Usually you’d hear an artist finding their footing in a debut album. That isn’t so much the case for Los Angeles-based musician Lexi Vega, who performs under the stage name Mini Trees. After two EPs ...
Following their atmospheric debut album Floaters and their splendid sophomore effort October Song, Lightning Bug’s third album A Color of the Sky gleams with honesty and acceptance. Dazzling instrumental arrangements and introspective lyrics see the ...
Taiwanese bedroom pop artist Layton Wu is an easy-going guy who wants to make music for fun. Make no mistake: while his music and visual aesthetic heavily borrows from 90s nostalgia and bedroom pop, Layton ...
Upon your first listen to Yufu & The Velvet Impressionism’s debut album Is It Vain To Be Awake?, you’ll feel like you just stepped back in time. Boasting a brash mix of psychedelia, rockabilly and ...
Korean American R&B singer Hae.zy reveals her inspirations and her love for Love on her debut 'Love Letter EP.'
Jazz, to most of us, is enigmatic in nature. Unless you’re a music theory aficionado, jazz is either a complex being that sounds nice with too many layers to handle, or a good subject to ...
Happy Cleaners, the debut feature film of Peter S. Lee and Julian Kim, tells the story of a Korean American family who runs a dry cleaning business in Flushing, New York. Instead of centering around ...
San Francisco-based filmmaker Debbie Lum has been making independent films for a while now. Way back in 2012, her first film Seeking Asian Female debuted at SXSW, which gave us a case study of Asian ...
Like many of us during this turbulent pandemic, I have become quite accustomed to the everyday homebody lifestyle. Waking up a quarter to lunchtime, slinking my way out of bed, only to end up mindlessly ...
Selena Yip is the Festival Director of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF), a “showcase event of Philadelphia Asian American Film and Filmmakers, a non-profit organization founded in 2008 dedicated to supporting and highlighting ...