My buddy wrote this article for our site Teppen a few months back. Rich has some good ideas of what to do once you leave those streaming platforms. teppen.life/disconnectin...

Flyers from Yumi. She saved them & then forgot she saved them. ‘Twas a funny LINE exchange

some ✨bsky exclusive✨ b&w shots from the show

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Mid-weekly reminder: If you plan to release new singles or albums, or hold an online event (listening parties, concerts, etc) NEXT WEEK, December 1st to December 7th, tell me about it! I'm putting this list together every SUNDAY evening. Artists, bands and labels of all genres are welcome! 👍

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Weekend reminder: If you plan to release new singles or albums, or hold an online event (listening parties, concerts, etc) NEXT WEEK, November 24th to November 30th, tell me about it! I'm putting this list together every SUNDAY evening. Artists, bands and labels of all genres are welcome! 👍

Seen in Koenji Like a shitpost in the wild

My review of Moonlight Flower is up. Act & Yumi as always were super rad; they sent the script way in advance so I could translate & invited Teppen to the final dress rehearsal. Act’s first project for her new company & the 20th anniv. for both. I wasn’t gonna miss it. teppen.life/moonlight-fl...

Noticed this @onezero.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...

Contributed a piece for the new comp from Histamine Tape. Using my field recording of a wind storm in Japan early 2024. #ambient #experimental #guitar histaminetapes.bandcamp.com/album/antihi...

PREY DAY: The only holiday I observed this year Muscled-up MacGyver-haired Nam vet wrecking shop in the smallest Daisy Dukes. Come for Ted Prior, stay for schlock mainstay Cameron Mitchell. Everything wonderful about the VHS action era.

Ela Minus' return to Elsewhere was triumphant, emotional, intense, beautiful. It's a venue she's played many times over the years, and in my mind, they're forever linked. I caught her last night and had to write about her journey from Zone One to headlining the Hall. teppen.life/the-house-th...

In August, Nagisa Murakami and Maya Akechi released a collaborative collection of songs, writings, poems, and more, called 'Gentle Connection'. A fitting name as both songwriters created a safe space for each other to be vulnerable and tender. teppen.life/maya-akechi-...

Good evening! The Dark Train will depart UFO Central [Warminster Community Radio] y Radio MINERVA at 2200 BST on Moonday evening. Have a good one! 🍄🍄🍄

The shit you could get off eBay in the late 90s for almost nothing (I mean under $10). Promo reel of Meat Puppets & Public Enemy music videos. Cleaning the house & rediscovering what I have.

The last two nights, I saw My Morning Jacket - and this time they didn't turn the clock back, but celebrate two different universes. That of 2005's Z, and 2025's Is. The game of ping-pong between the old and new led to complete unpredictability teppen.life/two-nights-o...

Interview with Yumi Agawa is up at Teppen. Haka & Act Yasukawa helped me get quotes. Only Yumi could garner loving quotes from Hikaru of #Kalafina & Ichiro Omomo, creator of Mighty Lady, in the same piece. 20 year career in entertainment that will never be replicated. teppen.life/yumi-agawa-t...

yufa has posted the only known photo of the entire teppen staff.

This game predicted everything.

"Go Birds!", more than just a rally cry for a football team, but a regional greeting you'll hear everywhere near Philly during the fall. An energy of optimism and excitement despite the state of the universe. An energy that defined Day 3 of the XPoNential Music Festival teppen.life/go-birds-202...

This was my chance for some experimental photography & also pay tribute to the PNW scene I grew up in. I was just a young teen when Charles Peterson was in Seattle clubs capturing blurred-out magic for Sub Pop. So b/c of Teppen I found myself in a Seattle club on a Friday night & shot in his style.

Asking this question of myself is how I launched the Other People's Music project. Let me tell you, it is EXTREMELY rewarding to use your skills to do something kind and useful for someone with no expectation of reward (as contradictory as that sounds).

Found myself becoming really interested in the sounds of nature and places. You can genuinely lose yourself in the recordings @radiolento.bsky.social & @citiesandmemory.bsky.social have some great soundscapes to listen to👇🏻 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

WXPN ( @wxpnfm.bsky.social ) is the home of "Funky Friday" so it's really not too much of a surprise that this year's XPoNential Music Festival was home to the funkiest Friday of them all! teppen.life/the-funkiest...

I cried when courtney played depreston. Craig Finn shared my photo. And my love for Philadelphia is as stronger than ever. What a weekend. Teppen!

just an amazing couple of days at XPN fest, I'll probably post more about it in detail on here - definitely a blog post or 3 coming (I haven't figured out how I'm gonna lay it out lol) But man, photographing Sharon Van Etten for Teppen was a really emotional thing that didn't hit me til it happened

We keep getting invited to stuff so we’re gonna keep showing up. I have some words on this but first Rich will be in Brooklyn for Haru with top notch photography. I essentially stood on the side of the stage all evening for Haru’s concert.

Headed to XPoNential Music Festival presented by Subaru this weekend in Camden, NJ? I ramble a little about the acts and why it's such an interesting lineup. See you there! #xpnfest teppen.life/a-quick-prev...

