The Japanese music world is as fascinating as it is occasionally bizarre. While groups like AKB48 might dominate the radio waves, there are myriad talented bands and underground genres to be explored.

Rockabilly bands from three countries will gather in Seoul this Friday and Saturday for the Asian Rockabilly Festival, also being called Rumble in Seoul. Two Japanese bands, Johnny Pandora and the ...

Robert Gordon has played his brand of rockabilly in a variety of permutations. But, he acknowledges, few have been as potent as the Gang They Couldn’t Hang, a “supergroup” that includes his longtime ...