Delve into Los Angeles-based director Maegan Houang's filmography, and you'll be stunned at some of the macabre things that you'll find. Horror, unnerving tension, and elements of dark fantasy all…
Eccentric Japanese synthpop artist ZOMBIE-CHANG (Meirin Yung) has perfected the wonky pop song. After stunning us last year with her idiosyncratic third album PETIT PETIT PETIT, Yung returns with her…
Hong Kong-based rock group Prune Deer (話梅鹿) made their return last week with their brash single "Return," featuring a very familiar voice in the Asian indie scene: Japanese experimental musician…
In early 2015, San Francisco indie-pop band No Vacation quickly received attention for the nostalgic bedroom-pop sounds off of their debut mixtape, Amo XO and their surf-rock single, “Dræm Girl”.…
Grainy film. Stark blue skies contrasted with grey concrete. Vintage camcorders and 90s headphones that have been dusted off just to be put in front of the camera once again.…
If there's one song that spoke to the power of YouTube algorithms in 2018, it would have to be Mariya Takeuchi's "Plastic Love". Almost out of nowhere, this decades-old Japanese…
Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of songs that most rap songs can be categorized into: pride songs and hype songs. Pride songs are those songs where the artist talks…
Sasami Ashworth's self-titled debut album, SASAMI, is shaping up to be a good one. Today, the Los Angeles-based artist dropped her fourth and final single before the album release, "Free". However,…
Is there anything more fun than a CHAI video? Today, the four-piece kawaii-rockers (whose debut album Pink was one of our favorites from last year) released their newest song, "CHOOSE GO!"…
Six-piece collective Balming Tiger is about to set fire to the hip-hop scene. Taking their name from the iconic Asian ointment "Tiger Balm", the self-proclaimed "K-Pop band" has somehow remained…
