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Category Archives: Music
Milva in Tokyo, 1998
The great Italian singer Milva died on April 23. For a while in the 90s and 00s she was an annual visitor to Japan, kind of like the Ventures of canzone, and I caught several of her concerts because Masako … Continue reading
The Merle file
Occasionally, I go through old published reviews of mine from the 90s and 00s and post them here. I came upon one that I did under the alias Merle Pangloss, a parody persona used for reviewing certain types of rock … Continue reading
Interview with Aidan Moffat, Dec. 2006
Arab Strap has reunited and released a new album. Here’s an interview I did with Aidan Moffatt on the occasion of their farewell tour. From the Japan Times. Pop artists tend to be identified by their musical stylings but some … Continue reading
Best albums 2020
For what it’s worth, the pandemic improved my capacity for listening to new music for reasons that are all too apparent, especially to people like me who tend to be rather compulsive about hearing everything that comes out. During past … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashley McBryde, Bab L'Buz, Billy Nomates, Chubby and the Gang, Dua Lipa, Ela Minus, Lewsberg, Run the Jewels, Sault, Tkay Maidza
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Eric Clapton, Budokan, Oct. 1997
Almost all of the music reviews I wrote for the Japan Times in the 90s and the movie reviews I wrote for the Asahi Shimbun during the same decade are not available on the Internet, so I will remedy that … Continue reading
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Adam Schlesinger
I was stunned this morning when I read that the Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger had died due to complications from COVID-19. I have written about the group and Schlesinger’s music a number of times over the past two decades. … Continue reading
Daniel Johnston 1961-2019
I did a telephone interview with Daniel Johnston for the Japan Times in 2003 to publicize his first-ever Japan concerts. The interview is still online and you can read it here.
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The Cramps 1998
In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death of Lux Interior, here is a review I wrote for the Japan Times of a Cramps concert that took place some time in 1998 at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Japan. The … Continue reading
Best Albums 2018
The album as a delivery device for music has been dying for more than a decade now, or, at least, that’s what the pundits say. What struck me more than anything about the way new music was presented this past … Continue reading
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Tagged Janelle Monáe, John Prine, Kacey Musgraves, Open Mike Eagle, Parquet Courts, Superchunk, Tierra Whack, Toni Braxton
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Aretha Franklin
I first heard Aretha Franklin when I was 11 years old, listening clandestinely to my small transistor radio tuned to WABC (or was it WMCA?), which was tucked under my pillow as I was supposed to be sleeping. Like my … Continue reading
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