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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Patrick ST. Michel</title>
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		<title>Nite Jewel&#8217;s new best-of album, &#8216;Gems,&#8217; celebrates a diverse catalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nite Jewel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramona Gonzalez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A best-of album is not what you&#8217;d expect from an artist who has been around for five years. But that&#8217;s exactly what Ramona Gonzalez, who records under the moniker Nite Jewel, released in advance of her upcoming Japanese tour. &#8220;I sat down and thought about which songs fully represent all aspects of my career and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock God Dam&#8217;s teen mastermind: Eighteen-year-old student pulls off two-day music festival for charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blackmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[live house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nakako Isoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rock God Dam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Runnings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With 90 minutes to go before the start of the Rock God Dam music festival, organizer Nakako Isoo is trying to find one of the headlining acts. She&#8217;s supposed to pick up Virginia band Suburban Living, but comes back to Shibuya club Vuenos alone. &#8220;They are going shopping,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I will try one more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maximum The Hormone &#8220;Yoshu Fukushu&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maximum the Hormone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoshu Fukushu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maximum The Hormone&#8217;s sixth album, &#8220;Yoshu Fukushu,&#8221; proves its members know how to laugh at themselves. The four-piece have long been slapped with the &#8220;hardcore&#8221; and &#8220;nu-metal&#8221; tags, putting the band in the company of other such acts like Limp Bizkit and Korn, who aren&#8217;t known for self-awareness. Yet Maximum The Hormone know to wink [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various artists &#8220;Tanukineiri Drink Sampler&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[free download]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tanukineiri Drink Sampler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanukineiri Records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting harder to listen to netlabel-released albums in one sitting recently. Electronic-music compilation series &#8220;Fogpak&#8221; recently put out a collection featuring 48 different artists (should we call the Guinness people?). Now Tanukineiri Records has popped out &#8220;Tanukineiri Drink Sampler&#8221; — 90 minutes and 30 tracks strong. The album also highlights the negatives and positives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spreading the word through manga</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/21/arts/spreading-the-word-through-manga/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=spreading-the-word-through-manga</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MoT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of Contemporary Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osamu Tezuka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shotaro Ishinomori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Videos of anime conventions in America greet visitors to Tokyo&#8217;s Museum of Contemporary Art at this summer&#8217;s &#8220;The Power of Manga — Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori&#8221; exhibition. Looped footage of attendants in cosplay at the Los Angeles Anime Expo and other similar events play, while a &#8220;prologue&#8221; banner nearby declares in Japanese and English, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard rock, J-pop rule Summer Sonic</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/14/music/hard-rock-j-pop-rule-summer-sonic/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hard-rock-j-pop-rule-summer-sonic</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BabyMet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carly Rae Jepsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chvrches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fidlar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hatsune Miku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Marr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metallica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr. Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perfume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pet Shop Boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sakanaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smashing Pumpkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Roses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer Sonic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran Japanese rockers Mr. Children attracted so many fans to this year&#8217;s edition of the Summer Sonic music festival that they made Smashing Pumpkins&#8217; frontman Billy Corgan upset. &#8220;Thank-you for the warm reception,&#8221; he said sarcastically in Osaka on Saturday, in response to the legions of Mr. Children fans who crowded the area just ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Namie Amuro &#8220;Feel&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Namie Amuro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The age of the J-pop diva has long passed, those halcyon days of Whitney Houston-inspired vocals and million-unit-moving singles. The female entertainers from this period have recently coped by embracing American trends. Kumi Koda struck Oricon Single Chart gold last year with &#8220;Go To the Top,&#8221; which featured elements of contemporary stateside electronic dance music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smany &#8220;komoriuta&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bunka-kei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bunka-kei Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[komoriuta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[netlabel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smany]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Netlabel culture in Japan &#8212; referring to Web-only music labels that distribute tunes online, usually for free &#8212; has been around long enough to develop its own set of minor celebrities and &#8220;star&#8221; imprints. Bunkai-Kei has become one of the most popular of these Internet institutions, and its latest release from the artist Smany finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DJ Miso Shiru and MC Gohan raps and roasts on &#8216;Mother&#8217;s Food&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/17/music/dj-miso-shiru-and-mc-gohan-raps-and-roasts-on-mothers-food/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dj-miso-shiru-and-mc-gohan-raps-and-roasts-on-mothers-food</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DJ Miso Shiru and MC Gohan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hip-hop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A gig doesn&#8217;t double as dinner, but at DJ Miso Shiru and MC Gohan&#8217;s shows there&#8217;s a good chance food will be involved. Besides a hip-hop set, the audience can sometimes participate in cooking demonstrations. &#8220;At one show, I sang about manju (a Japanese sweet) and afterward the crowd started making manju. Then I performed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyary Pamyu Pamyu &#8220;Nanda Collection&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[J-pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyary Pamyu Pamyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nanda Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yasutaka Nakata]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Am I an adult? Or am I a kid?