Winner, 2023 New England Music Awards “Video of the Year” for”Time Machine”!
Nominated, 2023 Boston Music Awards “Vocalist of the Year"; David Santos”!
Eddie Japan is a Boston-based cinematic pop band, performing independently and regularly with “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” member Greg Hawkes, playing full shows of the music of “The Cars”.
The group has been a magnetic force since its inception, buoyed by a soaring, dramatic sound that sounds nothing like anything else in the city it calls home.
To some, Eddie Japan has commanded the stage – touring with The Motels; opening for The Fixx and Ultravox’s Midge Ure; winning a Boston Music Award for “Best Live Act”; is a WGBH “Band You Should Know”; winning the 2013 Rock And Roll Rumble; resurrecting the music of The Cars with the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s keyboardist and synth pioneer Greg Hawkes; and amassing a cult following around New England.
To others, Eddie Japan has commanded the screen – 2019 single “Summer Hair” was included on Harmonix’s game Fuser; and breakout 2015 single “Albert” was featured in Rock Band 4, launching countless musicians and guitar hopefuls around the world while the track generated over a million plays, and counting, on Spotify.
Their 2023 album “Pop Fiction” proves the Eddie Japan story is still unfolding, like new chapters to your favorite novel.
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“Pop Fiction” Reviews!
“Eddie Japan has crafted an album that you can’t help but fall in love with. ‘Pop Fiction’ is the cinematic Boston septet at its absolute best.”- The Whole Kameese
“Even after hearing the prelude that was their solid 2019 EP, there’s still little to prepare you for the sonic oddness/brilliance of Eddie Japan’s new 11 song debut LP, Pop Fiction.” - New Noise Magazine
“Eddie Japan Masterfully Weave An Epic Aural Story On Ambitious Pop Fiction” - Rock and Roll Fables
“Pop Fiction and its libretto styling takes the musical force that is Eddie Japan, a sterling sonic cocktail stirred with glam, new wave, indie, pop-rock and soundtracked for a retro-futuristic Great Gatsby party for our redefined ‘20s, and pulls the listener inward, furthering its themes of boredom, loneliness, love, betrayal, fantasy and regret.” - The Big Takeover
“It’s the elegant noise and cinematic melody that thrives in the slashes that bind genres together, allowing the celebrated Boston band to elicit a spectrum of genres – new wave, pop-rock, glam, indie, art-pop, romo, that new sound that has yet to have a name – over the course of one tightly-knit pop song.” - Maximum Volume Music: Artist of the Day
