Dan Grunebaum
Dan has written about music and produced Japanese music events in Tokyo and NYC for two decades.
The Lagerphones
Melbourne party jazz outfit
Kodo
Eri Uchida talks women in taiko
Supercozi Sounds from Outside Japan
Producer Yukimi Yonezawa finds musical freedom in Bali
Pink Cow Community Fundraiser
Expat landmark needs help
Dosem
The underground sound of Spain
Keith Ape – (It G Ma) ft. JayAllday, loota, Okasian, Kohh
Korean-Japanese rapprochement, rap-style
PUNiK
Speaking the universal language of punk
Mogwai Evolution
The amiable Scottish colossus enters its third decade
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
The three-piece band keep it in the family
Enter Dot Hacker
The LA rock outfit come Alive
Return of Swans
The New York rockers make new magic
Art-conoclast
The Container fills with Jack McLean’s imagination
Andrew “Plug” Lazonby
The brains behind Hostess Weekender
Benjamin Skepper
Aussie-Japanese musician’s postmodern soundscapes
Vampire Weekend
The NYC hipsters sink their teeth into Tokyo
Summer Festival Guide ’13
From analog headbangers to techno raves, Japan's music fests have everything under the sun
Music & Stage: A Decade of Decadence
From vaginas and gaijin J-rap to rock festivals and J-pop's demise
Richard Pinhas
French avant-guitar god’s anti-neoliberal sonics
Jazztronik
Ryota Nozaki fuses live jazz and electronica
Karl Hyde
Fresh off the Olympics, Underworld’s frontman stabs out solo
Festival/Tokyo 2012
Japan’s marquee theater fest defends free speech post-3/11
Patti Smith
Don’t call her a survivor