Ryo Fukui　

BOOWY　

Simple Minds　

Best known in the U.S. for their 1985 number one hit Don’t You (Forget About Me) from the film The Breakfast Club, Scotland’s Simple Minds evolved from a post-punk art rock band influenced ..more

Yuki Chiba　

Keisuke Yamauchi　

Hearts2Hearts　

XIA (Junsu)　

McAuley-Schenker Group　

Also known as MSG and originally known as the Michael Schenker Group, this hard-rock band was formed by the influential ex-Scorpions and UFO guitarist Michael Schenker in the very early ..more

Klaus Nomi　

One of the first prominent persons to die of AIDS, Klaus Nomi mixed rock and disco stylings with a classical and operatic repertoire. He was born Klaus Sperber in Berlin in 1945, but moved to Ne ..more

Polygon Window　

Richard James’ recorded his first album for Warp as part of the label’s Artificial Intelligence series. Polygon Window’s Surfing on Sine Waves was released in late 1992, and earned James’ ..more

Lou Reed　

The career of Lou Reed defied capsule summarization. Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he made over his image many times, mutating from theatrical glam rocker to st ..more

PEDRO　

Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku　

Florence +The Machine　

Howard Jones　

Howard Jones was one of the defining figures of mid-’80s synth pop. Jones’ music merged the technology-intensive sound of new wave with the cheery optimism of hippies and late-’60s pop. Jones ..more

KAWAII LAB.　

Charles Lloyd　

Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is a forward-thinking musician’s musician whose supreme improvisational talents and interest in cross-pollinating jazz with rock as well as non-Western styles of music dur ..more

Bonobo　

With the experimental warmth of ’60s French films and the pizzicato flavor of horizontal hip-hop, Simon Green’s Bonobo project established the welcome niche of a pretension-free, post-party inte ..more

Godspeed You! Black Emperor　

The instrumental multimedia Montreal group Godspeed You! Black Emperor create extended, repetition-oriented chamber rock. The minimal and patient builds-to-crescendo of the group’s compositions res ..more

TANAKA MIKU / ASTRHYME