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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; James Hadfield</title>
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		<title>Dommune takes a new direction with My Bloody Valentine gig</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[My Bloody Valentine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naohiro Ukawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Noise — vast, enveloping noise — is at the core of My Bloody Valentine&#8217;s music. Halfway through &#8220;You Made Me Realise,&#8221; the quartet lands on a single chord that proceeds to suck the entire song into a gawping, sense-scrambling maw of distortion. On the 1988 recorded version of the track, this &#8220;holocaust section&#8221; lasts for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dustin Wong&#8217;s loops reach an &#8216;Ecstatic&#8217; finale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mediation of Ecstatic Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Using just his six-string and a set of effect pedals, Tokyo-based guitarist Dustin Wong creates blissful symphonies of chirps and cascading arpeggios, shot through with searing leads and throbbing bass pulses. At times they recall the exuberant psychedelia of Animal Collective or the heady experiments of 1970s German synth innovators Manuel Göttsching and Cluster; at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Savages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ayse Hassan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bo Ningen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuji Rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuji Rock Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jehnny Beth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anyone you&#8217;re hoping to catch at the festival? Jehnny Beth (vocals): I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll have time. I mean, Bo Ningen at breakfast was amazing. (Laughs.) I just had Bo Ningen at breakfast, and that was the best breakfast I&#8217;ve ever had. Have you played with them before? JB: They invited me last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yo La Tengo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fuji Rock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ira Kaplan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James McNew]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They had you playing just after noon today. Do you find it&#8217;s hard to be switched on so early in the morning? Ira Kaplan (guitar, vocals): Well, luckily we&#8217;re so completely turned around: we&#8217;ve been on tour all month, working very hard, and then thrown into this. At this point, it could be any time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silence is a virtue for Tokyo&#8217;s Flau</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuushe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flau Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foundland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayuko Hitotsuyanagi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yasuhiko Fukuzono]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back when he still worked as a speech therapist and audiologist, Yasuhiko Fukuzono used to observe an interesting phenomenon. When deaf patients were fitted out with hearing aids for the first time, they complained that everything was just noise. &#8220;Even when they were at home, not doing anything, it was still noisy,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Producer Yosi Horikawa goes all natural on &#8216;Vapor&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[electronic music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Bull Music Academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yosi Horikawa&#8217;s beats burble, hiss, slosh and gurgle. On his debut full-length, &#8220;Vapor,&#8221; the 34-year-old producer may wield some identifiably hip-hop rhythms, but they&#8217;re tangled in a rich, intricately detailed tapestry of field recordings, sampled percussion, snatches of tribal chants and warm, guileless synthesizers. It&#8217;s the best thing you&#8217;ll hear all year that also bears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonar festival sounds out Japanese hopefuls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beatink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madegg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Bull Music Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sauce81]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiro Takatani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SonarSound]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two decades, it&#8217;s entertained, educated and &#8212; on more than a few occasions &#8212; polarized electronic music fans. As Barcelona&#8217;s Sonar festival enters its 20th year, it&#8217;s still as contrary as when it first started: an event with equal space in its heart for abstract electronica and the Pet Shop Boys, and whose lofty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist-curated festival sets new rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s Auschwitz with good music,&#8221; jokes Nick Cave at the start of &#8220;All Tomorrow&#8217;s Parties,&#8221; a 2009 documentary released to mark the 10th anniversary of the music festival of the same name. It&#8217;s a tasteless description for an impeccably tasteful event, one that has become a bastion for left-of-center music and set the template for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than words: Triune Gods&#8217; rap speaks volumes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, Masayuki Yoshimoto found himself rapping at a gig in a Vancouver basement. Few of the crowd had ever heard of MC Sibitt, as he likes to be known, and even fewer could understand anything he was saying, but they seemed to appreciate it all the same. Afterward, one question kept coming up: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kara &#8220;Girl&#8217;s Talk&#8221; ; 4Minute &#8220;Diamond&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of hand-wringing this year about South Korea threatening to overtake Japan in everything from international diplomacy to technology. In pop music, though, it&#8217;s already happened. The chart-topping success of now-defunct boy band TVXQ (known as Tohoshinki in Japan) was just a prelude for the current wave of Korean girl groups, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owen Pallett</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the tail end of last year, Canadian musician Owen Pallett issued a brief statement that he would be &#8220;voluntarily retiring&#8221; his stage name. For the previous five years, the songwriter and violin virtuoso had been producing ornate orchestral pop under the moniker Final Fantasy, a reference to the Japanese role-playing game series that had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard-knock life leads to magic music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye ditched their respectable jobs in France and headed to Kinshasa. In the ruined capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country just emerging from one of postcolonial Africa&#8217;s worst conflicts, they felt strangely at home. &#8220;We were like mad dogs in a mad city,&#8221; says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hippies and hipsters brave a soggy Fuji Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re talking about a music festival whose inaugural event was literally wiped out by a typhoon, it can feel a bit petty to complain about the weather. All the same, campers arriving at Fuji Rock Festival in Naeba on Thursday last week might have hoped for a warmer welcome than the torrential downpour that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Fuji &#8212; Dirty Projectors, Ozomatli, !!! and Yeasayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Longstreth, Dirty Projectors You mentioned during your show that it felt pretty early to be rocking out . . . Today it might have just been as simple as that we&#8217;re really jet-lagged, so it felt crazy to be doing that. To us it felt very early, but it was still a great show. