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Tokyo Gigs October 2025

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OCT 1 HAIHEN (ATSUSHI ARAKAWA/AKIO JEIMUS/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE) Bush Bash, Koiwa ¥2,500 OCT 1 SHIBUSASHIRAZU ORCHESTRA Pit Inn, Shinju...

Tokyo Gigs November 2025

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NOV 1 CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Club Quattro, Shibuya ¥8,000 NOV 1 TAKETERU KUDO/YASUAKI SHIMIZU/CARL STONE Za-Koenji Public Thea...

Tokyo Gigs December 2025

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DEC 1 SOCIETY SUCKERS, C-NETIK, WE ROB RAVE, &c. Heavy Sick Zero, Nakano ¥3,300 DEC 1-2 BETH GIBBONS Sumida Triphony Hall, Ki...

Tokyo Gigs January 2026

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JAN 4 PET SHOP BOYS, UNDERWORLD, KNEECAP, &c. Makuhari Messe, Chiba ¥19,500 JAN 6 PET SHOP BOYS Tokyo Garden Theater, Ariak...

Tokyo Gigs February 2026

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FEB 1 MEI SEMONES Duo Music Exchange, Shibuya ¥7,800 FEB 4 AUTECHRE Zepp Divercity, Odaiba ¥8,800 FEB 6 DOS MONOS, ODD FOOT...

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...

From the archives: Fishmans, 2019 Japan Times interview

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“We were ‘just doing it,’ but ‘just doing it’ takes real single-mindedness” Kin-ichi Motegi of Fishmans, 2019. Photo by James Hadfield In t...

From the archives: Keiji Haino, 2017 Japan Times interview

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“The difference is awareness” Photograph by Kazuyuki Funaki “I don’t want people to treat me like a god,” says Keiji Haino, chuckling. “I w...

New (and old) music from Japan – Winter 2023 edition

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Notable new Japanese releases and reissues By far the most time-consuming thing I wrote this year was a guide for Psyche about listening...