring...
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Shiina Ringo - "Carnation" tracklist revealed
Just a few days before the opening concert of the Discovery Tour, there has been a lot of information coming out regarding Shiina Ringo and her solo music projects.This time it seems the cover for...
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Tokyo Jihen Live Tour 2011 Discovery (set-lists)
Instead of making a new post for every day of the Discovery tour, I decided to just keep updating this one.Remember that you won't find any recordings here, just the set-lists.Live Tour 2011...
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Shiina Ringo - 1996.10.10 - Music Quest '96
Look what I found! Shiina Ringo singing back in 1996. How nostalgic! Even though I only started listening to her in 2007.Before signing up any record deal, and after she dropped out of school, Ringo...
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Shiina Ringo - 2005.07.08 - Bokura no Ongaku 2
This episode of Bokura no Ongaku 2 focuses on Mukai Shuutoku, former member of Number Girl and founder of Zazen Boys, but Shiina Ringo is the second guest, given her relationship with Shuutoku and the...
View ArticleNew Ringo song titled "32歳の別れ"
Just to report on some news which seem to be slightly ignored by the westen community.Tokyo Jihen's set-list for yesterday's show had a slight change in the Encore section, where they decided to...
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Shiina Ringo - 2011.10.29 - Countdown TV
The first televised performance of Ringo's newest single, "Carnation". Last time Ringo performed on CDTV was back in 2007, four years ago, during the Heisei Fuuzoku promotion.Altough there's the whole...
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Shiina Ringo - 2011.11.11 - Music Station
I wish I didn't take so much time to upload this, but I've been too busy with bad-paying-work life.This "Carnation" performance is pretty much like the Countdown TV one, with playback instruments...
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Shiina Ringo - 2011.12.31 - 62th NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen
Took me a while to upload, but here is Ringo's performance at the New Year's Eve National TV Show, the 62th NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen. It's her first time performing at this important television event,...
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Sadistic News
The word is out: Tokyo Jihen have disbanded.Through a series of messages from every member, posted on Kronekodow and the official band page, Tokyo Jihen announced the end of this Phase and also the...
View ArticleEMI ROCKS 2012
Even after the dissolution news, Tokyo Jihen keep treating us with (somewhat) good news.The announced performace at the 2012 EMI ROCKS edition, on February 19, is still up, and Tokyo Jihen will perform...
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Tokyo Jihen - 2012.01.20 - Music Station
This is Tokyo Jihen's last performance on Music Station, which aired yesterday. The band decided to pick up both the last and first singles of their career: "Konya wa Karasawagi" and "Gunjou Biyori"....
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ROCKIN' ON JAPAN January 2012 Scans
Here are the scans from the Discovery Tour article included in the January issue of ROCKIN' ON JAPAN, unfortunately not quite as early as I had expected to post them. The article is a bit short on...
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Tokyo Jihen Live Tour 2012 Domestique Bon Voyage (set-lists)
Once again I'll try to cover up the setlists for the Bon Voyage Tour. The 6 days tour started yesterday, February 14, with a huge setlist bound to please most fans, even with the absense of some...
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Shiina Ringo - 2007.03.11 - Otakara Show at NHK
After the (still shocking) Tokyo Jihen dissolution, we still don't know what plans Ringo has in her mind for the future of her career. So let's take a look at what she was doing in a not so distant...
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Bon Voyage Tour DVD and Blu-Ray
The final Tokyo Jihen tour, Bon Voyage, will get a DVD and Blu-Ray release on June 13th.First-press edition will include a cardboard sleeve and an envelope-enclosed 1.000.000 Jihen paper bill. This...
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SWITCH March 2010 Scans
Here are my scans for the March 2010 issue of the SWITCH magazine, featuring loads of Ringo and Jihen content, during the Sports era.SWITCH - 2010.03Download (24 PNGs)As the cover says, there's a...
View ArticleRIAJ issues
Well, well, well...Seems like my recently-not-very-updated blog is having more and more excuses to be a little bit dead. Nevermind my lazyness and lack of Ringo news, this time RIAJ decided to act...
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New Tokyo Jihen releases this August
Today Kronekodow revealed the covers for the new Jihen releases. We can only guess if this is going to be EMI's last batch of money-milking after the band announced it's dissolution in last February...
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Tokyo Jihen "returns" in February...
Tokyo Jihen, or should I say EMI, are returning this coming February, or at least two new releases are, according to Kronekodow. Yet another best DVD and another best CD collection, both released...
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