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Tokyo Gigs August 2025

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AUG 1 KOJI OHTA/BONSTAR Bar Isshee, Sendagi ¥500 + tip AUG 1 LOLOET, MASHIRO TOBITA, SAYAKA BOTANIC, PEREIRA Bush Bash, Koiwa ¥...

Tokyo Gigs September 2025

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SEP 1 EIICHI HAYASHI/YUICHI USHIDA/KEIGO IWAMI/MASAKI NAGATA Chitei, Otsuka ¥3,000 SEP 1 YOAKE NO CHINDONYA, GAETAN NONCHALANT, ...

Tokyo Gigs October 2025

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OCT 3 LANG LEE/HYEJI LEE Gloria Chapel, Shinagawa ¥6,000 OCT 3 MIZUKI AITA PERCUSSION RECITAL Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall, U...

Tokyo Gigs November 2025

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NOV 1 CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Club Quattro, Shibuya ¥8,000 NOV 2 HIROKO YAMAMURA Club Quattro, Shibuya ¥5,500 NOV 5 PARLO...

Tokyo Gigs December 2025

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DEC 1-2 BETH GIBBONS Sumida Triphony Hall, Kinshicho ¥11,000-¥16,000 DEC 3 SOCCER MOMMY Liquidroom, Ebisu ¥7,000 DEC 8 DELT...

Tokyo Gigs January 2026

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JAN 22 MEN I TRUST, MEI SEMONES Tokyo Garden Theater, Ariake ¥9,800/¥11,000 JAN 23 MEI SEMONES Duo Music Exchange, Shibuya ¥7,80...

Tokyo Gigs February 2026

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FEB 4 AUTECHRE Zepp Divercity, Odaiba ¥8,800 FEB 9 MY BLOODY VALENTINE Tokyo Garden Theater, Ariake ¥18,000/¥20,000 FEB 18 ...

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...