Art
King Brothers
Rock ’n’ roll, demolished, and not put back together again
Kev Gray & The Gravy Train
Veteran expat pubrocker’s Valentine Blues bash
UFC Japan 2013
The MMA championship is back with a bang after last year’s barnstormer
One Song, One Soul
The Room 20th Anniversary Party Special
Haroon Mirza
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize Winner
Voca People
Beat-boxing meets Blue Man
Takao Trick Art Museum
Take your eyeballs on a visual joyride
The Girl
Indie icon Aiha Higurashi’s latest
Marc Antona
Sexy organic techno for Oooze’s 11th
Odoroom Party
Ride the crest of internet culture at this free party
Xanadu
The roller disco of forbidden love
Beach House
Ebisu Liquidroom, Jan 20
Domani
The Art of Tomorrow 2013
Bloc Party
Postpunk revivalists purvey their new Four
Speculative Japan 3
“Silver Bullet” and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
Alabama Shakes
Brittany Howard’s post-racial rock
Hyperrealism
Going beyond the photographic
Crystal Castles & Sleigh Bells
Hipster’s Delight
Ra Ra Riot
New York chamber popsters sing of robot love
Amature Amplifier
Some call it 21st-century Korean post-folk
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
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”?
Sparks
Ron and Russ Mael’s “Two Hands, One Mouth” tour
Once and Twice
A global clutch of first-rate dancers
Traces of Hands
Rodin and his spawn
06S feat. Netsky
Young DnB prodigy meets clubland veteran
Kinlay
Golden Zero
Game For A Break
Avoid New Year variety shows by switching to sports
Countdown Strategies 2013
Blow it out, Tokyo
Hakuin
A Zen master—and influential artist, too
Dave Clarke
The Baron of Techno