Examining gender (in)equality among four major music festivals in Japan 2019-08-172020-01-30 In February 2018, PRS Foundation launched a campaign named Keychange. By encouraging music festivals to achiev […]
People In The Box, Kodomo Rengou (2018) 2019-06-052020-01-30 Honestly, I had very little knowledge about People In The Box until their latest Kodomo Rengou, which was rele […]
江沼郁弥 (ENUMA Fumiya), #1 (2018) 2019-05-152020-01-30 Enuma Fumiya’s #1 is his first full-length as a solo singer-songwriter. After the break-up of plenty in […]
Tempalay, なんて素晴らしき世界 (Nante Subarashiki Sekai), 2018 2019-05-082020-01-30 When I found that RM (from BTS) was listening to Tempalay’s “どうしよう (dooshiyou)” I was very e […]
Shohei Amimori and the Bacteria Collective’s show was pretty awesome. why don’t you invite them to play? 2019-04-242020-01-30 Last week I was at Shibuya WWWX to see Shohei Amimori’s show called “パタミュージッキング (patamusicking) […]
Perfume, Future Pop (2018) 2019-04-172020-01-30 Since their breakthrough “ポリリズム (polyrhythm)” in 2007, Perfume has grown up from a “kawaii&# […]
Kid Fresino, ài qing (2018) 2019-04-102020-01-30 While Asian-American hip-hop collective 88rising’s making a viral sensation around the world and K-POP a […]
Maison book girl, yume, 2018. 2019-03-272020-01-30 In Japan, there has been a so-called “idol” scene for decades. Yes, you may know Perfume, BABYMETA […]
tofubeats, RUN, 2018 2019-03-202020-01-30 The 2010s was the decade of tofubeats. Some wouldn’t agree with me but this has been my honest feeling f […]
長谷川白紙 (Hakushi Hasegawa), 草木萌動 (So-moku Ho-do), 2018 2019-03-132020-01-30 There has been a so-called “netlabel” scene in Japan since the late 2000s as well as overseas. Mal […]
