The life Nobuki Akiyama has been living since moving to the greater New York City area in March sounds like a dream come true for any young musician.
"We wake up at around 11 or 12 and start listening to music," the lead singer and guitarist of the garage-rock-inspired outfit DYGL says. "After practicing, we hang out at night to see some other bands' shows."
Akiyama's decampment to New York isn't aspiring urbanite fantasy, though. He's splitting "an Airbnb-type place" in Jersey City, New Jersey, with five people — the other members of DYGL (pronounced Day-Glo) along with those in the other project he fronts, Ykiki Beat — to learn as much as he can from scenes beyond the one in his native Tokyo.