Alt / Punk rock from Japan. 9mm Parabellum Bullet got started in the early / mid 2000s and have, up to this point, released 4 albums, with a 5th due in July, as well as several EPs. The band consists of 4 members: a lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, a backing vocalist and lead guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer. The group’s sonic awesomeness, along with the inherent language barrier for most of us Americans, leaves one in a euphoric stupor of echoing waves and swelling rifts. Plus, the songs are just damn catchy.

Lo-fi, psychedelic, experimental, dubby hip-hop and rock. Gonjasufi (born Sumach Ecks) teamed up with underground hip-hop producer The Gaslamp Killer for his debut release in 2010, A Sufi And A Killer. The album sports 19 short and sweet tracks of glitched noise, skeletal instrumentation, and Sumach’s crowing vocals; along with several obscure samples from cultural music and old Turkish cinema. To top it all off, Sumach has also been an actor, having played Helios in the opera Persephone, and works as a yoga instructor in Las Vegas.

Hear it: Laxatives with alphonse & suffle, Thursdays 12 a.m. to 1 a.m.

Hideki Taniuchi is a Japanese composer who has done works for anime television shows including Aoi Bungaku, Otogi Zoshi, and most notably the Death Note series. His music bears an impressive range, from somber alt-rock to electronic experimental to dreadful ambience. He is a master at portraying the despondence and wonder within us all.

Hear it: For that dreadful flow, that seething roar. From jungle to desert to grievous night. Let these echoes string you together, sew you up, and make you whole. Only to be splintered and dazed once more. Cleanse the body, and the mind, with “laxatives“. Wednesdays at midnight with alphonse and sufflé. Only on WRCT Pittsburgh.