Category: Music
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A pro (sometimes) basketball player that is funny, writes well, and has great taste in music?
I’ve enjoyed Paul Shirley’s blog entries written for ESPN, and now he has written a “Best albums of 2007” entry. This isn’t really something you would expect from a pro basketball player, but I think he’s got some real gems in that list. Color me impressed. I also highly recommend reading Paul Shirely’s stuff if […]
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The Enemy Concert in Ebisu’s Liquid Room
My girlfriend likes the the UK Band The Enemy, whom she saw at Summer Sonic (I was off seeing other bands at the time.) She picked up a pair of tickets to their show on Monday the 10th at Ebisu’s Liquid Room and we went together. I have their album “We’ll live and die in […]
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Catching up on Music
Lately I haven’t been listening to very much music. I’ve been busy with work, then last week I caught a cold and was sick all week. I still came into work, but left pretty early and slept a lot. I’m finally just about over that, but work has gotten busy again as I have to […]
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Summer Sonic 2007 Music Festival: Day 2
On the second day I woke up a big later since I didn’t have to go through the wrist-band exchange shuffle. An uneventful trip back to the Chiba area. “Blue Man Group” The first “group” I wanted to see was the Blue Man Group. They were up on the Mountain Stage, the largest of the […]
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Summer Sonic 2007 Tokyo Music Festival: Day 1
Welcome to Summer Sonic! Walking to Summer Sonic Marine Stadium Beach Stage Marine Stage Crowd Nishioka Sumiko (日本語版 ) Summer Sonic is a two-day summer music festival held in Chiba’s Makuhari Messe and nearby Marine Stadium. It is a huge event, with probably around 80 bands playing over two days, and unofficial concerts on the […]
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Japanese traditional music, and modern indie Punk
Things have been busy at work lately, so I haven’t been able to post much. Of course, since it has been busy there hasn’t been much going on for me to post about. Last week though, I did venture out for two music-related events. I posted up a blurb on my Japanese Mixi blog, but […]
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Fumie Hiratai’s closing party / Viola performance
A friend of mine, Fumie Hiratai (平体文枝), is an artist and recently had a show at a very interesting book shop, the Morioka Bookstore. It is a cute little book store in an art building (the Inoue Building in Kayabacho) that has a bunch of old photo books and other random art focused books. There […]
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Little Barrie and Big Strides in the Liquid Room, Ebisu, Japan
Last night I went to see Little Barrie (with a Japanese Fan Site too) and Big Strides at the Liquid Room in Ebisu. I really liked the Liquid Room. It reminded me a lot of the Mercury Lounge in NYC, a place where I’ve seen a lot of great shows. It was about the same […]
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Kaiser Chiefs
Thursday night Risa and I had tickets to see Kaiser Chiefs. The crowd was again very lively, and pretty packed. As with most of the concerts I’ve gone to in Japan, the crowd for English and American bands was 60% female, maybe a bit more. The keyboardist for the group, “Peanut”, really reminded me of […]
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Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo came to Tokyo, and I wasn’t going to miss that for anything. They’re touring in support of their new album, I m not afraid of you and I will beat your ass. I really like this album, and encourage you to pick it up. They played at Shibuya’s O-East, a fairly large […]