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Hikin’
Watch your withholding... Tax laws have changed
Cockneys vs. Zombies
A facking fan toime
Ra Ra Riot
New York chamber popsters sing of robot love
Jan 9, 2013
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on January 2013 Cat in a [...]
Amature Amplifier
Some call it 21st-century Korean post-folk
January 9, 2013
Death by dumbbell and other weighty stories
Looper
Doesn’t cheat
Freelancers
50 Cent making Steven Seagal look like Daniel Day-Lewis
Lay The Favorite
A betting man would lose
Taken 2
...the cleaners
Grounded Theory Night
Tap up the Teutonic this Saturday
Tokyo Furusato Matsuri
Taste Japan’s biggest festivals—at the same time
The Sun, The Moon, and Fuji
Sony Art Wall, Ginza
Sorry For Being A Genius
An exclusive interview with controversial artist Makoto Aida
PM 13: Welcome to the New Japan
Two views on the recent elections
Anonymous Life
Strange new forms of life and art take shape at the ICC
The New Mastersounds
When does a house band become a “real band”?
2013 in Preview
Star-crossed, bound and struck in the coming year
New Year’s Exhibition
Have an auspicious view of a block-printed Fuji
2012 in Quotes
Newsy tidbits from the past year, taken from the Metropolis Small Print
The Best of Koenji
Consumption is rife in Hippytown
Sparks
Ron and Russ Mael’s “Two Hands, One Mouth” tour