Amid much fanfare and hoopla, the second Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremony ramped up the excitement by bringing together ...

Four years after its debut, Psychic Fever built its second full-length album around a simple idea: none of its seven members ...

SEOUL—Once considered to be a minor genre of music here, J-pop has now become music to the ears of young South Koreans.

KNOWN for her work as a model and TV personality in Japan, Yukipoyo has released “Te-Te Gyaru” across all major music platforms worldwide.

In 2025, life imitates digital art. When a cohort of vintage Japanese pop songs went viral on YouTube throughout the 2010s, city pop and J-pop went from an absolutely underground interest of a select ...

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 ...

The Japanese pop group have become global stars, after being recruited before they were teenagers.

Noriko Sekiguchi, better known as Poison Girl Friend, is behind some of the most lustrous downtempo, trip-hop, and late-night pop music in post–economic bubble Japan. The Yokohama-born artist was ...

Tokyo-based rapper and Ambush CEO Verbal disrupted Japanese pop music and launched a global fashion brand and a new saké venture, establishing himself as a cultural curator. Multi-hyphenates rarely ...