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuji Rock Festival: Atoms For Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It sounded like a practical joke at first: Radiohead&#8217;s Thom Yorke starting a band with frat-funk bassist Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers? But after a string of successful dates in the United States, including California&#8217;s Coachella Festival, it&#8217;s clear that Atoms for Peace mean business &#8212; and know how to stir up one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Kung-Fu Generation &#8220;Magic Disk&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When The Japan Times asked a bunch of musicians last December to name the most influential Japanese artist from the past decade, Asian Kung-Fu Generation&#8217;s Masafumi Goto went for Shutoku Mukai. It was a telling, if not particularly surprising, choice. Goto and Co. were quick to pick up the baton from Mukai&#8217;s Number Girl after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DJ Yogurt &amp; Koyas: &#8220;Chill Out&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British dance duo The KLF birthed a monster with their 1990 album &#8220;Chill Out.&#8221; A 44-minute ambient collage that mixed snatches of the group&#8217;s own material with field recordings and samples of Elvis, throat singers and Fleetwood Mac, it would become the de facto comedown soundtrack for a generation of clubbers, spawning perhaps the least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shibusashirazu Orchestra set to sprawl</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Things got off to a memorable start at England&#8217;s Glastonbury Festival in 2002. Revelers were roused from their tents on the first morning to find the main Pyramid Stage overrun by a 40-strong Japanese big band, complete with costumed performance artists, butoh and go-go dancers. The late radio DJ John Peel, long the nation&#8217;s arbiter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomori &#8220;Utagoe no Minato&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would it be premature to hail this as the best early-Showa period album of 2010? Osaka duo Tomari&#8217;s debut album pays little heed to the stylistic advances of the past half-century, turning instead to the music of prewar Japan for inspiration. It&#8217;s a sound that the band describes as kakuu no kayou (literally, imaginary ballads), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warp Records hits the big 2-0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheffield has come on a long way over the past 20 years. England&#8217;s one-time &#8220;City of Steel&#8221; was, in the dying days of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s era, a pretty grim place to be, its factories shuttered and its high streets desolate. Today, it presents a cleaner, more affluent &#8212; and, some might say, less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running around the many stages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to get a sense of the sprawling possibilities at Fuji Rock, just look at Rafven&#8217;s schedule. The former street band from Gothenburg, Sweden, managed to play no less than nine times during the festival, bringing their exuberant brand of gypsy-style revelry to a string of different stages both in and outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dick El Demasiado</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick El Demasiado is, by his own admission, an impostor. Born Dick Verdult in the Netherlands in 1954, the musician and media artist has become a pivotal figure on Argentina&#8217;s experimental music scene thanks to an elaborate hoax. In 1996, he unveiled the Web site for Festicumex (Festival de Cumbias Experimentales), described as &#8220;an event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amami Total Solar Eclipse Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a promoter&#8217;s nightmare: an event which must be held in one of the most remote parts of the country, where the centerpiece occurs on a weekday morning, with no chance of rescheduling. Then again, when you&#8217;re talking about the longest total solar eclipse of the century, certain concessions must be made. Japan will enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheena Ringo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Sheena Ringo can be a frustrating business. Her third album, 2003&#8242;s &#8220;Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana&#8221; (&#8220;Lime, Semen, Chestnut Blossoms&#8221;), ranks as one of the most wildly ambitious pop records of the past decade, which made it all the more confounding when she ditched her solo career the following year to form the frighteningly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TsuShiMaMiRe &#8220;A, Umi da&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;re pretty stinky, aren&#8217;t you? Well, I&#8217;m gonna love you anyway,&#8221; sings TsuShiMaMiRe&#8217;s guitarist/vocalist Mari on &#8220;Mike Smell Kunkun.&#8221; It takes a brief moment to realize that she&#8217;s talking to her microphone, not some hygienically challenged boyfriend. &#8220;A, Umi da&#8221; (&#8220;Oh, It&#8217;s the Sea&#8221;) is the girl trio&#8217;s major label debut, and it&#8217;s been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brahman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You might expect a band named after the Sanskrit term for &#8220;absolute reality&#8221; to be a bit, well, pretentious. But if their moniker is evocative of patchouli, long beards and even longer guitar solos, Brahman&#8217;s music remains firmly grounded. The Tokyo-based quartet specialize in a no-nonsense blend of punk that draws on the best bits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ego-Wrappin&#8217; and The Gossip of Jaxx &#8220;Ego-Wrappin&#8217; and The Gossip of Jaxx&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ego-Wrappin&#8217; performed on Asahi TV&#8217;s &#8220;Music Station&#8221; show in July last year, singer Yoshie Nakano started their set by planting a kiss right on the camera lens, leaving a smudge of lipstick behind. It was the kind of insouciant gesture that the band do well: While their fusion of jazz, rock and Showa pop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ego-Wrappin&#8217; and The Gossip of Jaxx &#8220;Ego-Wrappin&#8217; and The Gossip of Jaxx&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Talking Teriyaki with J-hop&#8217;s biggest export</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While attending boarding school in Boston in the mid 1990s, Seiji Kameyama used to play hip-hop CDs that he&#8217;d brought back from Japan to his friends. &#8220;Back then, people used to laugh about it,&#8221; he recalls. &#8220;They&#8217;d be like, &#8216;What the heck is this, Japanese hip-hop?&#8217; &#8220; This year, the Japanese-American rapper, better known by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass of the Fermenting Dregs &#8220;World is Yours&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The release of Mass of the Fermenting Dregs&#8217; self-titled debut this time last year marked them out as a band to watch. The Kobe-based three-piece (known to fans as Masudore) betrayed a rare knack for melding pop sensibilities with the aural assault of the best postrock. The fact they are all girls didn&#8217;t hurt their [...]]]></description>
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