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SONARSOUND

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 4, 2013
Sonar festival sounds out Japanese hopefuls
For two decades, it's entertained, educated and — on more than a few occasions — polarized electronic music fans. As Barcelona's Sonar festival enters its 20th year, it'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 subtitle — International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art — doesn't preclude it from booking Deadmau5 and Skrillex.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 4, 2013
Nicolas Jaar: My job is to make music that hasn't been heard
Nicolas Jaar, the precociously talented American-Chilean underground electronic artist, makes music that defies conventional description. Of course, that is exactly what the 23-year-old Ivy League graduate aspires to. "For me, it would be boring if you could say to me 'you make this type of music'. I would feel like I'm not doing my job. My job is to, and this is my own goal, without an audience in mind, try to make a type of music that hasn't been heard before. Obviously, that is the hardest thing in the world. I'm not saying I do that, I don't think that I do. But I try really hard to do that."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 28, 2013
April: Karl Hyde to headline SonarSound
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.
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Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
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