Summer Sonic
I just got back from a huge music festival held in Japan every summer, called Summer Sonic. It's two days in Osaka and Tokyo, with several stages and tons of huge acts.
This year I went because of my other job, but it was still really cool. This year the big headliner was Stevie Wonder, who was unfortunately playing at the same time as Dream Theater... I had a hard time deciding, but I went to see Dream Theater, who were incredible as usual. My coworkers told me Stevie was great!
It's been going on since 2000, and looking at some of the posters from past events I wish I had known about it then!
There are lots of other huge festivals in Japan too, like Fuji Rock, held in the summer at a ski resort in Niigata; Rock in Japan, Loud Park, which features hard rock and metal acts, and various jazz, punk, etc festivals around the country.
If you're not familiar with a lot of Japanese music, you can catch some pretty interesting acts. One of my favorites is a band called 'te, which is an instrumental post-rock band with very long album and title names. Atmospheric yet energetic. Good stuff!
I'll see if my coworkers took any good pictures and put them up!
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