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Tokyo Gigs June 2026

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JUN 1 SHIBUSASHIRAZU ORCHESTRA Pit Inn, Shinjuku ¥4,400 JUN 1 NATIHO TOYOTA/TATSUHISA YAMAMOTO Polaris, Minami-Aoyama ¥3,500 ...

Tokyo Gigs July 2026

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JUL 1 STEREOLAB Kanda Square Hall ¥9,800 JUL 1 JOYCE MORENO Blue Note Tokyo, Minami-Aoyama ¥9,500 JUL 1 M/LUE. (BAND ...

Tokyo Gigs August 2026

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AUG 4-8 MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA Blue Note Tokyo, Minami-Aoyama ¥14,000 AUG 6 JOY HEIGHTS (TATSUYA NAKAMURA/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/T...

Tokyo Gigs September 2026

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SEP 2 RACING MOUNT PLEASANT Unit, Daikanyama ¥7,500 SEP 3-4 THE ROOTS Billboard Live, Roppongi ¥17,900-¥22,000 SEP 5 KUNIKO...

Tokyo Gigs October 2026

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OCT 1 CAROLINE, MY NEW BAND BELIEVE Spotify O-East, Shibuya ¥10,000 OCT 8 TORU TAKEMITSU: BEYOND THE CENTENARY VOL. 1 Tokyo Opera...

Tokyo Gigs November 2026

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NOV 4 THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA WWW X, Shibuya ¥22,000 NOV 9 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Toyosu Pit ¥11,000 NOV 23 WOLF ALICE ...

New (and old) music from Japan – 2025 addendum

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A few more notable releases from the year gone by While I didn’t feel much appetite for putting together a 2025 albums of the year list ...

New (and old) music from Japan – Winter 2025 edition

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Notable releases I’ve finally got around to writing about We’re deep into Album of the Year review season – The Wire and The Quietus b...

New (and old) music from Japan – Spring 2025 edition

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Notable new Japanese releases and reissues This might be a return to regular programming, but no promises. Things have been quiet on the...

Notable Japanese releases from 2024

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Good music from a (mostly) bad year I fell out of the habit of posting album reviews during 2024, partly because I simply wasn’t listeni...

From the archives: Ichiko Aoba, 2016 Japan Times interview

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“I get most of my energy for creating stories from dreams.” Ichiko Aoba, 2016. Photo by James Hadfield Ichiko Aoba takes her seat at an old...