30 things to do this weekend

Friday

Tokyo Auto Salon 2012
There'll be over 600 vehicles (and an entire army of scantily clad 'booth babes') on display at the world's largest custom car show this weekend, and you can get an advance preview of it all this afternoon. Read more

Fillmore & Avalon Poster
Vivid colours and swirly psychedelic imagery abound in this exhibition of posters from the collection of late concert promoter Bill Graham, spread across Harajuku's Vacant and Shibuya's Dictionary Club Art School. Read more

Ubik
Arch minimalist Jens Zimmermann continues to atone for his involvement with cheesy early-'90s Eurodance sensations Culture Beat at Eleven tonight, accompanied by the ever-reliable DJ Nobu. Read more

Yuksek
French producer Yuksek responded to the solitude of touring by releasing an album of joyously infectious electropop. If you can't make this headlining show, he's also playing an all-nighter at WWW later on. Read more

Seiichi Yamamoto & Phew
The ex-Boredoms guitarist and idiosyncratic singer take a break from their noisier collaborations tonight to play a rare duo show, drawing on the beguiling, artless songs from 1998's Shiawase no Sumika LP. Read more

Angelic Upstarts
They were the band who applauded the IRA for trying to blow up the Conservative cabinet. Join singer Thomas 'Mensi' Mensforth and a reformed Angelic Upstarts as they kick out the jams at Fever. Read more

Big Air Shinnenkai 2012
It costs a painfully precise ¥2,012 to get in to Air's New Year party tonight, where the music comes from residents including Ken Ishii, Taku Takahashi and Dexpistols – with free saké to sweeten the deal. Read more

Sterne
The kingpin of Beijing's underground techno scene faces off against his closest Japanese counterpart at Womb tonight. Mickey Zhang versus Takkyu Ishino: who's going to win? (Oh, and Ten's playing too, you know.) Read more

CSS @ Tokyo Indie x Vanity
The indie world's favourite bunch of Brazilian party girls are getting warmed up for tomorrow's Studio Coast gig with a party at fashionista den Trump Room, where they'll spin alongside DJs Xu, Paul James and others. Read more

Asobinite!!!
Tomoyuki 'Fantastic Plastic Machine' Tanaka is the master of ceremonies at this New Year edition of Ageha's cheesiest house party, where you can also expect sets from Jazzin' Park and Kentaro Takizawa. Read more