Jean Snow [.net]

Category: Music

  • Kegawazoku

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    This sounds like it could get me interested in musicals. Another explosion of Kegawa leader Emoto Junko’s charisma! The unique blend of gorgeous show elements and excessive expressions of eros and violence has won Kegawazoku a huge number of fans ranging from would-be actresses to lecherous daddies. Their fourth year of activity marks the troupe’s…

  • Kathy

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in

    I’d never heard of Kathy before, but they sure do sound interesting. Here’s a bit from Ozaki Tetsuya’s latest OUT OF TOKYO column, where he talks about the Kathy performance at the recent Arto Lindsay show. For those unfamiliar with Kathy I’ll introduce them briefly. The three girls that make up the performance group all…

  • I Refuse to Die

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Momus has been doing some high-density blogging of late, and a recent entry takes a look at some Japanese-related cultural artifacts that you should be aware of — and it reminds me that I really need to write a MoCo Tokyo entry on Atelier Bow Wow. You should also download “I Refuse to Die,” and…

  • Midori Featured at Mperia

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in

    Hirano Midori is a featured artist right now at the Mperia site, and you can read a short interview with her. You can find, listen, and buy some of her tracks here.

  • An Interview with Puffy

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in

    Nicholas D. Kent sends me news that he’s just posted online an interview he did with the group Puffy back in 2002. Done to provide quotes for a magazine article, it wasn’t originally planned as a published interview. While on the subject of Puffy, I know that they’ve recently developed a following in America with…

  • Kiiiiiii at Komaba

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Tomorrow (Sunday) is the big school festival on the Komaba campus of Tokyo University, and Kiiiiiii will be performing, along with Spank Happy (Halcali was supposed to perform also, but they pulled out). Kiiiiiii will hit the stage from 3:50 to 4:20. The show is free (or something like a donations welcome kind of thing).

  • iTunes Japan

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Well, it’s about time we got some solid info on a release date for the Japanese iTunes store. Apple plans to open up its iTunes Music Store to Japanese customers by March 2005, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported on Thursday. The paper said that Apple aimed to offer more than 100,000 songs with an emphasis…

  • Jon the dog

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Reading the following entry on Jon the dog at REALTOKYO reminded me of the first time I heard about this artist, from a show Patrick had attended (I think it was with Emi Necozawa). Jon the dog is actually a girl, but how she wears her dog’s costume and sings absurd lo-fi folk pop songs…

  • Let It Poko

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Indie rock in Tokyo! While RT tends to focus on cutting-edge forms of electronic music, sound art or genre-crossing efforts in jazz, once in a while the domestic indie rock scene deserves attention too. Although I haven’t seen any of the bands featured at this event playing live yet, the fresh sound at least of…

  • Arto Lindsay Tour

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Arto Lindsay is touring Japan! The cliche of the artist who “destroys the preestablished harmony” is probably the most boring thing a writer can come up with these days, but in the case of Arto Lindsay one doesn’t have to care about how to avoid falling back on the same old formula again, as his…