DJ Sakura and DJ Silent return to the studios for another live #iheartjrock. Tune in SAT 10PM EST on 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA. We stream on valleyfreeradio.org. We play music from #japan and #retro stuff.
We’re a bit upset about something and would like to share something with you. We recently read a comment to an AI generated photo that left us a bit emotional. To handle this situation, DJ Sakura has been busy making new icons for the radio station and #iheartjrock. She will try to not use the images in the immediate future. It seems a whole year has gone by since creating AI images, and a lot of images have been created as well. It appears to be useless and must start over.
DJ Sakura has already made a radio and a cherry blossom stick. It’s a new beginning.
Which ended up making this.
Anyways, hope you get to tune into #iheartjrock or listen to the archives. We’ll be posting march and april sometimes soon. Really we will.
MIYAVI has announced his first new album in three years, titled “Lost In Love, Found In Pain.” Part one of this album, “Lost In Love,” will be digitally released on download and streaming websites worldwide this summer.
A short music video for “Eat Eat Eat,” a song included in “Lost In Love,” has been revealed. Directed by Darren Craig, who also handled the album design, the video depicts an impactful scene where MIYAVI is surrounded by four dancing women while he is tied to a chair and threatened with a knife.
The newly released short music video is about 30 seconds long, and several unused cuts from it will be posted as short clips on social media from April 3. We hope you will enjoy this video, which resonates with the album’s theme of “Duality.”
Stay tuned for more updates, including the release of “Running In My Head,” the theme song of Code Geass: Roze of the Recapture, and developments regarding the second part of the album, “Found In Pain.”
Music Video
Eat Eat Eat – Short Music Video 🔥
YouTube:
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Calling all #IHeartJRock fam! Our DJs are taking a well-deserved break tonight, but fear not! We’ve got a special treat lined up – a killer archive episode featuring the best snippets from 3 past shows. Get ready for a hit-packed trip down memory lane – you won’t want to miss it!
1 hour from each of the these 3 months. Strap into your time machines!
Remember January 2021? We were still masked up, but the spirit of New Year’s was strong. That’s the night DJ Silent kicked off #IHeartJRock with a blast of his favorite band, followed by an electrifying hour of #SixTONES and pure #J-Rock energy. Fast forward to April 2022 – the world felt a little brighter. We celebrated with a fantastic mix of Japanese artists in the second hour, throwing in an extra special bonus track just for good measure! The good vibes continued through the final hour, coming from the heat of Aug 2023!
Below are links to the full shows, with commentary, photos, and new materials.
Answer this question in the comment box below, under “Do The Thing! 🤘” . Then click “Comment”!
Question: What is better #JPOP or #JROCK ?
Get ready to rock your weekend with iHeartJRock! This 3-hour podcast is your one-stop shop for the hottest J-pop, J-rock, and retro hits from around the globe. We’ve got a massive playlist to keep you grooving, so there’s something for everyone. Tune in every Saturday night at 10PM EST on Valley Free Radio and let the good times roll!
The next-generation music project Rokudenashi, consisting of TikTok singing sensation Ninzin and a variety of up-and-coming Vocaloid producers, has been selected to perform the ending theme song for the TV anime Train to the End of the World, which will air from April 1 in Japan.
3rd anime promotional video
Train to the End of the World is the latest original animation by director Tsutomu Mizushima, who is known for his work on popular titles such as Shirobako and Girls und Panzer. Handling the series composition is Michiko Yokote, who has collaborated with Mizushima on various works including Shirobako and Prison School. Mizushima and Yokote, known for tackling unconventional themes in their previous works, are now taking on the challenge of “apocalyptic world × train × friendship” for this project. This unique combination promises an anime unlike anything seen before, generating high expectations from fans.
The new song, “Eureka,” which marks the first anime tie-up for Rokudenashi, was composed by Vocaloid producer Tota Kasamura. It will be released on digital services on April 2, immediately after the broadcast of the first episode of the anime. You can hear a portion of the song in the latest promotional video for the anime, which was released today. Please give it a listen!
