LINKS

PIZZICATO FIVE AND KONISHI RELATED

PIZZICATO FIVE WEB SITE: Will it ever be updated?
KONISHI'S RELEASE SCHEDULE: Pretty good and official, but certainly not definite.
********* RECORDS: This also seems on hold.
KONISHI'S PAGE AT ALLOPHONIC: Nice Flash animation.
SOUNDFILE READYMADE FAN PAGE
PIZZICATO FIVE MAILING LIST: The one, the only.

PIZZICATO FAN SITES

The Pizzicato Five Song-by-Song Discography: My first P5 site. The madness began here.
The Pizzicato Five Lyrics Database: My second site. Nearly complete.
The Pizzicato Five Solo Site: Peter Vassilakis's site has info on Takanami and Maki-chan, but hasn't been updated since 1998.
Great Black Wonder: A collection of promo and rare items you probably didn't even know existed.
Pizzicato Lab: The main Japanese fan site.
Pizzicato Five Discography: Marc Wasiel's site, which includes a constantly updated list of upcoming releases.
Pizzicato Five Covers: David Kamil's authoratative guide to the songs P5 has covered.
BURN BABY BURN: My CD-R trade page.

REFERENCE

BUGGLE'S TECHNO-SYNTH-POP ACADEMY: The Big Mama of Japanese techno-pop information, quite impressive in its breadth, plus it's bilingual in Japanese and English. One of my main sources of information when I was making this site. He also hosts seven continually running "Record Hunting Diaries" of the day-to-day life of record collecting nuts, himself included (these, unfortunately, are not in English).
NICK KENT'S JAPANESE ELECTRONIC MUSIC PAGE: Nick Kent, not the famous music journalist but equally music-mad, gives an overview of Japanese music of the '80s and '90s, reviews and technology.
MARQUEE: The best Japanese magazine for info on Konishi and the whole Tokyo scene. Sometimes it seems that he edits the thing, as Pizzicato Five used to get a cover story at least once a year.
HEARTBREAKER'S JAPANESE MUSIC CHARTS: More J-pop, but does provide a good overview of this week's music scene with comprehensive links to artists and sound files.
BONSAI'S JPOP SEARCH: Down last time I looked, but a searchable database of Japanese fan sites.
IDOL POPS: (Japanese) A text-only database of Idol info.
YAHOO JAPAN: As you'd expect.
EXCITE WORLD TRANSLATIONS: Translate Japanese Web sites into surrealist, cut-up poetry masquerading as English.