With so many awesome record store owners in Tokyo, it would impossibly hard and really unfair to to rank them in terms of coolness (first noting that by definition that they are many degrees cooler that the populace at...

How can, after all these years, Shibuya Scramble, AKA, “The busiest interaction in the world” keep impressing? It knocked my socks off the first time I saw it as it does everybody who has ever beared witness to it,...

I was thumbing through my 7” singles recently and came across Frank Zappa’s "Valley Girl". It’s no secret that I’m a huge Zappa head, and with all the money that I spent collecting his absolute massive discography I could...