Watching Carol Nguyen’s short film “No Crying at the Dinner Table” as a child of Asian immigrants is an uncomfortable, queasy experience–if only because it touches upon a familiar sense of stoicism that haunts many ...
If you were to lay out all of the major milestones in Yaeji’s career up to this point, you would find that WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던, the musician’s debut mixtape, would have been a ...
Growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles County, I’ve occasionally wondered what the story was behind those local Asian-owned mom and pop donut shops that were never more than a five-minute drive away. They ...
In one of their first interviews as a band, the five members of Strawberry Generation were asked a curious question: “What unites you in this group?” The unanimous answer? Brockhampton. If you’ve already listened to ...
In recent years, there’s been a small wave of domestic horror films whose source of terror comes from within. Rather than being haunted by a monster or a psycho killer, the threat instead comes from ...
For years now, Toronto-based R&B musician Sylo Nozra has been churning out sleek hits. Even all the way back on his debut 2015 EP, Late & Dawn, those traces of booming musicianship were there–noticeably lo-fi, ...
Directed by Kathy Meng, “My Boyfriend’s Daughter” is a short film that follows Essie (Claire Hsu), a young Asian American woman engaged in a relationship with the significantly older Karl (Guy Ventoliere). However, despite dating ...
“This is not a love story. I hate love stories. If you’re single in this city, it’s the worst place to be.” From the opening narration, Mayumi Yoshida’s “Tokyo Lovers” makes it clear that loneliness ...
Scribbled in notebooks and locked away in hard drives for years, the love songs on Land Lover are not new to yllwblly (Boston-based self-taught musician Mark Tseng-Putterman). A near five years following “the collapse of ...
Back in 2019, we reviewed Los Angeles-based alt-Jpop duo Bakénéko (Mai Ikushima and Brandon Liew)’s debut single “Remember,” a soaring hook-filled banger that could easily shake up neon arenas. Now, they’re back again with “Stay,” ...
