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