Dan Grunebaum
Dan has written about music and produced Japanese music events in Tokyo and NYC for two decades.
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