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"NOISE
Magazine " -----December, 2007 The Tokyo Tramps have the unfortunate timing of having to play during game two of the World Series, .......more |
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"Asian
Boston " -----October, 2007 There is no guarantee for success in the music industry and certainly no telling what genre of music will take off next. Bands come and go on the local Boston scene quicker than a magazine can write about them. But .......more |
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"Boston
Globe Sidekick " -----January, 2007 Don’t be fooled by the look - or name - of the Tokyo Tramps. This three-piece band from Japan plays as if its musicians were raised in the Deep South and brought up on Delta blues. .......more |
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"Blues
Bunny " -----January, 2007 This 4 track EP is the follow up to their 2003 release “Bound For Glory”. They have a real energetic sound that is somewhere between contemporary blues and rock - yet doesn’t quite sit comfortably in either .......more |
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"Indie
In-Tune Magazine " -----November, 2006 When the nights begin to draw in and the gloom of the coming winter seems fast approaching those of us whose mood is affected by seasonal shifts have two choices: Go on Holiday or listen to good music.......more |
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"Intermixx
Webzine " -----December, 2005 My next choice for Top Ten is a great CD entitled "Bound For Glory." This disc was actually released in 2003 but since I have some catching up to do I'm including it. .......more |
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"Metronome
Magazine" -----October, 2003 Music is truly a universal language. Take for example, the band, Tokyo Tramps; four Japanese kids who attended Berklee College and have two albums out of American based, original blues/rock......more |
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"Boston
Magazine" -----October 2002 Even Japanese Berklee students get the blues. By David Wildman In Boston, THE ALL-JAPANESE BLUES-ROCK OUTFIT TOKYO TRAMPS are perennial outsiders:.....more |
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"The
Noise"----- July / August, 2001 By Joe Coughlin These people are the coolest. I gotta call this roots pop. There are smidgens of many fine things here.......more |
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"Boston
Globe" -----May 13, 2001 An Eastern spin on the blues. By David Wildman Satoru Nakagawa, singer/songwriter in the Japanese blues/R&B group Tokyo Tramps feels he has as much right as anyone else to create music ......more |