Love Me Tender

The previously announced international reunion tour of X Japan will be postponed indefinitely due to Yoshiki, leader of X Japan, experiencing medical problems. He has been suffering from chronic disc herniation, and his conditions have worsened during the memorial concerts held in May, in honor of former band guitarist, Hide, who passed away on May 2, 2008.

This announcement will affect the concerts scheduled for Paris (July 5), Taiwan (August 2), and New York City (September 13). All ticket sales have been stopped, and neither cancellation nor rescheduling of the shows have been announced.

I’m sure there are many disappointed fans out there, but Yoshiki health comes before the concerts.

Source: Sankei Sports via Tokyograph

High and Mighty Color (HMC),a J-rock band, recently released an album called Rock Pit. My favourite track so far on this album is their cover of Rosier, originally performed by Luna Sea. Give it a listen over at imeem.com. I actually like the cover more than the original. The female vocal really worked for this song.

I recently stumbled on some videos of a band called Show Ya on YouTube. They are an 80s J-Rock band from Japan (duh). How I’ve never heard of them is beyond me.

Anyway, the few songs I heard from them are pretty cool. From what I’ve read, they got back together in 2005 an released a 20th anniversary album, and also did some concerts.

Check out one of their live concert videos. Pretty sure this was from one of their reunion concert.