Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2012

Translating as “go round-and-round,” Guruguru Mawaru is an alternative music festival that launched a few years ago. Stages are set up around the concourses of Saitama Stadium—East Asia’s biggest—inviting punters to a musical merry-go-round. The latest edition hosts the likes of sharp-dressed funk machine Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro, electro rockers The Telephones and indie-folk polymath Shugo Tokumaru. The festival’s 15 stages also offer sentai live-action comedy, an art market and a 100 People Open Mic for all comers eager to strut their stuff.

Saitama Stadium, Sep 16 (listing).