Japan Live

I looked forward to, but also somewhat dreaded, Club Que's sold-out Hoover's Ooover and the Collectors two-band event, because a s...

As some of you may know, Japan Live has its own internet radio station called, creatively, Japan Live Radio . I've just been informed b...

This video by Sucrette is crazy cute... Who are these guys? It looks like they're based in Kyoto. I hope to see them one of these days,...

A domestic quarrel involving a kitchen knife might not seem very promising material for a great love song. But that's what “Rival Wa Ric...

By coincidence...or maybe not, maybe something drew me there...I was taking a walk along Aoyama Cemetery on Saturday, when I noticed a line ...

So Kiyoshiro Imawano has left us , only 58, to jam on a stage somewhere with Elvis, Lennon, Kyu Sakamoto... Kiyoshiro's band, RC Success...

Advantage Lucy played a couple of news songs at their Que show on Friday night, including a tune called “Teacup Ride”, and they had a jazzy...

My main mission of the evening attending a Shibuya event called Aburade-rabu (word play on 'abracadabra', I guess, but ending with J...

Soutaiseiriron , which means 'Theory of Relativity', is, in theory, a relatively promising band. But there's also something very...

I almost got lost for a second time in a row going to a cafe called Rain On The Roof in Sangenjyaya because, well, the place IS a challenge ...

I hadn't realized this until last night, but the pop band Round Table is a somewhat different entity from the group known as Round Tabl...

It's hard to beat the Lady Spade . They dance. They're babes. Their act is like something out of TV re-runs of 60's and 70's...

Three members of the splendid Tokyo band Vasallo Crab 75 have gotten together for a side-project called Kanariya , and they did their first...

Nostalgia for school days, a quest for more musical performance space, novelty, and Japan's shrinking population seem to be behind an in...

I'm wondering why I wasn't that impressed with Hoover's Ooover when I saw them live a few years ago. Writing about them in one ...

Lady Spade dance to 'sexy and cute spy music' . Lady Spade sing 'retro Japanese cabaret style' . Lady Spade put on 'dra...

At the Que on Sunday night, after a show by a mellifluous male singer Takamori Yuuki and the joke-loving power pop quartet Stainless , adva...

#10. Murmur The Afternoon of the Marble Design Japanese guitar pop is alive and well! That's the conclusion I reach when listening to th...