Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese Composer, Dead at 71

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese Composer, Dead at 71

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the highly influential Japanese pianist, composer, and electronic music producer, has died at 71, Kyodo News reports. Sakamoto had first revealed a throat cancer diagnosis in 2014, which went into remission after successful treatment. […]

Watch: Japanese Supergroup THE LAST ROCKSTARS Plays Sold-Out Concert At Hollywood Palladium

Watch: Japanese Supergroup THE LAST ROCKSTARS Plays Sold-Out Concert At Hollywood Palladium

Japanese supergroup THE LAST ROCKSTARS played a sold-out concert last night (Friday, February 10) at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Fan-filmed video of the show can be seen below (courtesy of the Faith WestYouTube […]

Watch: Japanese Supergroup THE LAST ROCKSTARS Plays First U.S. Concert In New York City

Watch: Japanese Supergroup THE LAST ROCKSTARS Plays First U.S. Concert In New York City

The Melissa CastorYouTube channel has uploaded video of the first-ever U.S. performance of the Japanese supergroup THE LAST ROCKSTARS, which took place Friday night (February 3) at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Check out […]

‘A modern-day fairytale’: the joyful Japanese food and friendship drama you should never watch hungry | Television

Natsuki Deguchi as Sumire in The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House.

With a Netflix Top 10 that, in the UK at least, features Ginny & Georgia, Vikings: Valhalla and Emily in Paris, you might be forgiven for wondering if there is much left on the streaming […]

From Abba to enka: how my 10-year-old fell in love with 1940s Japanese music | Music

Enka’s undisputed queen, the late Hibari Misora, performing at Tokyo Dome in 1988.

Since her father is a longtime music journalist and her mother is a musician, it was inevitable that my 10-year-old daughter would fall in love with music. But I never imagined that the music she […]

Japanese rockers Kikagaku Moyo: ‘Watching people board a train – that’s psychedelic!’ | Psychedelia

Frontman and drummer Go Kurosawa.

When we think of psychedelic music, we think of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the 13th Floor Elevators, blurry images from Woodstock. But for Japanese band Kikagaku Moyo, psychedelia is exemplified by their nation’s countercultural heroes […]

Madlib, Japanese Breakfast, Jungle Take Home 2022 Libera Awards: See the Full List of Winners – EDM.com

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The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has revealed the recipients of this year’s Libera Awards, which honors the successes of the independent music community. Held on June 16th, 2022, the ceremony celebrated the 10th […]