Yeah this the monster truck cds, Hana picture disc, & a few more adult things too. I love that you can tell the Ram release is from Lake Shark b/c Sam aka The Rita, has a signature style. Gravure Girls – Saki Akai (the lo-rez art feels right)

A bunch of the tape releases and the Manami Toyota set w/ gravure booklet. I have alternate layouts of the SLK trifold artwork as I was a sounding board for the art direction. That Suzu tape is mean as hell w/ wicked photos. Gold band on the Sareee tape is a nice touch. Madusa has tons of extras.

The Blood Quest of Sera Risa is the ultra ltd version, number 1 of 6 that includes a DVD of the film he projects during performances and Gravure Girls CD. Mayu Iwatani has a hand cut belt around the album. Special edition of Women’s Most Violent that I think was for the last Japan tour.

End of an era: years worth of Slit Throats releases that became a mountain at Roman‘s house. It was covid so I said wait to ship & then the rule was the pile can grow until it falls on Maika (his cat) or he gets sick of it. Mailed it out before heading to Japan for Machine Parts. I’ll the post more.

Early 90s Fripp is some of my fav & sorta overlooked. Soundscape era begins but remnants of frippertronics are still present. RFSQ Live in Japan is perfect & a VHS I got in the 90s. In the early 2000s Bert Lams was a great mentor to me when I did Seattle GC courses. youtu.be/0FP5kyPiyKEI...

Teppen interviewed @haru-nemuri.bsky.social about self-producing her new album "ekkolaptómenos," misogyny in Japan, not staying silent on issues, the differences in Western audiences, & more. teppen.life/an-interview...

Cagematch is fine for stats & card info (esp the last 10yrs). Wikipedia misses key points in many careers. Neither provides much context. However, Japanese Wikipedia is in-depth in most cases (I know Japanese fans who contribute, & they are beyond thorough, going off decades of 1st hand knowledge).

Coming this week to Teppen is our interview with HARU NEMURI. It's the 1st interview for the site & we are honored she spent so much time discussing her upcoming US/Canada tour & new album "ekkolaptómenos." Head over to teppen.life. We spotlight artists doing meaningful work.

Going through photos from my last trip. Yumi, Act & me from Agaworld (I helped behind the scenes). After the group shot, they wanted a trio photo. I was tired, unshaven & disheveled, but I suppose friends don’t care about that. I always tell Act that her real legacy just started. 2026 will be proof.

It’s really cool; there are some really exciting things on the horizon. I’ve had a “why not?” attitude for a few years; my mom used to always tell me variations of “you don’t know unless you ask.” Her attitude was “This person/company has contact information, so let’s contact them.”

Gonbe is the Kevin Nash of AWG, hitting em with a favored nations clause. She said, all cool and nonchalant, “Those marks gotta pay double for a message from me. This ain't show friends; it’s show business.”

August 30th in Everett I’ll be performing at Artisans Books & Coffee. It’s free, which is the price everyone likes for entertainment. I’ll have merch too. A good lineup of the Seattle experimental/noise/weirdo music scene.

AWG Korakuen: come for Poi/Anou, stay for Togi playing bass Act/Mari got belts again There’s a difference between match of the year (which I don’t do) & favorite match. Miz vs Nagisa is my fav of 2025. Other stuff happened as well. #AWG #WrestleSky #stardom resuramag.com/2025/08/21/a...

No “Images in a Convent”; I mean, ol’ D’Amato takes it into sleazy pornographic territory, but that Nico Fidenco score is the most gorgeous music, & it’s never discussed since it’s attached to such an “acquired taste” of a film. youtu.be/yMR_A0k1ZEA

The only interview I know of that Duke Pearson did, & it’s near the end of his Blue Note tenure. About an hour, & I wish it were four. Talking about recording & marketing for the label. Nuts & bolts stuff. youtu.be/lDNvezlHik8

Viper - Poison Clover (1982) So in the weeds with this synth-laden NWOBHM. Type of stuff that will not get the fancy retrospective treatment. The 5 tracks from “Turn & Waff” might be everything. Album cover straight from a Brazilian [Unofficial] Fanclub Facebook group. youtu.be/Ib9zZKuq3ok

Black metal. Chiptune. Dungeon synth. Some other junk. WereGnome presents music for anyone with questionable taste. Check us out here: weregnomerecords.bandcamp.com

Act Game semifinal w/ Marino bringing it again as champ. The Miz had a fun David vs Goliath match w/ Rio. The roster will have new eyes on them at their big Koruakuen card as Poi & Anou return for one show. Lots of rebuilding since the ‘24 exodus. #joshi #wrestlesky 🤼‍♀️ resuramag.com/2025/08/11/a...

On May 31, 2025 I saw Manami Kakudo manipulate the world around her into music. The wind, the rain, just more instruments at her disposal. It has stuck with me as one of the most powerful, albeit, brief performances I've ever seen in person. We are all part of Manami Kakudo's musical universe.