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Witch & Lilies is an upcoming dungeon crawler for Steam based on the theme of “romance between girls,” being developed by the up-and-coming game company Stromatosoft in collaboration with Bandai Namco Music Live. It has been announced that the theme song of Witch & Lilies, titled “Dog-ear,” will be sung by Marina Horiuchi.
This song will be available for streaming on subscription services from April 3, 2024, prior to the game’s release.
■About Witch & Lilies
Witch & Lilies is a 3D dungeon crawler with the theme of “romance between girls.” Players form a party of five girls from 10 different job classes as they navigate dungeons to unravel the mysteries of the witch who created the world. While it maintains a classic dungeon crawler format, it also allows one to savor various types of romantic relationships between girls.
This game conducted crowdfunding in September 2022, attracting significant attention among gamers and surpassing its funding goal by over 2100%. It is slated for release in early 2024.
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Sorry for the lack of updating. Happy New Year from iheartjrock.com. It’s already 2024, we are almost a quarter into 2000! 2023 was a big struggle, so hoping 2024 will be much better!
Also happy New Year from everyone at Valley Free Radio, the studio where #iheartjrock and #SakuraUnderground are recorded. DJ Sakura666 did a graphic for the new year also.
It is #iheartjrock Saturday, sadly we won’t be able to do a new show this week. We will be back 1/13 and celebrate DJ Silent’s birthday. We’ve done it before, we wonder what he will play next week!!
Just letting you know, the requests for this week will be played next week and also, if you have not seen the announcement we have added songs from the 1990s to the show, so if you were around in the 90s and want to relive that decade, feel free to send requests by filling out the form!
The radio show/podcast #iheartjrock was created at the Valley Free Radio studios in Feb of 2017. It was on Saturdays 12AM EST until 2 AM. A lot of music was played on air for a year then moved to Saturdays at 10PM. DJ Sakura666 was all alone until 2019 when DJ Silent came onboard with music from the 80s. #iheartjrock moved to 3 hours in 2023.
This year there were tons new requests from music from Japan. A lot of it was Japanese Pop, and not so much japanese rock, but we played what we could and also kept up with classic jrock bands, vk bands.
We held a poll asking about favorite things of 2023. Thank you very much for taking time out of your day to look at it and spread your opinion. It is very helpful. We will discuss this on #iheartjrock 12/30. We especially look forward to knowing favorite movies, anime and video games.
Spinitron also have a log of all the songs DJ Sakura666 spun this year. We will have a countdown and also play 3 of your favorite songs for each of the following bands #SixTONES (releases from 2023) #WEST.(formerly JohnnysWEST) (releases from 2023) #KingandPrince(releases from 2022, and below) #Arashi (releases from all time)
We are very grateful for everyone sending so many cds and special fans only merchandise. We treasure all of it. Also the DVDs. Such lovely sights to see!
So a countdown to most played songs on #iheartjrock We will talk about the #iheartjrock Poll Best movies, music, anime, video games and more
No 80s this week. We are going to celebrate the 2023, it had a lot of death, and sad jpop changes, but we also got to celebrate good things like birthdays and anniveraries., new projects, new movies, new dramas.
Tune in SAT 10PM EST on 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA streaming on valleyfreeradio.org or your favorite radio website/app. We are 3 hours of music overload!
It is up!! Vote for your best and favorite on 2023! Click the link below, you will be transported to a list of question and answers. Take your time, we will talk about them on #iheartjrock 12/30. It’s a google form so a google email is needed, not sure if it’s anonymous. It’s our first google form. Please be patient. Also please enjoy!
DJ Sakura666 and DJ Silent will be back in the studios for another live #IHEARTJROCK tonight at 10PM EST on 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA streaming online for free everywhere!
IHEART JROCK is 3 hour radio/podcast that plays music from the 80s, Japan, and something completely different every week live, past shows are posted to the website and also your favorite podcast provider.
