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WATAPACHI Take Trap to Japan
Name: WATAPACHI
Where They're From: Tokyo, Japan
When They Started: 2012
Genre: Trap, Electronic
For Fans Of: Bosstone, Yellow Claw, Flosstradamus,...
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Josy Coos It Out and Then Cranks It Up
Name: Josy
Where They're From: Tokyo, Japan
When They Started: 2010
Genre: Psych rock meets art punk
For Fans Of: Akabane Vulgars On Strong Bypass, The...
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Zion.T Can Get It (Korea’s Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year, That Is)
Name: Zion.T
Where He's From: Seoul, South Korea
When He Started: 2011
Genre: R&B, Funk
For Fans Of: Primary, Musiq Soulchild
Sounds Like: Shades of...
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Jesse McFaddin of RIZE Stands Up on His Own
Words and interview by Patrick St. Michel
The Togoshi-Ginza neighborhood of Tokyo is a calm residential area boasting one major street flanked by stores and...
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Yes, PSY’s “Gentleman” IS “Gangnam Style,” Part II
If you haven’t been living under that rock that everyone mentions, you might have noticed that a certain global phenomenon is back with another world-grabbing single....
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ICON: Yoko Ono’s Impermeable Instinct for Creativity
Words and Exclusive Interview by Stephen Greco.
Intense curiosity and a strong commitment to make life the best it can be—those are qualities that can unite human...
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Meet Pirates Canoe: Kyoto Bluegrass Exists, And It Is Divine
Name: Pirates Canoe
Where they're from: Kyoto, Japan
When They Started: 2009
Genre: Bluegrass, Americana
Most Similar: Oh Brother Where Art Thou?...
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Cokiyu’s Our Dream Girl
Name: Cokiyu
Where She’s From: Ehime, Japan
When She Started: 2002
Genre: Ambient electro-pop
Most Similar: MMOTHS, Grimes
Sounds Like: Sugar, spice and...
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Lomovolokno Puts Pretty Russian Dreams to a Beat
Name: Lomovolokno
Where he's from: Krasnodar, Russia
Genre: Instrumental Hip-hop, abstract beatmaking, down-tempo
Most Similar: Daedelus, Four Tet
Sounds...
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Thee Mighty Fevers Rage and Roll in Kobe
Name: Thee Mighty Fevers, AKA One of the best names for a trashy garage punk band ever
Where They're from: Kobe, Japan
When They started: 2010
Genre: Rock 'n'...
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Checkpoint: The Birth of the Japanese Mixtape… Who’s Got Next
Words by Dexter Thomas.
It's hard to believe that just a few years ago, the Japanese hip-hop scene—made and created by Japanese artists— was almost unimaginable....
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The Elusive Charm of Tokyo’s Shugo Tokumaru
Name: Shugo Tokumaru
Where he's from: Tokyo, Japan
When he started: 2003
Genre: Indie-folk, indie-pop
Most Similar: The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, New...
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Amiaya Killed J-Pop, Long Live Tokyo Pop
Words and Interview by By Robert Michael Poole.
At Thailand’s Big Mountain Music Festival in Khao Yai, a few hours north of Bangkok, thousands of locals perch on a...
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Sekai No Owari Says The End is Near
Words and Interview by Miko Uno.
What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase “End of the World”? Disaster? Darkness? Sadness? If there was a perfect score or...
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ZZZ’s Post-Punk Noise Wakes Up Japan
Name: ZZZ's
Where They’re From: Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
When They Started: 2012
Genre: Post-Punk Garage Noise
Most Similar:Le Butcherettes, Eddy...
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Top 10 Reasons Why We Are So, So Ready for 2013
2012, let's not even get into it. You are over and we are really fine with that. Barack Obama got re-elected and, hopefully, we'll never have to think about Mitt...
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Tweak the Playlist: 8 Festive Tunes to Light Up Your Holiday…or Not
Words by Caitlin Tremblay.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for music. Everything is low-pressure, festive and fun. Some artists release albums full of...
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RANL, Queen of the Virtual Rap Barbies?
Words by Dexter Thomas.
Nowadays, everybody wants to play Barbie.
Every week, it seems like there's some new female artist with pink hair, donning doll clothes. I...
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London’s Bo Ningen Plays Wicked Japanese Psych-Rock
Name: Bo Ningen
Where They’re From: England via Japan
When They Started: 2007
Genre: Psychedelic rock
Most Similar: Gezan
They may live in London and sing...
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This Dude is Nuts. World, Russia’s Proxy Has Arrived.
We interviewed Dim Mak's new signee (and first-ever Russian act) Proxy, and apparently he is an evil robot. Or the prophet of the revolution. Either way, he sort of...