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  • Let It Poko

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    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…

  • Roppongi Hills Monopoly

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    I saw a blurb on this Murakami Takashi designed Roppongi Hills version of Monopoly about a month ago (at the time of the Monopoly World Championships) in TOKYO WALKER, and here comes METROPOLIS with the following info: Every four years—just like the Olympics—40 players from around the world gather to battle it out over a…

  • Gotta Go

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    Momus has the right idea. For those of you thinking of leaving America today — and there are many, I’m sure — I’d say just do it. Walk away. Leaving Britain is the best thing I ever did. I lived for years there feeling like a political and cultural exile, trying to fight back with…

  • Arto Lindsay Tour

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    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…

  • Port Launch Party

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    Electronic artist evala launches his new music label, Port, at the Ginza Apple Store. Known primarily in Osaka as the organizer of the “Port” series of electronic music sessions hosted by Osaka City in 2002 and 2003, artist evala has launched a new label with the same name as his events. The first item in…

  • SOUND X VISION Set

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    The “SOUND X VISION 2004” exhibition is currently touring a few cities before arriving in Tokyo in December, and REALTOKYO mentions the official CD/DVD package that has been out for at least a month now. The “SOUND X VISION 2004” sound/visual exhibition is currently traveling Osaka, Sendai, Yamaguchi and Tokyo. A look at director Hariya…

  • Resonate at Bullet's

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    Just a reminder that tonight is the RESONATE event at Bullet’s, that will include a performance by Glam Tool, featuring good friend Hirano Midori. Glam Tool opens the show at 5.

  • Metropolis 553

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    This week’s issue of city guide METROPOLIS has quite a few interesting articles in it, which I’ll rundown in one post instead of multiple entries. After a week, look in their sidebar archives for issue 553. The cover feature is a short story — “Watercolors,” taken from his DARK WATER collection — by RINGU author…

  • Late-Night TV Anime on the Rise

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    A DAILY YOMIURI article takes a look at the growing popularity (and expanding number) of late-night TV animated shows. The number of such shows in late-night slots increased to 17 this season from 10 last autumn. Many of these shows are produced with viewers in their 20s and 30s in mind as producers hope to…

  • Paper Sky 11

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    Just picked up the new issue of PAPER SKY (11), featuring a cover story on Shanghai. The city really seems to be getting a lot of coverage of late, like TIME’s recent cover story proclaiming it to be the new “it” city in Asia. It’s definitely up there as one of the cities I want…