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Most young photographers―no, make that photographers in general―haven't experienced the sheer drama that Patrick Tsai, a California-born Taiwanese...

10/13/08 - 0 comments

Japan's renowned, respected, and popularly hailed electronic group of the 1970s and 1980s, Yellow Magic Orchestra, has sort of gotten back together wi...

09/15/08 - 0 comments

One of the greatest investigators of Japanese culture—both above and underground—PingMag, recently looked into the bizarre world of pachinko parlo...

09/12/08 - 0 comments

Escalator Records—Tokyo, Japan's most consistently exciting, fresh, and vital indie label—has been pumping out some of the best Nipponese sounds s...

09/11/08 - 0 comments

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

Los Angeles, August 8: Assembling any number of percussionists for a drum circle is no small task; somehow it always has the whiff of goofiness about ...

08/11/08 - 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

Did you miss Boredoms’ 77-drummer extravaganza last year in Brooklyn? Perhaps you were left outside the funzone due to mile-long lines and every-sin...

08/06/08 - 0 comments

1960s Japan was a tumultuous era of revolution in which the dramatically separated left and right viciously and violently came head-to-head for a batt...

08/01/08 - 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