&#8221; sings Kyary Pamyu Pamyu on &#8220;Furisodation,&#8221; a song about the Harajuku blogger-turned-model-turned-pop-star turning 20 earlier this year. That&#8217;s the question that looms over all of her sophomore album, &#8220;Nanda Collection.&#8221; The album is obsessed with the messy transition from youth to adulthood, the sound of Kyary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Beach &#8220;Lover Lover&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dai Ogasawara]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slow Beach is somewhat of a supergroup in Tokyo&#8217;s indie-rock scene. The group finds Dai Ogasawara, founder of twee-leaning netlabel Ano(t)raks, hooking up with producer Kai Takahashi, who is responsible for some of the most interesting electronic compositions of the year, including a chilled-out remix of Phoenix&#8217;s &#8220;Entertainment.&#8221; They have teamed up with Yuriko Ohno [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homecomings&#8217; harmonies help them stand out in a twee herd</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/03/music/homecomings-harmonies-help-them-stand-out-in-a-twee-herd/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=homecomings-harmonies-help-them-stand-out-in-a-twee-herd</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homecomings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second Royal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All a university really needs to get its students to come out to an event is the promise of free food. However, Kyoto Seika University enlisted four students from the school&#8217;s folk-music club to entice a crowd to a welcome party in April 2012, which ended up being the debut gig for Homecomings. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>miwa &#8220;Delight&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/20/music/miwa-delight/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=miwa-delight</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miwa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of miwa&#8217;s first two releases, &#8220;Guitarissimo&#8221; and &#8220;Guitarium,&#8221; seemingly announced her musical niche. Those top-selling albums (her debut made her the first Japanese performer born in the 1990s to take the Oricon album chart&#8217;s top spot) revolved around guitar, in the form of frantic rock numbers and slow ballads. Her early work featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May.e &#8220;Mattiola&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/20/music/may-e-mattiola/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=may-e-mattiola</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[download]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of people have uploaded videos of themselves to YouTube playing acoustic covers of well-known songs. Armed with a guitar, a voice and dreams of viral stardom, the covers tackle everything from contemporary pop to hip-hop, and more often than not are done with an ironic nod to the viewer. On the other side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guitarist Dustin Wong brings singer Takako Minekawa out on a &#8216;Toropical&#8217; journey</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/23/music/guitarist-dustin-wong-brings-singer-takako-minekawa-out-on-a-toropical-journey/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=guitarist-dustin-wong-brings-singer-takako-minekawa-out-on-a-toropical-journey</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dustin Wong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ponytail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takako Minekawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toropical Circle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It&#8217;s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in front of him. The flurry of interlocking sounds he&#8217;s produced at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noah × Sela &#8220;Split EP&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cd review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of its six-year existence, Flau Records has carved out an identity as a record label offering intimate music. The actual sonic styles of the artists represented by the acts signed to the border-hopping imprint differ &#8212; some make proper songs, some just produce beats, and sometimes there will be a blend of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kis-My-Ft2 &#8220;Good Ikuze!&#8221; (Avex Trax)</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/18/music/kis-my-ft2-good-ikuze-avex-trax/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kis-my-ft2-good-ikuze-avex-trax</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/18/music/kis-my-ft2-good-ikuze-avex-trax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[boy band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ikuze!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J-pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kis-MyFt2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Odds are, Japan Times reader, that you do not like Kis-My-Ft2. Maybe you&#8217;ve been unable to escape the bleating &#8220;Wanna Beeee!!!&#8221; while out strolling in Shibuya, or maybe they lost you at, &#8220;From the people who brought you SMAP and Arashi!&#8221; So this review should be quick, right? A nice hatchet job with a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i-fls &#8220;Diary of Spectre&#8221; (self-release)</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/18/music/i-fls-diary-of-spectre-self-release/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=i-fls-diary-of-spectre-self-release</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bandcamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bedroom producer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary of Spectre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[i-fls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first song I ever made &#8212; and I&#8217;m willing to wager many who graduated high school in the mid 2000s share this experience &#8212; was using Apple&#8217;s GarageBand, a software application that lets people make music on their computers. &#8220;I made a killer techno track last night, dude,&#8221; I overheard one classmate say, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April: Karl Hyde to headline SonarSound</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/28/music/april/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=april</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SonarSound]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The next month features a great mix of concerts for all sorts of live-music fans. Several long-running bands visit Japan in April, as do some of the most hyped-up young outfits in the world today. Whether you like apocalyptic postrock or Swedish indie rock, the next 30 days have you covered. Anyone excited for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan needs to rebrand for SXSW</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/21/music/japan-needs-to-rebrand-for-sxsw/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japan-needs-to-rebrand-for-sxsw</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of the South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, is for musicians to woo new fans and industry insiders. The five-day festival, though, hasn&#8217;t been about bands for a while &#8212; it&#8217;s about brands. Companies jockey for consumer attention via concerts featuring hyped-up acts with plenty of advertising opportunities. