Dan Grunebaum
Dan has written about music and produced Japanese music events in Tokyo and NYC for two decades.
Tokyo Crossover Jazz Festival
Impresario Shuya Okino changes tack
Tokimonsta
LA’s leftfield hip-hop honey heads up Brainfeeder night
Owl City
Small-town boy Adam Young makes good with a big heart
Blue Mind
It’s about finding your inner Blue Man, says Tokyo show’s Callum Grant
Prefuse 73
The instrumental hip-hop guru fronts this year’s Neutral Nation
Atari Teenage Riot
Alec Empire ponders his band’s reunion on the sidelines of Fuji Rock
Summer Music Festival Guide ’11
Japan’s quake-shocked music fans get a jolt of rock therapy
Friendly Fires
The UK dance unit finds a fleeting paradise on Pala
Fishbone
With a new rock doc and album, is it finally the LA warhorse’s moment?
Big Audio Dynamite
The UK post-punk pioneers are back in vogue
Shuya Okino
Jazz meets boogie on the impresario’s new disc
Turtle Island
The roots-punk collective heads up Radical Music Network’s 10th anniversary
Dimitri from Paris
The debonair DJ’s latest mix is quite literally music to make love to
Yoshinori Sunahara
One of the year’s best electronica discs was ten years in the making
Bing Ji Ling
The NYC singer prepares a shot of late-night psychedelic soul
Logic System
The synthesizer godfather is feted by a new generation
Pantheon of Japanese Rock Gods
Metropolis celebrates the Japanese men who rocked the planet
Hayley Sales
The wandering American songstress heads up this year’s Greenroom fest
Carl Craig
The Detroit lynchpin’s imprint arrives at a landmark year
Quake Aid
Banding together to support quake victims
Fran Healy
The Travis frontman goes it alone
Jack Johnson
The rocker-activist puts his money on the line for the environment