30 things to do this weekend

Saturday

Real Toughness Tokyo
Breakdancers, BMX riders and skateboarders vie for supremacy in Roppongi Hills Arena today, in the Tokyo leg of G-Shock's annual Shock the World tour – also featuring music from former Pharcyde MCs Fatlip and Slimkid3. Read more

Gerhard Richter: New Strip Paintings
It seems you can teach an old dog new tricks after all. At 80, Gerhard Richter has returned to the strip paintings that he first started making in the 1980s – only this time he's ditched the squeegees and gone digital. Read more

Arte y Solera
Mayumi Kagita and Hiroki Sato's Arte y Solera company has fused flamenco with kabuki and taiko drumming in recent productions, but for its latest Christmas show it'll be keeping things in a more traditional vein. Read the review

Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
With this summer's At the Drive-In reunion out of the way, Omar Rodriguez Lopez can get back to the important business of confusing the hell out of people. Expect the unexpected at Liquidroom this evening. Read more

Dustin Wong
Fresh from opening for Dirty Projectors – and with a support slot for Beach House due next month – guitarist Dustin Wong heads to Soup for a 90-minute session of six-string, loop-pedal hypnotism. Read more

Leon Ware & Friends
Soul singer and songwriter Leon Ware hits the Blue Note Tokyo to celebrates 50 years of being quietly influential, with friends including vocalist Chanté Moore and singer/keyboardist Joseph 'Amp' Fiddler. Read more

Modern Jazz Discotheque
Saxman and DCPRG leader Naruyoshi Kikuchi will be leaving the horn at home and flexing his DJ chops instead at Pit Inn, in a 'disco' session that harks back to the golden days when jazz still ruled the charts. Read more

Gueen
Catch Japan's greatest Queen tribute act (and yes, there's a surprising amount of competition for that title) in a rare large-scale show at O-East, which doubles up as a fundraiser for the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Read more

Kompakt Japan 03
A full eight years after releasing his debut album, Kompakt label boss has finally found time to release a follow-up – and it doesn't disappoint. Get ready to swoon over some unashamedly romantic techno at Unit. Read more

Bizarre Ride Live! Japan Tour 2012
Once they're done with the Real Toughness Tokyo event at Roppongi Hills (see above), former Pharcyde MCs Fatlip and Slimkid3 will be heading to Air to reprise their seminal debut LP, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde. Read more

Independent
Divisions are rife in the dance scene at the moment, but Tiga just wants to bring the underground and EDM kids together. Expect a mixed crowd when the eclectic electro kingpin headlines at Vision tonight. Read more

Music is Connected to Universe
Ten years (and a few solar eclipses) after starting life at Kawasaki's Club Citta, promoters Mother celebrate their 10th anniversary with an appropriately overblown party at Ageha, starring Joris Voorn and Son Kite. Read more

Solista feat. Deepchord
Both one of the first and one of the best producers to find inspiration in the '90s dub techno of Basic Channel, Rod 'Deepchord' Modell just keeps getting better. Catch him live at Eleven, alongside Aoki Takamasa. Read more