Nihongaku Radio Episode 67: Rolling Stone Missed This Japanese Music
Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums list is missing out on Japanese music.
Nihongaku Radio Episode 57: Five Year Mood Adjustment
Welcome back to Nihongaku Radio, a twice monthly exploration of Japanese (and other Asian) music for a primarily English-speaking audience.
Nihongaku Radio Episode 54: Kaja Kaja Goo
X Japan and Shonen Knife attack the U.S. with Japanese music. We’ll hear both in this episode along with The Pillows, Polysics and Chihiro Yamazaki.
Nihongaku Radio Episode 43: Happy Birthday, Mad Tiger
This episode starts with a band called Otoboke Beaver. Yeah! And then things just get better from there.
Nihongaku Radio: Best of 2012 Special
As it turns out, Mayan prophecies of our impending doom were greatly exaggerated. And it’s a good thing to. 2013 is already shaping up to be a big year for Japanese music. Boom Boom Satellites have a new album out … Read More »
The Pillows Frontman Sawao Yamanaka Releases “Answer” Music Video
“Answer” – Sawao Yamanaka Fans of The Pillows jonesing for a taste of new material got their fix today in the form of “Answer,” a new music video released in anticipation of frontman Yamanaka Sawao’s third solo album, Hakaiteki Innovation … Read More »
Nihongaku Radio Episode 25: Drop Your Urbangarde
Toiling in the dank and dark podcasting mines, it seriously did not so much as occur to me that I’ve been doing Nihongaku Radio for more than a year. Here we are, miraculously at episode 25. Call it a milestone. … Read More »