CITY POP on VINYL 2021 from Sony: Enjoy the greatest city pop hits in this new collection
To celebrate City Pop, the loose but genre-crossing brand of Japanese pop music that grew popular across the globe in the 1970’s-1980’s, Sony Music’s analog…
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Hibiya Festival 2021’s Sanriku Performing Arts Dance pays stunning tribute to the resilience of the Tohoku region
Festivals are an important part of culture here in Japan. There are celebration days held for almost anything you can think of, and, as they’re…
Godzilla and King Kong battle it out to MAN WITH A MISSION’s INTO THE DEEP music video
Last night (1 June 2021) half-wolf half-man rock band, MAN WITH A MISSION, premiered their music video for their new song ‘INTO THE DEEP’ on…
Musician discoyogisya streams live VJ glitch shows as artists innovate during pandemic
The internet is fantastic for content discovery. Especially when it comes to music. Although record sales are a thing of the past, the plethora of…
Celebrate 40 years of guitar musicianship with Tak Matsumoto’s anniversary book collection
With a career that spans 4 decades now under his belt, grammy-award winning guitarist, Tak Matsumoto is celebrating with the release of two books detailing…
Former Deee-lite DJ Towa Tei celebrates 30 years in the music business with new album ‘LP’
Towa Tei, the record producer and DJ best known for his work with the band Deee-lite, has released a new album to mark his 30th…
Hikaru Utada’s new song shown off in latest Neon Genesis Evangelion movie trailer
Just earlier this month, it was announced that the final film in iconic anime Neong Genesis Evangelion’s Rebuild of Evangelion series, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon…
The legendary live performance of Def Tech will appear on WOWOW in January 2021
Def Tech is a Japanese band that had its debut in 2005. The band initially started in 2000, and their popularity grew after releasing the…
Recommended Japanese Songs to Listen to this Christmas
It is once again the Christmas season, and I don’t know about you, but this is one of my favorite times of the year. Christmas…
SEGA releases soundtrack featuring nostalgic title music from Sonic the Hedgehog
He’s cute, he’s smart and he’s incredibly fast. But not only that, Sonic the Hedgehog is also stepping into the musical world with this new…
Muro Box – The world’s first smart music box
We are living in a technologically advanced era; with VR experiences, artificial intelligence, facial recognition and practically the whole world just a click of a…
Calculator “pianist” perfectly replicates Tokyo’s train station jingles
When trains depart from platforms at stations across Japan, they are accompanied by a simple melody unique to the station and/or trainline. Designed to invoke…
Music of the Ainu indigenous people is strangely hypnotic
Although Japan is largely considered homogeneous, minority groups do exist. Twenty-five thousand residents are considered Ainu, an East Asian ethnic group indigenous to the northern…
Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts give stay-at-home performance of Cowboy Bebop opening
For many fans, Shinichiro Watanabe’s classic series Cowboy Bebop was a formative anime experience. To this day, however, it seems that even more than the…
Kamen Rider and Super Sentai Opening Theme Greatest Hits CD to be released
Compared to anime fans, Kamen Rider and Super Sentai fans may not have as strong a representation worldwide but they are quite a passionate group,…