January 21, 2010: Podcast Update and Winter Anime Day

Happy 2010!

Join us this Saturday, December 23rd, at 1PM, hosted by Peter Tatara of NYAF.

SBR will be there playing clips of the visual kei artist, Charlotte, the new song "BLESS" by Laruku, amongst many other artists. There will be a raffle at 5:45PM.

Last but not least, we finally updated our Podcast area.

December 18, 2009: Zamza Part 2, X'mas at Kino and Laruku

The second part to Zamza's podcast has been uploaded.

We'll be playing several holiday themed J-Pop songs tomorrow at Kinokuniya and will also be doing the "Rate J-Pop Japanese Songs" voting. If you haven't voted yet, come by our booth by the Domo-kun X'mas tree to do so. Or just drop by to say hi to Megumi and the staff. SBR will also be showcasing a new and upcoming J-pop group, May's, with their song "Happy Christmas."

Now a real treat for the hardcore L'arc-en-ciel fans out there. Even though the band won't begin activities for another year, they will be releasing a new single titled "BLESS" on January 27, 2010 in Japan. The U.S. release of this single will be announced soon. The song will be aired heavy this winter on NHK, Japan's national network channel as the "NHK's Vancouver 2010 Broadcasting Theme Song."

December 6, 2009: Kinokuniya Bookstore’s Big Christmas Raffle & Jpop X'mas Songs

Kinokuniya will be having a raffle event on December 19th (Sat.) starting at 1PM. Fans of the bookstore may get something really cool! Along with with that, we will be playing the selected JPop songs in store at 2PM and 4PM by the Domo-kun Christmas Tree at Kinokuniya, with prizes waiting for you. We'll have more details later on.

SBR is now on iTunes! We have the Dir en grey interview and Jinsei-Hitonari Tsuji's interview about his new band, Zamza, up there as well.

December 5, 2009: Zamza Podcast and Another Event

We hope you checked out Zamza's show last month. It was really fun. They were also nice enough to make a podcast for us regarding their band, their music and history. Check it out!

With the holidays just around the corner, SBR is getting in the seasonal mood! SBR has started a "Rate J-Pop Christmas Songs" section on our blog. Here is what we have up so far:

More will be added later, along with a detailed announcement of our upcoming event at Kinokuniya.

To get into the holiday season, we decided to brighten up our website for a change. The black was getting a little dreary for us, after all.