A fresh face! Conor moved to Tokyo just a couple months before my “Tokyo Record Style Day Vol. 11” at Nishikameari, caught wind of my channel and just showed up without knowing me or anybody who might have joined! GOOD ON YA, Conor! I remember doing the same kinda thing when I first arrived in Tokyo, finding curiously interesting happenings around the city, looking for new homies to make, and just rolling up on things and seeing what might happen. That’s the way to live an adventurous life, cuz navigating new personal encounters can be as treacherous (and fun) as […]
Tokyo Record Style
Shin, Hatsu, XiaoXiao
As I was walking out of Rare Records this weekend with a George Harrison “What is Life” / Apple Scruffs” 7”, walking in were three of the most colorful record shoppers I’ve ever seen. I immediately called my 3:30 rendezvous and said I’d be late, and that three fur-coated, kinky-booted, and Vivienne Westwood-ed, could-be-models had just walked into Rare, and if they wanted to come to potentially see some Tokyo Record Style in action, to rush my way. Then, admittedly, I waited outside the shop, spying to see if these three attention-arresting-fashioned women would walk out with any records. One […]