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various Artists &#8220;Upwards and Onwards&#8221; (Ano(t)raks)</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/21/music/various-artists-upwards-and-onwards-anotraks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=various-artists-upwards-and-onwards-anotraks</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[album]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ano(t)raks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jam The Mod]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paellas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fledgling online-only label Ano(t)raks takes a somewhat needless risk with their second compilation album, &#8220;Upwards and Onwards.&#8221; Founded late last year, Ano(t)raks highlighted bedroom-made indie-pop, a style defined by simple guitar playing and equally basic lyrics about love. Indie-pop has been going strong since the 1980s &#8230; and has barely evolved sonically since then. Nobody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NMB48 &#8220;Teppen Totande!&#8221; (Laugh Out Loud Records)</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/21/music/nmb48-teppen-totande-laugh-out-loud-records/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nmb48-teppen-totande-laugh-out-loud-records</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[idol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NMB48]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teppen Totande!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular hemming and hawing, the big problem with Oricon chart-dominating act AKB48 isn&#8217;t their music. Their discography certainly contains misfires, but producer Yasushi Akimoto and company can pen great material for the dozens-strong group. Last year, they boasted two of the best songs in all of Japan: &#8220;Sugar Rush,&#8221; one of the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s no battering the Tempura Kidz spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/07/music/theres-no-battering-the-tempura-kidz-spirit/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=theres-no-battering-the-tempura-kidz-spirit</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asobi System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J-pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tempura Kidz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The members of Tempura Kidz have danced in front of thousands of strangers at sold-out venues across Japan, including Tokyo's famed Budokan and the Summer Sonic festival. Yet on a Thursday night in a Harajuku office building, the teenage quintet is nervous.]]></description>
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		<title>Ram Rider to take his energetic electronic music and glow-in-the-dark antics to Los Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/07/music/ram-rider-to-take-his-energetic-electronic-music-and-glow-in-the-dark-antics-to-los-angeles/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ram-rider-to-take-his-energetic-electronic-music-and-glow-in-the-dark-antics-to-los-angeles</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Music producer Ram Rider&#8217;s first encounter with any sort of computer came when, during the 1980s his parents bought something called an MSX while he was in elementary school. He would plug the early home computer into a TV and fiddle around with the various programs. That&#8217;s how he got into making his own songs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March: Grimes, Andy Stott head east and west</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/02/28/music/march/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=march</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andy Stott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gang of Four]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grizzly Bear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Cliff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Punkspring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Springroove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Beach Boys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[March means the (eventual) return of nice weather, so you no longer have to bundle up or stay indoors cursing the cold world beyond your apartment. And as the climate warms up, for those in need of more incentive to venture outside, there are several great gigs going down across the country. The month starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Beaches draws from Serbian film on new album</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/02/07/music/dirty-beaches-draws-from-serbian-film-on-new-album/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dirty-beaches-draws-from-serbian-film-on-new-album</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dirty Beaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lo-fi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Zhang Hungtai is constantly in motion. The Taiwanese-born artist, who performs under the name Dirty Beaches, has said in interviews the idea of &#8220;home&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean much to him. He&#8217;s lived in Taipei, Honolulu, Shanghai and Montreal, and is an avid traveler on top of that. This feeling of always being on the move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February: My Bloody Valentine returns</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/01/31/music/february-live/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=february-live</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/01/31/music/february-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[concert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[live]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[January featured a ton of great concerts across Japan, but February might be even better &#8212; hope your wallet isn&#8217;t too thin this month. One of Tokyo&#8217;s best shows this month also happens to be one you should get on right away. Apocalyptic rockers Swans come to the capital for one show on Feb. 19 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Mr. Children 2005-2010 &lt;macro&gt;”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Japan Times colleague Ian Martin nailed the state of Japanese pop music when he wrote that it was &#8220;clinging on to the hoary old remains of the past.&#8221; The Oricon Chart&#8217;s top albums of 2012 list was dominated by &#8220;Best Of&#8221; compilations, with the top two spots going to a pair released by rock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortcake Collage Tape &#8220;Spirited Summer&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/01/23/music/shortcake-collage-tape-spirited-summer/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=shortcake-collage-tape-spirited-summer</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canata Records]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating music meant to purposely evoke the past can be tricky. Recreate the sounds of a specific decade too closely and the music becomes too nostalgic, pining for a time the artist never even knew existed. On the other hand, approach bygone times too cynically &#8212; as the Internet-born microgenre &#8220;vaporwave&#8221; does by perverting old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Girls&#8217; Style to perform first solo gig at legendary Budokan, but first — homework</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/12/20/music/tokyo-girls-style-to-perform-first-solo-gig-at-legendary-budokan-but-first-homework/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-girls-style-to-perform-first-solo-gig-at-legendary-budokan-but-first-homework</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The members of Tokyo Girls&#8217; Style have a lot to juggle in the next couple of months. This Saturday, the five-member pop group will perform a solo show at Japan&#8217;s storied Budokan arena — a huge milestone for any musical outfit here. About a month later, their third album &#8220;Yakusoku&#8221; (&#8220;Promise&#8221;) will hit stores. On [...]]]></description>
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