Tokyo Deep Live Picks End Of The Line Bumper Edition!

This will be the last Tokyo Deep Live Picks for the foreseeable future! So make sure you go to each and every one of these events, even if it means being in two places at once. I know I will!

Friday

Twistin' Rumble Bye Bye2016 DJ Session Special!!

Great sendoff at the cozy DJ bar Memphis Kyodai in Shimokitazawa, with Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Ryo the Dynamite, Wild Ox and more!

Saturday

Call And Response Christmas Disco

Secret lineup of Tokyo underground artists in Koenji! And chances are you can snag a copy of the new book on Japanese alternative music, Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground! (A review will be forthcoming.)

Sunday

Winstons Presents -Party Time!-

Tokyo's deepest soul band Winstons head up a great lineup at Hatagaya Heavy Sick, with hard rock from The Great Moongoose, Fifi Poorcow's new band Yesterday Once More, DJ Rie from Stompin' Riffraffs and more!

Rockabilly Graffiti -Xmas Party-

London Nite X'mas 36th Anniversary Special

Monday + Wednesday

FRED & TOODY Live in Japan 2016

Members of Portland, OR punk rockers join an all-star Tokyo cast for two gigs. It's worth going just for Guitar Wolf, Fadeaways, Tweezers, Talent Show, Rockbottom, and DJs Hiroshi Sekiguchi and Toyzo! Poor Cow will be open after the Shimokitazawa show.

Live From The Kitchen Disco Volume 31: Bumper Christmas Special!

Last event of the year for Tokyo's most diverse music event - all free!

Also happening

Ramones Exhibition

Nothing But True Punk!

Romi Mori Photo Exhibition「Eternal Dusk」

Gun Clubber and sometime Jesus and Mary Chain guest Romi Mori shows photos from a life in music. Also live and DJ events, see Facebook event for details!

Tokyo Super Junk Show

Massive antique and flea market with hundreds of dealers from all over the world selling 50s, 60s, 70s art, design and fashion!

New Fadeaways album and video!

Tokyo Deep favorites The Fadeaways have just released a new video to promote their latest album! Garage Punk Hitsville is out this week on Radio Underground records and collect favorites from the band's 11 years of rocking Japan and the rest of the world. Check out their new video below and find out more at The Fadeaways on Facebook!

Live picks: Weekend of Friday, December 9, 2016

Friday

Let's Bop♪♪

DJ Ayumi & friends at Memphis Brothers in Shimokitazawa

Saturday

 

Blast Jams!

Guitar Wolf and Neatbeats headline the latest Blast Jams! at Shimokitazawa Basement/Three, with soul from Soulcrap, garage from The Fadeaways and Stompin' Riffraffs, and much more!

Shimokitazawa Three/Basement access map

Here is my number

Another laid-back show at Ichibee Dining in Kichijoji, with the amazing rocking Minnesota Voodomen, indie from Bitter Sweet Generation and more.

Ichibee Dining access map



Tokyo Gig Guide presents FARM PARTY 21: Cocoon Pit, ネオンズ, 病気くん, Barry Zogon Band

Sunday

Young Parisian presents We Got A Radio!

Glam rock and more in Hatagaya!

Tokyo garage punk in the cinema!

The new documentary Garage Rockin' Craze, based on Mario Cuzic's many years of documenting the Tokyo garage rock scene and the Back From The Grave events, will have exclusive screenings with English subtitles on January 14-27! Check out the amazing Rockin' Jelly Bean poster above and the trailer below!

For more information, see the movie's homepage! (Japanese only)

Garage punk photo exhibition in Tokyo

Yukko Ono has been documenting the Tokyo garage punk scene for many years. Now you have a chance to see some of her amazing photos at the Ban Kuruwase bar in Yotsuya.

Opening hours: 19.00-24.00 weekdays until December 26.
One drink order required.
Event homepage
Google map

Live picks: Weekend of December 2, 2016

Sheena was a punk rocker!

In The Dynamite Jet Saloon vol. 2

On Saturday and Sunday, be prepared for a pop-punk explosion! Your ear will be ringing with melodies and your head will be rattling from the power chords attack of bands including Rockbottom, The Broken Hearts, Sunny Branch and The Humhums! There's also country-tinged tones of Talent Show, flat-out rock-n-roll of Rangsteen, DJs and much much more.

Ogikubo Club Doctor

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Tension!
And if pop-punk is not for you, what about some post-punk? Seven hours of that, plus lashings of noise-rock and offbeat experimental pop, all in hip Kichijoji! Hosted by Call and Response Record's Ian Martin, who just published the indispensable book Quit Your Band! - Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground.

DICE Party 2016

If all that post is too newfangled, let's go for some pre-punk! Stompin' Riffraffs, The Pringles, Los Rizlas and more hammer out raunchy rockabilly, riveting old-school rockers and more all night at the Yokohama Custom Hot Rod Show pre-party!

More gigs

Saturday

The Steed Hooves Presents「Go Now!」

Sunday

The Candy Ditches/ Mellvins/ Dusteaters/ Xtits/ Solid 6½`s

Also noteworthy

YOKOHAMA HOT ROD CUSTOM SHOW

Hot rod cars and bikes, vendor booths, art, live music and much more. Don't miss Tokyo Deep's favorite surf rock combo Jackie and the Cedrics with bass player and low-brow artist Rockin' Jelly Bean! What more could you wish for a Sunday afternoon by the sea?

Information in English

Live picks: Week of Friday, November 26, 2016

Wednesday

Deke Dickerson JAPAN TOUR 2016 Tokyo

Get twanging at Hatagaya Heavy Sick with the surf guitar legend known from Untamed Youth and many other projects! Also Japan's own beach combers Jackie and the Cedrics, faux-Mexicans Los Rizlas, the deranged Hasil Nuts, DJs and more!

Thursday

Burlesque Restaurant
Naughtiness and rock-n-roll with The Tassels, plus guest artists The Pringles, lounge DJs and more at Moja in Shibuya!

Friday

YOU GOT A RADIO LAST LIVE

The legendary Tokyo post-punk band bids farewell at Shimokitazawa Shelter!



Mystery Meat Vol. 44: Make Mystery Meat Again
DJ night at Beat Café in Shibuya!

Saturday

Days Of Speed

Low-key show with Key Yoshida (That's A No No!) and more at Kichijoji restaurant Ichibee Dining

Where were you in '63?

Rocking nostalgia with still-going-strong girl band The Pebbles, modsy Motel's Sofa and more at the intimate Green Apple in Koenji!

Litters present powerpop, punk and more from The Tweezers, The Bubbles and more at Kokubunji Morgana!

Outside Japan

If you are in New York, don't miss the chance to see the fantastic Stompin' Riffraffs at The King Khan & BBQ Show on November 22! See their Facebook page for more details & gigs.

Missed it? You can hear them live on WMFU here!