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Shugo Tokumaru sprung onto the pop music scene in 2004 with the critically-acclaimed yet unfortunately under-exposed Night Piece LP (Music Related). R...

08/21/08 - 0 comments

One of the world's greatest sound experimentalists, Keigo Oyamada, a.k.a. Cornelius, is releasing his superb 2007 LP, Sensuous, in 5.1 surround sound ...

08/07/08 - 0 comments

Reading a Haruki Murakami book is like reading something from a god. The characters, however flawed, always manage to save the day (or at least figure...

07/29/08 - 0 comments

Graniph has a pretty simple yet ingenious business plan. Every month, the Tokyo-based T-shirt company releases and sells thirty or so unique, limited-...

07/04/08 - 0 comments

The great Escalator Records of Tokyo, Japan, recently created an imprint label, Every Conversation, specifically for releasing Western music. Escalato...

06/30/08 - 0 comments

Guerrilla gardening in densely-populated cities seems to be a hip new way to fight urbanization and sprawling growth. It's prettier than getting a bun...

06/26/08 - 0 comments

Micke Thorsby, a.k.a. PMKFA is one interesting dude. The Stockholm, Sweden born, raised, and educated graphic designer has been based out of Tokyo sin...

06/23/08 - 0 comments

We all know that CDs in Japan cost five, ten, fifteen dollars more than U.S. discs, but the Japanese music distributors and record labels attempt to m...

06/03/08 - 0 comments

Japan's Escalator Records has long been the beacon of hope for the nation's fledgling underground music scene. The label signed Tokyo indie-pop giants...

03/24/08 - 0 comments

How did Graniph start and when? What was the catalyst for its creation? In the late-90s, three graphic designers started to print T-shirts... they ...

02/28/08 - 0 comments