Cyndi Lauper: Friend of the LGBT community, friend of Japan Posted on July 18, 2013 by dangrunebaum “The Japanese fans and companies were great people and really stuck by me,” she recalls. “When the Americans made me feel like I should crawl and fall off the edge of the earth, these people would come to me and say, ‘Please make music—we love your music.’ And these are the same people that are suffering and you think I’m going to walk away? I don’t forget easily, and I was having nightmares about the Japanese.” Metropolis, Jul 18, 2013
Vampire Weekend: The NYC hipsters sink their teeth into Tokyo Posted on July 18, 2013 by dangrunebaum “Japan is one of the only places where we grew considerably in terms of our following between our first and second albums,” Rostam Batmanglij says from his New York home. Metropolis, Jul 3, 2013
JapOneEra Posted on July 18, 2013 by dangrunebaum DJ Baku’s new era in Japanese breakbeats Metropolis, Jun 25, 2013
Summer Festival Guide ’13 Posted on July 18, 2013 by dangrunebaum From analog headbangers to techno raves, Japan’s music fests have everything under the sun Metropolis, Jun 20, 2013
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