This week DJ Silent will be memorializing Geordie Walker from one of his favorite bands Killing Joke. Geordie had a unique sound and many people loved it. We will be playing some Killing Joke and a song from the The Damage Manual. Geordie was also in another band called Murder Inc. and also played on the ZILCH album 3.2.1 which sadly is not available to listen to in USA. ZILCH is an older industrial project created by HIDE with also members of Spread Beaver, Pigface, and Killing Joke. Both DJs did get to see Killing Joke perform in Boston a few years back and were amazing!! RIP Kevin Walker ! Taken away so soon!
We also will be celebrating member of SixTONES Taiga Kyomoto Birthday with some of the bands he has been listening to also, his solo/duet songs and of course SixTONES !! So excited for the new album! Thanks for the birthday wishes, if you would be like to leave one please visit ⬇️⬇️⬇️
How is 2023 almost over already? DJ Sakura666 will be posting a best of 2023 soon and also be sharing past best of iheartjrock’s so please look forward to those!!
“Lullaby” Produced by Popular Vocaloid Producer Kanna Tateisu
Full-Size Music Video Also Released!
Illustration: Zombie Numata
Yuyu, a 16-year-old singer who won the Grand Prize in the Next Artist category of the “Inucon 2022!” FlyingDog Artist Discovery Audition held last year, has released her debut single “fam/Lullaby.” Simultaneously, a full-size music video for “Lullaby” has also been revealed, establishing Yuyu as a next generation artist in the internet music scene.
“Lullaby” MV (Full Size):
The music video was crafted by the visual creator Architrave. “Lullaby” features lyrics written by Yuyu, with composition and arrangement by the popular Vocaloid producer Kanna Tateisu, who is known for their cool and highly addictive sound.
The CD single is available in two versions: the “Yuyu Edition” and the “Anime Edition.” Each edition includes different coupling songs, and digital distribution for these tracks has also begun.
Additionally, the music video for “fam,” which serves as the ending theme for part 2 of the currently airing anime The Ancient Magus’ Bride season 2, is also available.
“fam” MV (Full Size):
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Greetings! Just a quick update, #iheartjrock, will not be live this week. We are taking a break from the studio and will be catching up on uploading previous #IHEARTJROCK and #SAKURAUNDERGROUND; this fund drive was stressful this year. Thanks to all those who have donated, or sent gifts, or tuned in, or shared the social media posts, or passed the word to family friends and co-workers. We have reached our goal this year, and have already started the process of upgrading! Again!
Some graphics DJSAKURA666 created for the fund drive. There are a lot more and some mp4/gifs
We won’t really be taking requests this week, but if you send them it will mostly be played on the next broadcast.
Next broadcast will be DEC 2nd 10PM EST on 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA ; we will be celebrating Taiga from #SixTONES again this year! Feel free to leave a birthday wish on the webpage
iheartjrock.com/sixtonesbday ; I’m thinking playing some MR Children , Macaroni Pencil, Maximum the Hormone and Bowie !
Just a reminder #iheartjrock is a 3 hour radio program in the USA that plays music from the #80s, #jrock and #jpop and sometimes something different. We air Saturdays 10PM EST on 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA stream on valleyfreeradio.org/listen or your favorite radio app/website. Link to past shows up at the top of the page. We are a bit behind uploading recent shows, but there are many archived shows to listen to and last 2 shows can be heard at Spinitron. https://spinitron.com/WXOJ/pl/18105693/I-Heart-JROCKhttps://spinitron.com/m/playlist/view/18074295 <– Halloween!!
DJ SAKURA666 has been spinning music from Japan since 2017! We celebrate birthdays and now, sadly people who have passed. There are announcement about upcoming performances, bands updates, sometimes dramas, we talk Star Wars also. Gaming. Never dull, always amazing, never professional. If your up late, in the USA or enjoying your afternoon overseas. Give a listen.
Also, later in the show.
Calling all night owls and J-rock enthusiasts!
