Nakagin Capsule Tower exhibition at MOMA featuring one of the few surviving (and restored) capsules

I’d forgotten about this wonderfully psychedelic tune by Yura Yura Teikoku youtu.be/8i4UFLZpTvo?...

The moment you’re watching Fujii Rock from your Brooklyn apartment and realize you know the guy from years past and he used to rock a huge orange mohawk

Exactly when did we cross the point where Japan’s cultural influence on the US is greater than vice-versa?

Ministry set at Brooklyn Paramount

Really enjoying this new discovery—a wonderfully playful anthology of left field electronic music by Osaka artist Hyu emrecords.bandcamp.com/album/inaudi...

Kim Gordon presents her new band at last week’s Long Play festival in Brooklyn

Fantastic show by Devo at the Brooklyn Paramount. This is billed AAAaa as their last tour, though they do seem to have plenty of gas left in the tank!

Nice story about the only westerner to work at Ghibli apple.news/AsMBuzmgkQO-...

Mercurial musician-composer Eucademix (Yuka Honda) & butoh dancer azumi O E join forces to present the world premiere of Respira, a new work to be copresented by my Japanese promotion group AvanTokyo with Issue Project Room on April 19. Info: www.avantokyo.org

Wonderful collection of tracks spanning the varied career of late, great avant-garde jazz drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. daily.bandcamp.com/lists/ronald...

“They had a red carpet going to the terminal—and geisha girls,” jazz funk legend Roy Ayers told me in 2011 about his first trip to Japan in 1966. His influence on the Japanese acid jazz and hip hop scenes would prove incalculable, and the love was mutual. RIP

metropolisjapan.com/roy-ayers/

Some nice sleuthing here unseenjapan.medium.com/report-tokyo...