Bo Ningen

Acid Mothers Temple (Sat., 10:15pm, Elevation Amphitheatre) Osaka krautrocker Kawabata Makoto and his Tokyo fivepiece storm acid rain on Astrorgasm from the Inner Space.

Bo Ningen (Sun., 11:30pm, Levitation Tent) Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke declared this UK Japanese foursome his SXSW highlight in March, new disc III dancing a middle ground between Boris and Yoko Ono.

Kikagaku Moyo (Sun., 6:15pm, Elevation Amphitheatre) Tokyo quartet translates free-form folk-psych into namesake “geometric patterns.”

Mono (Sat., 8:45pm, Levitation Tent) Tokyo’s most instrumentally lyrical male/female fourpiece matched Explosions in the Sky’s The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place with 2012’s sixth LP, For My Parents.

This article appears in May 2 • 2014.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.