Join us for the electrifying kickoff of Valley Free Radio’s Fall Fund Drive, hosted by our very own DJ Sakura666! Her show, IHeart JRock Wxoj, will be live in the studio from 12 AM to 1 AM, bringing you a mix of captivating 80s hits and the finest Japanese rock and pop.
Immerse yourself in the vibrant sounds of Japan as Sakura666 takes you on a musical journey, featuring both English and Japanese vocals. And to make the night even more special, we encourage you to send in your song requests via iheartjrock.com/request.
Don’t miss this chance to support Valley Free Radio and experience the electrifying energy of DJ Sakura666’s IHeart JRock Wxoj show. Tune in at midnight and let the music take you away!
Don’t forget to donate –> valleyfreeradio.org/donate please mention IHEARTJROCK or DJ Sakura666 sent you! Valley Free Radio is a locally run, independent non profit radio station in WMASS who rely on the support of listeners and friends/family to keep our station on the airwaves. We do stream online, and it’s available to listen to for free! Just a few dollars will help keep you listening to your favorite programming!
IHEART JROCK is back in the Valley Free Radio studios tonight/tomorrow overseas! DJ Silent and DJ Sakura666 are done being spooky and are ready to rock. We will celebrate birthdays and anniversaries!
Tune in on the radio 10PM EST on 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA or on the streaming end valleyfreeradio.org/listen; or your favorite listening app or website. search #iheartjrock or #valleyfreeradio
We are 3 hours of #80s, #jrock, #jpop and a little bit of something else each week.
We also play requests, thanks for going to the iheartjrock request page and leaving your requests along with other personal messages only the DJs can read.
Don’t forget to share the love of #Jrock and #Jpop! Spread the word about #iheartjrock.
Happy #IHEARTJROCK Saturday! Just a reminder #iheartjrock is 3 hour radio/podcast that plays #80s hits, #jrock and #jpop with some other things thrown in! We go live 10PM EST on Saturday 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA , also streaming on valleyfreeradio.org or your favorite internet webpage streaming site or app.
This week is our Halloween party, we will be playing songs posted on the Halloween request page, thanks for all the requests! We will have some Halloween related #80s #Jpop and #Jrock!
We will also have a moment of silence and celebrate the life of Atsushi Sakurai who sadly and suddenly past. Feel free to add your thoughts and memories to the page below.
Saturday Nights 10PM EST on 1033.FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA 80s, Japanese Pop and Rock on the Radio! Tune in and jam out!
Tonight we celebrate K.A.Z almost all the projects he has been in, there are songs from the 80s, some jpop requests, maybe some Zombies… lol.. tune in online or streaming valleyfreeradio.org/listen
past shows on this website
we play 80s jpop and jrock which is music from japan. sometimes they sing in english, sometimes its all in Japanese. it’s a learning experience. also a lot of fun, tune in if you can.
YOASOBI x Honeyfeed Writing Contest Begins October 8
Chance for Your Story to Be Recognized as an Official Spin-off of “Into The Night”
TOKYO – October 2, 2023 YOASOBI & Honeyfeed celebrate together the Japanese music duo’s monumental success of their debut song, “Into The Night” (Yoru ni Kakeru), which amassed one billion plays across various platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. And what better way to celebrate than a writing contest!?
YOASOBI is famous for their motto “novels into music”, and inspired by the Japanese web novel “An Invitation from Thanatos” written by Mayo Hoshino, they started their musical journey back in 2019. Honeyfeed invites all aspiring writers to pay tribute to their roots by creating a spin-off story based on both the song and the original story.
Writers can submit their spin-off story to Honeyfeed starting October 8, 2023, and those who complete the contest by November 5, 2023, will have a chance to be voted on as one of the three contest winners and get a $1,000 reward. In addition, the grand prize winner selected by YOASOBI will get their novel recognized as an official spin-off and it will be displayed in the description for the official video and shared by YOASOBI on their social platforms.
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Please join DJ Sakura666 and DJ Silent at 10PM EST on 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA streaming on valleyfreeradio.org or your favorite internet radio provider!
