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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: RAY, SAKA-SAMA, Banana Monkeys and Many More at the (Free) Online YOIMACHI

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I took a break from the Spotlight for the holidays but have returned to make sure you are aware of the (FREE!) Online YOIMACHI festival being broadcast across four YouTube channels this Sunday (JST). The line up is pretty mind blowing:

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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: RAY + For Tracy Hyde, MERRY BAD END Birthdays, and Knuckle Chiwa + Hanako-San

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It looks like a Friends-of-Homicidols Weekend as we have not one, but two gigs featuring some of our favorite bands sharing the stage with some our favorite chika idols.

 Before we get to that though, MERRY BAD END have invited you to a joint birthday party for Yuina and Chihiro that they have entitled, “-I will do whatever I want-“. Damn straight you will. It’s your birthday! You can snag a livestream ticket here.

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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: BiS, NECRONOMIDOL, Satanic Punish and LiLii Kaona

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Since even a socially distanced American Thanksgiving without family still involves stuffing oneself with turkey and pie, I’m putting this post together as I fight off a turkey coma. And even though Japan doesn’t do Thanksgiving, they seem to be treating this like a long  holiday weekend with about 20 different livestreams to choose from. Visit The Calendar for the whole roster, but here’s a few that come highly recommend:

Check out the elegantly choreographed dreampop duo, LiLii Kaona, as they hold their COVID-delayed oneman live commemorating the release of EP-of-the-year contender, KIYOKU.  

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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: NECRONOMIDOL, RAY, 2&, O’CHAWNZ and more

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It’s almost the weekend! That means it’s time to attempt to plan out your idol livestreaming schedule, a task which requires an immense amount of flexibility these days.  Last weekend was a case in point as several gigs, including two full-blown festivals, waited until the day of to announce streaming options. We update The Calendar with any late additions we hear about, so keep an eye on it throughout the weekend. In the meantime, here’s some stuff we know about right now:

It is no secret that team Homicidols collectively adores RAY. If you’re not sure why, here’s a perfect opportunity to find out.

Another favorite, O’CHAWANZ make a rare appearance via livestream with the infectiously funky FAREWELL, MY L.u.v in support their new releases including a collaboration album that may very well run away with Album of the Year honors. Continue reading →

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The Wonderful Future of PARADISES and WAgg

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If you loved the PARADISES single from the other day you’ll be very pleased to know that they have five more songs out today! Let’s hope you really liked that song, because their new releases are the same song but recorded with each individual member of WAgg. You wouldn’t be far off thinking this is another strange WACK marketing tool, but this is actually the result of the latest audition from Watanabe and his conglomerate of girl gangs.

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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: MANACLE, Satanic Punish, ZOMBIE POWDER and BiSH + EMPiRE

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One of the very nicest things about chika idol livestreams (apart from them being the only way the vast majority of us can see any idol lives at all these days) is that, despite the name, you don’t actually have to watch the majority of them live.  Most of them come with a nice archive feature so, if you don’t feel like staying up until 3am, you can watch them the next day. It also comes in handy when, like this weekend, two stellar shows are being broadcast at the same time.  Case in point:

ZOMBIE POWDER is joining Dan te Lion, Chu Kiss RIP and (standout 2020 debut unit) Canary for volume 50 of the  Diffusion Φ Brightness livestream series.

But fifteen minutes after that livestream starts broadcasting, Tribu pre. SUN will be kicking off with an A-list line-up featuring MANACLE, RILISREVERSE and Shihatsu Machi Underground. Continue reading →

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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: FAREWELL MY, L.u.v, GARUDA, LiLii Kaona, BRATS + Broken By The Scream

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Congratulations on surviving a particularly heinous week. The weekend is almost here and well deserved! Of course, making plans has gotten a bit more complicated.  You may have noticed, but the latest chika idol trend has been to announce livestreaming details the day of, if not mere hours before, the live start time.  We will add late-announced items (UPDATE: Like this BURST GIRL broadcast) to the The Calendar as soon as we hear about them. As always, if you see something we’ve missed, please DM me on Twitter.

First up, the bight and funky FAREWELL My, L.u.v has a pair of shows being livestreamed to promote their new EP including a gig with debut-of-the-year contenders NELN and a birthday live for Ritsuko.

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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: NECRONOMIDOL, LiLii Kaona and Codomomental Games – Halloween Edition

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It is the most wonderful time of the year: the season of idols appearing in Halloween costumes!!  Even though Minna no Kodomochan (unfortunately) does not have a livestream this weekend [UPDATE: she does now], here’s a bonus Cinnamon as Kiki:

It would not be a proper Halloween without an appearance by the Darkness Girls themselves. NECRONOMIDOL will be streaming their holiday gig with costumed cheki options for overseas fans.

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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: RILISREVERSE, FRUITPOCHETTE, and Autumn’s Gyuno Festival

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Before diving into the normal business of highlighting gigs being broadcast from Japan, I wanted to note a series of shows being streamed from the opposite side of the Pacific. This weekend, independent music venues across the U.S. are hosting a three-day, Save Our Stages benefit to support American live houses that are struggling during the COVID crisis. As someone whose love for underground music was born in tiny rundown clubs and has grown over the years into a global pursuit of great live acts, I believe it is definitely a worthy cause. Plus it features some stellar domestic talent including Rise Against, Foo Fighters, Demi Lovato, The Roots, Reba McEntire and many others. Check it out and donate if you feel like it. 

Back to business: Debut-of-the-year contenders RILISREVERSE kick off the weekend with a free livstream on Nico Nico. 

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Your Non-TIF Weekend Livestream Spotlight: MANACLE, Sway Emotions Slightly and a Double-Dose of Hanako-San

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While a few hundred idol units are participating in this weekend’s Tokyo Idol Festival Online 2020, for some reason 14th Generation Toilet Hanako-San is, once again, not invited to perform.   I will never understand it.  It’s almost as if they don’t wish to see the Smile Garden drenched in blood.

Luckily for us though, Hanako-San and friends will be Twitcasting a pair of shows in support  of their upcoming angura-kei collaboration album, Shironuri Gekokujo ~ Shironuri Cover – Omnibus 2.  They were even kind enough to translate a flyer with show information into English for us.

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