After their previous U.S. debut on the Japan Girls Night tour in March, Sister Records / Benten Label’s GO!GO!7188 will make their way to three U.S. cities including Chicago, New York, and somewhere in PA.

This time around they are accompanying aspiring “punk” (okay) artist Tokyo Alice as she displays her work. Each city will have different supporting acts, so be sure to read on..

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Greetings everyone, dunlap reporting in straight from Atlanta’s AWA anime convention with information on our favorite trio of female rockers, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re. They played last night at the convention and to be honest I was blown away. They’ve got one more show down here in Atlanta on Tuesday before they head out on tour with the Suicide Girls, and I can’t recommend seeing them enough! At $5 a ticket this show is a steal. And I’ll be there, too! If things go well I’ll have some more content up here after the show…

Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re Suicide Girls tour dates are:

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Mais, oui! C’est vrais. Maintenant vous pouvez lire l’interview d’Ellegarden..en français.

Merci, V²-Stuff pour cette traduction.

Original here. Translation follows.

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This is an initial version of the Morning Scene Show Map. I wanted to take the easy route first, and get dirty with the code later. This is an external site, since I am not a fan of the way this service embeds, but soon enough, I’ll have a sexier in-site version.

http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/widescreen/21563

As a side note, this does let you post pictures, video, and comments relating to each event.

AnimeFest, a 4-day convention held in Dallas, TX is proud to annouce FLOW as their musical guest for the convention, which runs September 1st through 4th.

FLOW is best known for providing songs for the mega-hit Naruto, and Eureka 7.

Registration is still available!

Anime Evolution, a convention in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, will be hosting such musical guests as Kumiko Kato for their upcoming convention, which runs August 19th-21st.

Slated to appear are j-pop cutie Kumiko Kato, and a fun-time band ZZ Band. From this side of the pond, a visual kei band from Canada called eqlipsE, rockers Keith & Kosine, and j-rock/pop cover band Drive. (Keith from Keith & Kosine is also a voice actor for the anime industry.)

Pre-registration is almost over, but passes can be obtained at-con too.

Blair, of TurnItUpSideDown, informs us that FrogPilot will debut their new lineup — now including a second guitarist, Yushi — at the Smiling Buddha Bar (once again) in Toronto on August 5th at 8:00PM for a thrifty $5. For the record, that adds to the previous lineup of Satoshi, Takashi, and Kodo Ryuji.

Nana Kitade, as seen in the previous post relating to some Otakon-related issues, will also be seen in Virgin Megastores in the cities of New York, Boston, and San Francisco. There she will be performing, meeting, signing autographs, and generally doing the things one does at a record store appearance.

Check out the times and locations..

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The below is from the horse’s mouth (in this case, Tofu Records, of course). Where it speaks of fashion show, that is relating to a Gothic and Lolita fashion event to be judged by Yoshiki and Nana Kitade. So..get your parasols ready.

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This is an updated listing of the previously announced “Splurge Splurge Splurge” tour from the girl-pop duo everyone loves, Puffy AmiYumi — now officially under the Tofu Records label, I might add.

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