The All Tomorrow’s Parties concert series will come to Japan for the first time early next year. The “I’ll Be Your Mirror” event curated by ATP happens at Tokyo’s Studio Coast on February 27. Headlining will be recently reactivated gloom-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor. They’ll be joined on the bill by several noisy Japanese artists,…
Of all the venues in Osaka Los Angeles duo Kisses could have wound up in, they landed in the one most in contrast with their sound. The pair (joined by a drummer live) of Jesse Kivel (of Princeton) and Zinzi Edmundson craft tropically-tinged pop that flirts with late-night disco, the sonic equivalent of making a…
The Boom Boom Satellites live experience can best be summed up as “picture listening to ‘Born Slippy’ in a packed arena for two hours complete with woozy light show and overpriced beer.” If that sounds lame to you…well, stop reading right here, because that sounds like doing it right to me and ended up being…
The Summer Sonic Festival, now entering its second decade of existence, might very well be the most disconnected music festival in all of Japan. Whereas the Fuji Rock Festival stockpiles dozens of domestic bands to compliment the various foreign acts playing, Summer Sonic mostly relegates Japanese acts to “opening” slots before noon. It’s the “international”…
Seems most of Japan missed the film PCU, because most concerts feature tons of fans being “that guy” wearing a t-shirt from the band playing that night. It’s a weird flip-around, realizing you, the dweeb wearing another group’s swag, might actually constitute the minority. Self-consciousness doesn’t seem to exist at Japanese shows, replaced by real…