You know that feeling you get when somebody says to you, “You’ve never seen that movie?!” or “You’re never heard of so-and-so?!” or “You’ve never been to that famous place?!” or “How can you not know this band?!” I...

Nearly every day on my way home from work, I pass by Manhattan Records, a Tokyo institution of 30 years that mostly Hip-Hop, R&B, Soul, and House. After passing Ultra Shibuya, Hi-Fi Records, several Disk Unions, Tower Records, an...

Hello “Cheer the Rock!” Welcome to Tokyo Records Style!“Where did you get a name like “Cheer the Rock?” “It was thought up by the artist MAAACHIRIN, who is on the Shibuya music label I run called “Pinpuri(.com)”. “Wow, what...

Sesame Street……ok bear with me.I grew up on Sesame Street, well not actually ON Sesame Street, but watching it as a kid. I have 4 younger siblings, spread in ages across 12 years. So Sesame Street was on our...

Record collecting friends! Brian here, representing Tokyo Record Style!! Announcing "Tokyo Record Style Day - Volume 7 - Nishiogikubo!!" Join us for another afternoon of crate-digging with homies in local Tokyo neighborhoods, where gems and grails await us in clusters...