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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 25, 2021
For Tracy Hyde balances idyllic nostalgia with political unease on ‘Ethernity’
Guitarist Azusa Suga based part of the sound for the Tokyo rock band's new album “Ethernity” on American suburbia and pop culture from the 1990s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 22, 2017
For Tracy Hyde polishes its indie aesthetics on 'Film Bleu'
For Tracy Hyde's "Film Bleu" presents an elegant way for an indie-pop band to exist in a different realm. The group has been around since 2012, started by guitarist Azusa Suga merging twee-ish rock with strokes of electronica.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 18, 2016
Underworld: 'We've become inseparable now, and it's really great'
Two years ago, Underworld duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith had an epiphany. After more than three decades of working together — through some unremittingly lean early years; an epoch-defining, mega-selling turn in the 1990s; soundtracking the London Olympics opening ceremony, and a fractured and increasingly separate recent past — the pair suddenly realized a convenient truth. In touring their groundbreaking 1994 album "Dubnobasswithmyheadman," a record that shifted the parameters of what was possible in dance music, the two men figured out that not only did they appreciate each other, they also liked each other.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 9, 2015
Rock group Vamps would go with Linkin Park, Madonna and Babymetal for their fantasy festival lineup
Motley Crue, Linkin Park, Judas Priest, Nine Inch Nails, Madonna and ... Babymetal. Given the chance to organize a music festival this summer these are the acts Vamps duo Hideto "Hyde" Takarai and Kazuhito "K.A.Z" Iwaike would select to perform. An eclectic mix, there are some choices you'd have expected from a visual-kei band, a couple of them, however, came as a bit of a surprise.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 12, 2013
Bill Murray relishes FDR's 'human' side
Biographical movies can be a daunting task. Their subjects often have larger-than-life stories that are focal points for controversy. Actor Bill Murray says that what attracted him to the role of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in "Hyde Park on Hudson," was less of the former element and a touch of the latter.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on