Welcome back to #IHEARTJROCK ! This 3 hour podcast is filled with birthdays! Recorded in the Valley Free Radio studios Dec 17 2023. Sorry for the delay! Thanks for all the requests and help with birthday information! Playlist below. ArtistTrack titleBobby Helms Jingle Bell Rock The Style Council Walls Come Tumbling Down UB40 Red Red Wine (Edit) Repezen Foxx Battle Battle RIKU I'll be your (k)night THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE What is done feat. BOOM BOOM CASH Travis Japan LEVEL UP BE:FIRST Salvia INI FANFARE Koudai Yoshida Akuyaku Masaki Aiba Friendship Masaki Aiba Magical Song Masaki Aiba Disco Star WEST. やさしいひと WEST. Zettai Zetsumei TOMOHISA YAMASHITA Sunrise TOMOHISA YAMASHITA Sweet Vision King & Prince Beautiful Flower ENDRECHERI LOVE VS. LOVE kINKI Kids Freaky Funky Night kINKI Kids アン - ペア kINKI Kids X Day THE NOVEMBERS Seaside Hitsujibungaku  FOOLNikki(White Jam) Dog & Cat Kaela Kimura Que Sera, Sera DIR EN GREY Ain't Afraid to Die DIR EN GREY Aka Petit Brabancon a humble border BABYMETAL Divine Attack - Shingeki BABYMETAL METAL KINGDOM hide Beauty & Stupid hide Flame thee michelle gun elephant Baby Stardust The Birthday LOVE ROCKETS SixTONES アンセムSixTONES CREAK We celebrated Arashi member Aiba Masaki birthday. 相葉 雅紀 turned 41 on 12/24. Fans sent in their favorite songs to play and we had a short block to celebrate. We also celebrated Takahiro Hamada 濵田崇裕 from WEST. His birthday was on 12/19 and he turned 35. His color of the rainbow is purple 💜 He is one of the singers of WEST. also an actor. Fans sent in their requests for his birthday and we had to make a very small block to celebrate. Here is an image from 2021 when he was on the cover 💪 DIE guitarist from DIR EN GREY celebrated his 49th birthday on 12/20/23. We played 2 songs from DIR EN GREY to celebrate his birthday. He's so lovely, his hair so long and flowing. The DJs had got to see him in action at the NYC performance of DEG back in 2019. ❤️‍🔥 https://videopress.com/v/AnKEINpc?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&loop=true&muted=true&persistVolume=false&playsinline=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Another birthday we celebrated was one of the members of BabyMetal Su-Metal or Suzuka Nakamoto 中元 すず香 Her birthday is the same as DIE 12/20 but she only turned 26! We had a few requests for BabyMetal and played a short block. hide birthday was 12/13 and every year on #IHEARTJROCK we celebrate his life and death. They seem to be also doing the same in Japan https://www.hide-city.com/profile/eng.html Lastly there was another death in the world of jrock in November. The lead singer of The Birthday and Thee Michelle Gun Elephant passed away on 11/26  Yusuke Chiba passed away from cancer. His voice was unique, he will be missed.