Alternative rock

Among the most unapologetically independent voices in Japan’s alternative music scene stands TENTENKO (てんてんこ), a former first-generation member of the groundbreaking anti-idol group BiS who has forged a fiercely self-produced solo career since the group’s 2014 disbandment. Owning her own label, Tenten Records, and releasing dozens of homemade albums via crowdfunding and Bandcamp, TENTENKO embodies the self production —— she composes, produces, DJs, and performs with zero reli