The inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN ceremony, the largest music awards in the country, is set to take place in May in Kyoto. Embodying the theme of "Connecting the world, illuminating the future of music ...
No exploration of Japanese music would be complete without a dive into the world of J-Pop. Short for Japanese popular music, J-Pop is hard to define. It encompasses a wide breadth of genres and ...
I wish it was you who smiled saying the snow is pretty~.” A “national winter song” that goes viral in Japan every winter is resonating in South Korea this winter. On the first week of the new year ...
In the late 1990s, before algorithms defined taste, before platforms flattened culture into recommended rows of thumbnails, music discovery still relied on randomness. Napster was messy, mislabeled, ...