The Japan Times featured a couple of articles related to the Scene genre yesterday. The articles entitled “Anime, J-indie equals ‘Woodstock for geeks’,” and “The D.I.Y. route to rock stardom” discuss various items related to Japanese independant music in North America including (now Don-recommended) purveyors of music JapanFiles.com, as well as events previously discussed here, […]

A small error on the free Megababe show at Yonge-Dundas tomorrow (Saturday June 10th). The amended time follows.
June 10th @ Yonge-Dundas Square (NXNE Indie Music Market); 5:00PM

Here’s some extra info concerning the two Japanese bands who will perform at this year’s NXNE in Toronto. The good thing is we’ll get to see (what should be) a free show at Yonge-Dunas Square.
Megababe -
June 8th @ El Mocambo; 9:00PM
Jun 10th @ Yonge-Dundas Square (NXNE Indie Music Market); 12:00AM (technically June 11th)
Stone Deaf -
June […]

Toronto’s North By Northeast festival, taking place June 8 - 10, 2006 will (as of latest notice) be host to two indie punk rock bands from Tokyo; Megababe and Stone Deaf. The band names are all I have now, but expect more details soon. The list is not complete, so perhaps we’ll see some […]