The heart is a monstrous thing. When we’re young and heartbreaks come easy, it seems so true it’s barely worth acknowledging. If we’re lucky, we grow up and spend the rest of our lives forgetting ...
For Tracy Hyde is not your average Japanese shoegaze band. In Ethernity, the dream pop quintet defy genre and thematic expectations, openly taking on political themes and merging them with their classic ethereal sound to ...
Nana Yamato’s life changed when she stumbled into BIG LOVE RECORDS, a record store located in Harajuku, Tokyo. Born and raised in Chiba, Japan, a rural city that Yamato describes as having “no culture,” Yamato ...
Japanese pop/R&B singer RIRI is destined to become a major star. Take a listen to her show-stopping pop banger “HONEY” and flirtatious anthem “That’s My Baby,” and it’s easy to see the reasons why SONY ...
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 harunemuri 春ねむり (Haruna Kimishima). Though ...
Japanese hip-hop duo Yurufuwa Gang makes hype-beast rap that would fit right into place alongside 88Rising’s colorful lineup. Sporting eclectic clothing, a lo-fi hip hop aesthetic, and an intimidating fuck-you attitude, Ryugo Ishida and Sophiee ...
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. These are just a few ...
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 pop song which had once ...
Kyoto-based synthpop artist NTsKi is still a fresh face in the independent music scene, but “1992” is likely going to change that. “1992”, NTsKi’s newest single, is a synth-heavy 90s-era throwback much like the title ...
It’s been well established that the EDM scene in America, at least, is a huge business. Every year, thousands of people flock to otherwise deserted locations in order to party it up under frenetically flashing ...