Spoilt for choice by the number of excellent releases in July, there is a Japanese album…

In bare terms, city pop was, like Shibuya-kei or kayokyoku, simply the name given to…

June has been another month of pitches for summer blockbusters and teasers towards oncoming albums.…

While not necessarily a busy month for Japanese releases in general, June has had more…

May has been a particularly great month for Japanese rock, in its many different forms.…

Whether in search for a summer anthem or teasing towards a September release (traditionally ripe…

While the outside world has ground to a halt but, Japanese artists continue to release new…

A lot of the world may have ground to a halt but, for now at…

Seeing as so many of us are finding ourselves spending far more time inside than usual…

Seeing as so many of us are finding themselves spending far more time inside than…

In the relatively short amount of time between Shibuya-kei’s beginning and end (that is, from…

One might expect the best Japanese music releases from February to be rather love-obsessed but,…

One might expect the best Japanese music releases from February to be rather love-obsessed but,…

For a genre heard of by so few, math rock (or at least the ideas…