Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Albums of January 2021 Kicking off 2021 in great form, January was a particularly strong month for new Japanese…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Singles of January 2021 Starting off the year with a bang (for Haru Nemuri, quite literally) there were some…
Ed’s Picks: The 10 Best Japanese Albums of 2020 One of very few bonuses of having had almost an entire year lost to the…
A Complete Guide to 50 Years of Music in Tokyo (1970–2020) Over the course of the lifetime of the Tokyo Weekender so far, Tokyo has transformed…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Singles of November 2020 In the final month of ‘Ed’s Picks’ this year, November delivered plenty of last-gasp pitches…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Albums of November 2020 Pulling in to the year’s end, November saw some tremendous ambient and experimental pop releases…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Albums of October 2020 In the drowsy hustle of the post-summer slowdown, October saw some stellar autumnal picks but,…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Singles of October 2020 Between Ryohu’s feelgood, late-summer piano rap hit “The Moment” and Nishina’s pretty pop smash “Rendezvous”,…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Singles of September 2020 September was a month of exceptional Japanese electronic music. MicroM’s “Hotel Without a Name” diced…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Albums of September 2020 Aside from the highlights below, Mnst’s (the duo of Soichi Terada and Manabu Nagayama) collaborative…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Albums of August 2020 Coming out the other side of a stricter summer than usual, it seems that this…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Singles of August 2020 After a month of seemingly infinite album releases by Japanese musicians, accompanying them has been…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Singles of July 2020 Aside from my favorite Japanese songs of July listed below, worth mentioning are Awich’s furious…
Ed’s Picks: Top 5 Japanese Albums of July 2020 Spoilt for choice by the number of excellent releases in July, there is a Japanese album…
A Complete Guide to City Pop In bare terms, city pop was, like Shibuya-kei or kayokyoku, simply the name given to…
