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Elvis in Nakasu

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

So this year I went back to catch a night of the Nakasu Festival. The festival is held in Fukuoka’s red-light district, full of host and hostess clubs and worse. During the festival, women from the community get together and … Continue reading →

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Ongakuyōbi: NikaSaya

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

NikaSaya is a side project from the Tennis Coats’ singer, Saya, and songwriter Nikaido Kazumi. One Summerheim is a gorgeous rainy-day record. 

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On Lenin’s Feet and the Taxi-Driving Buddha

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

If you visit Kyoto, you may stumble into a small home next door to a shrine and, as you’re looking for the shrine entrance, a woman may ask you for 500 yen and assure you that there is English being … Continue reading →

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Ongakuyōbi: Broken Little Sister

Posted on October 1, 2011 by

I’ve dealt with a lot of bands from the 1990′s, so I wanted to shift gears into more recent Japanese bands. Broken Little Sister got started in Yokohama in 2005, mixing a kind of My Bloody Valentine wall-of-noise with shoegaze, … Continue reading →

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On Diving from a Malaysian Oil Rig

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

When I was a kid I dreamed about flying. It was always simple in dreams. I’d wake up with the euphoric feeling of having figured something out: The secret to flying was to jump, then repeat the jump while still … Continue reading →

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Notes From a Malaysian Road Trip

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Malaysia terrifies my mother.

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