Art
Spiral Independent Creators Festival
Tokyo’s most compact art expo
Big Daddy Kane
with special guest Kurtis Blow
Rainbow Disco Club
Bayside rave is back
Hiroshi Sugimoto: From Naked to Clothed
Were we happier when we were naked?
Timmy Regisford
“The Maestro” makes his first appearance at Vision
RICHARD PINHAS and MERZBOW
Rhizome
Ryoichi Kurokawa
SonarSound’s most intriguing act isn’t strictly musical
The Charlatans
The UK indie-rockers join the traveling Haçienda circus
Morrissey
Still packing out houses across the planet
Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2012
Could this year’s Tokyo’s Pride parade reach critical mass?
Kaikoo
Embarrassment of alt music riches
Black & Gold Release Party
DJ Kawasaki unleashes his new album
Vienna State Ballet
Two day gala including Nureyev tribute
The Disaster Zone
In the Eyes of One Foreign Journalist
Cocoon Heroes Tokyo
Fabled Frankfurt nightspot’s traveling circus
The Pogues
Studio Coast, Mar 28
The Inca Empire Revealed
A Century After the Machu Picchu “Discovery”
Miya
Improvisational flautist shows off her technique
Tokyo Story 2012
Tokyo Wonder Site’s residents’ exhibition
06S feat. Fabio
Drum and bass godfather @Womb
Tokyo Pinsalocks
Hallelujah Girls
Fuji Rock Festival ’12
Madchester and more
Mizuka Ueno
The leading ballerina says Japan’s fans are the best
U no Oyaji Ihin-ten
The postmortem exhibition of a secret lingerie collage collection
Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh:
Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits
Anime Contents Expo 2012
The anti-establishment anime armada
Arch Enemy
Hell hath no fury like Angela Gossow’s voice
One Piece
Manga creator Eiichiro Oda’s first one-man show
Rhythm Basics
Techno long-runner Phonica branches out
Harunobu, Kiyonaga, Utamaro
The works of three ukiyo-e masters
Arakoi
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2012 With a band [...]
Neil Landstrumm
The Scottish Scandinavian DJ talks techno
Hungry Like a Wolf
Hauling contemporary dance into the pop culture realm
Yokohama Art Department
A decidedly underground affair