Style is everything to Japan’s Pizzicato Five. It isn’t just that the group’s members — singer Maki Nomiya and composer Yasuharu Konishi — are inevitably dressed to the nines when they ...

This week, we’re talking about great songs not sung in English. Pizzicato Five was the most prominent band to emerge from Japan’s Shibuya-kei scene, but that’s as minor a distinction as ...

Japanese electro-pop veterans Pizzicato Five are calling it quits after 15 years. Yasuharu Konishi and Nomiya Maki have announced they will play one final show as Pizzicato Five on March 31 in ...

After the breakup of Pizzicato Five in 2001, Nomiya began her solo career and continued to collaborate with various major J-pop figures. By Billboard Japan A genre of retro J-pop called “city ...

Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields once quipped (for he does little else) that the best thing about Pizzicato Five might be their sleeves. Each passing year that observation comes closer to ...