Owen

Music runs in the family for Mike Kinsella, who's played alongside brother Tim and cousin Nate in key Illinois bands Joan of Arc and Cap'n Jazz. As Owen, he goes it alone, spinning bittersweet, maudlin songs that occasionally recall Iron & Wine's Samuel Beam. For the second Tokyo date in a tour to support last year's affecting Ghost Town album, he's joined by singer-songwriter Ryo Hashimoto and – more unexpectedly – Masafumi Isobe and Kazuya Hirabayashi, formerly of punk rockers Husking Bee.