Category: Music

  • Shobus Diary

    Why should you be following the Shobus Diary? Momus explains: I’d like to draw your attention to a most extraordinary tour that’s going on in Japan right now, and being blogged in an excellent collective blog. Shobus Diary documents Shobo Shobo artists O.lamm, Domotic, Davide Balula, and Minifer’s “Shoboshobus / Mobium Japan Tour 2005”. (Ishida…

  • Summer Kiiiiiii

    Last chance to catch Kiiiiiii live for a while! From Neomarxisme: Kiiiiiii will be playing their last major concert of the summer (they’re going on hiatus until the Autumn release of their debut CD and DVD) this Monday, August 1st, at Shinjuku Red Cloth. Opening act: the two-drummer math-rock stylings of Clisms (pronounced: “Christmas”). Doors…

  • Radio OK Fred 07

    “Radio OK Fred 07” is now up, and you should see it pop up in your feed if you’ve subscribed to it. The is the first show that I’m not a part of, and it’s all my fault — I had to back out of our scheduled recording session at the last minute, and asked…

  • Mink Engine at the Nakaochiai Gallery

    The Nakaochiai Gallery is trying something a bit different on Friday — hosting a musical performance! Nakaochiai Gallery presents: Mink Engine LIVE on the last show for their summer tour. Friday July 29, 7pm – 10pm entrance is FREE This Friday MINK ENGINE will play the last show of their summer tour of Europe, UK…

  • Apple iTunes Music Store — At Last?

    Macworld is reporting that invitations have been sent by Apple Japan to select journalists for a special music-related event to be held at 10am on August 4 at the Tokyo International Forum. Apple iTunes Music Store, anyone?

  • Christmas Illusion 2

    No, it’s not Christmas, but the following event sounds damn cool, and it’s a shame that I’m now entering crunch-time for a bunch of projects from now until I leave for my holidays to Canada (and NYC) at the end of the month. I’ll let Cat Jam‘s Channing explain it: Cat Jams Label release JAM-013…

  • Lounge Designers Killer

    I sort of have a love-hate thing going with the band Capsule. In a way, it feels like just a retread of what I was listening to back in the nineties (the club pop stuff), but at the same time, it’s fun and catchy, and plays well on your iPod in the Summer when you’re…

  • TuneTalk

    Glad I waited a bit for that iPod voice recorder — Belkin just announced the TuneTalk, which looks perfect (and is priced nicely). As far as that podcast idea I was having, I think it’s branching out into two different things. I think I’d like to have one that would be just raves/rants from the…

  • The Party That Was

    Patrick writes-up the Aprils release party that took place this past Saturday at Shibuya O-Nest.

  • The Vice Party

    Patrick went to the 1st anniversary party for the invisible Japanese edition of VICE, and does a write-up.