#SilentTime is back again this week, we have birthday wishes, and lots of Japanese music too!
We are getting ready for K.A.Z special birthday show next week so don’t forget to leave a birthday wish –> here <—
We are also going to be taking requests for our Halloween show that will air 10/28, the link will be up shortly! We are looking for your favorite Halloween song, from any time and any place. We will accept any words with “horror” “vampire” “devil” “evil” “monster” “moon” “halloween” “black” “magic” etc. etc.
Hope you can tune in tonight/tomorrow overseas in less than 12 hours!
It has been officially announced that “Walküre FINAL LIVE TOUR 2023 〜Last Mission〜,” which took place from May to June this year, will soon be available on Blu-ray and DVD.
Kicking off on May 20 at Tokyo Ariake Arena, followed by performances at Maruzen Intec Arena Osaka and Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Halls 1-3, “Walküre FINAL LIVE TOUR 2023 〜Last Mission〜” marked the first-ever six-performance arena tour in Macross history, entertaining a total of approximately 74,000 attendees. The final show witnessed fierce ticket competition, with numerous fans eagerly anticipating a video release.
This product, which captures the excitement and enthusiasm of the live venues, will be released in five different formats.
The limited-edition “Mission Complete Edition,” exclusively available on Blu-ray, includes approximately 10 hours of footage, featuring Tokyo Ariake Arena Day 1 & Makuhari Messe Day 6 performances, Tokyo Ariake Arena Day 2 & Makuhari Messe Day 5 encore segments, and an in-depth documentary offering an inside look into all six performances. Additionally, it comes in a special collector’s case accompanied by a lavish 68-page photo book.
The standard edition will be available in four different formats, each containing the tour’s opening day and final show on both Blu-ray and DVD. “At Tokyo Ariake Arena (Day 1)” comprises footage from the Day 1 performance at Tokyo Ariake Arena and backstage documentary footage from both Tokyo shows. “At Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Halls (Day 6)” similarly features footage from the Day 6 performance at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Halls 1-3 and backstage documentary material from both Makuhari performances. All Blu-ray versions offer a dual sound mode, with 5.1-channel surround and 2-channel stereo, to faithfully reproduce the overwhelming energy of the massive stages. (Please note that the DVD and documentary are available in 2-channel stereo only.)
The cover features an original illustration drawn by Chisato Mita (CAPCOM), the character designer for MacrossΔ. This striking illustration portrays the Walküre members adorned in their pristine white live outfits, evoking the theme of “departure.” Please don’t forget to book your copy!
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Happy #humpday everyone! Hope everyone had a nice relaxing weekend/holidays. DJ Silent and DJ Sakura will be back in the studios for more music overload!
Get your requests in, we will play them Sat 10PM on 103.3FM WXOJ-LP Northampton MA USA stream on valleyfreeradio.org/listen ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Just a reminder #iHeartJRock is a 3-hour podcast that plays the best J-pop, J-rock, and 80s hits from all over the world. We have a wide variety of music to choose from, so you’re sure to find something you love. Whether you’re a fan of classic J-pop like AKB48 and Morning Musume, or you’re more into the latest J-rock bands like ONE OK ROCK and RADWIMPS, we have something for you. We also play a variety of 80s hits from all over the world, so you can relive your childhood or discover some new music. We’re updated weekly with new music, so be sure to subscribe and never miss a beat!
Don’t forget to like, listen and follow #SakuraUnderground. DJ Silent will be back to share some more interesting obscure, emotional music from all over.
Also don’t forget to leave a birthday wish for K.A.Z guitarist for Oblivion Dust and so on. This is DJ Sakura666’s TIKTOK video of the legend. Birthday wishes — > here <—
Fill in the box at the bottom of the page and hit reply. We will celebrate on 10/14 in USA !!
K.A.Z will be 55 years young. He got his start in hide with spread beaver, helped form Oblivion Dust and also joined the other Hyde for VAMPS which toured the USA a bunch of times!!
