To someone like me, an Asian American who knows little more than his little suburb in Los Angeles County, the idea of Asian Americans existing outside of the San Gabriel Valley bubble can be admittedly ...
“I just want to keep on feeling.” If there’s one lyric that stands out the most on the Canadian DJ Robotaki (Preston Chin)’s latest ethereal double release, “Los Angeles”/”Quasar,” it’s this. Feeling, which defines the ...
By now, Rina Sawayama should be recognized as one of the most exciting musicians to watch in the pop scene thanks to the sheer power of 2017’s RINA EP (and a slew of successful 2018 ...
Anaheim-based singer-songwriter Krost (Kristen Lee) is well on her way to releasing her newest project, Feel Alive EP, before the end of the year. Already we’ve heard the icy dance anthem “On the Vine” last ...
When we last heard from Los Angeles-based visual artist/musician Kelady a while ago, she had just released her scorching self-loving song, “Papaya.” This month, she’s followed that up with “Barkada,” a similarly hard-hitting song that ...
Back in June, the 626’s own Casper Sun (Edward Chao) dropped Pink Matter EP, a Frank Ocean inspired collection of jazz-hop and mellow-hype tracks. A project filled with collaborators, Pink Matter saw Chao working with ...
For many netizens, it’s easy to find evidence of the globalization of Japanese culture within digital media and arts. Whole subgenres of music have sprung to life thanks to the inspiration of certain “aesthetic” movements, ...
Unrequited love has long been a topic for many love songs. In fact, it’s such a universal feeling that makes it such a great topic for an artist to write about. And if they’re lucky, ...
It’s hard for musicians to form an honest connection between themselves and their listeners during a performance. What are they to do? With so many fans and so little time, musicians have to play sets ...
With the advancement and proliferation of music mixing software, making your own music has never been easier. Currently, bedroom pop, the genre of the burgeoning twenty-something musician, is glaring proof of that. Pop music–or music ...
