“I Believe Your Heart Can Be Your Home”: Finding Harmony with Sugizo Being in the presence of a rock god — even with strict social distancing measures…
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…
Do-It-Yourself Duo Santa Dharma: the Power of Meditation, Nostalgia and Experimental Pop The Start They met in a hazy, tightly squeezed hookah bar in Shimokitazawa, a Tokyo…
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…
Singer May J. Starts the New Year on a High Note May J., a Tokyo-born multicultural singer with her roots in Japan, Iran, Turkey, Russia, U.K.,…
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…
Spanish DJ Regal Releases New Metalcore Remix of Crossfaith Regal, alias of Italo-Spanish DJ and techno artist Gabriel Cassina, describes DJing as a script,…
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”,…
The latest album from Roth Bart Baron brings indie folk to the modern era “Keep breathing, don’t stop and fill your little lungs,” sings Masaya Mifune, singer and songwriter for…
Josiah Hawley: 10 Songs that Changed My Life Josiah Hawley wears cowboy boots when walking the streets of Nakameguro. He listens to gospel…
TW Live House Halloween Special: Our musical friends get freaky Halloween is our favorite holiday in Japan (with Respect the Elderly Day a close second)…
