Japan Live

Very sadly, I missed advantage Lucy's 'one man' album-release show at the Que on the 24th, but the next night's gig at the ...

Spangle call Lilli line told me in an interview a few years ago that their next album will be something that challenges the listener and ex...

Commenter san told me about this Halcali video for their song "Girigiri Surf-Rider" and I thought it was the greatest thing and ...

Do the Japanese have a unique ability to enjoy the singing of autumn insects? It's something people say around this time of the year. I ...

The Daikanyama Unit was bad-mouthed in my Tokyo live house post , but having been there on Sunday I have to say it wasn't actually that...

Facing pounding rain as I headed out to see advantage Lucy and others, I remembered a line from the Lucy song “Smile Again”: “I realized th...

September is shaping up to be a bountiful harvest month for Japanese music. First off, there's a not-to-be-missed CD release party at th...

I was thinking of the health benefits of going to rock gigs as I watched Supersnazz play at the Red Cloth. Head-banging, pogo-hopping, arm-...

Who could have guessed it, watching these white-dressed dancing trio at an Apple Store in Osaka, that they would one day take over Japan? Wh...

After all these years it's still a trip to go to a live house and find, standing next to me, one of those musicians I've listened to...

(Photo credit: 4 Bonjour's Parties) How sadly fitting it was that on the last night of the final Formoz festival ever, a typhoon hit th...

Anyone heard of Go Chic ? I saw this 5-girl, Taiwanese disco-punk group at the Formoz Festival in Taipei, and was quite blown away. They...

You're going to a music show in Tokyo. You wonder what the venue is like. You've come to the right place. This post is about Tokyo...

Will Chara ever again write a song as good as “Time Machine”? Having casually followed her career in the years since the song came out, I ha...

I went to the Basement Bar see Texas Pandaa , whose latest album was one of my top-ten favorites of 2007 . The members of this band have a w...

I'm writing an essay for a band (more on that some other day), and have been doing research on the town of Asakusa as part of that effor...

Talkin' 'bout my ge-ne-ration... “Our generation sucks musically,” said Vasallo Crab 75's singer at this band's after-show ...

My interest in a band called Risette shot up when advantage Lucy's Aiko, performing before them, said Risette's vocalist was her fa...

Their long-awaited new work, the EP “Shiroi Asa” (White Morning), shows off advantage Lucy's musical range. The EP features a ballad, ...

I went to see Umekichi and was happy to discover that, for once, I was the youngest guy in the audience. I was also the only foreigner—thou...