Giant Robot – 50 Pop Culture Influentials – Part 5 Boredoms
5. Boredoms – At a time when groups like The Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, and grunge bands like Nirvana were eating up the indie airwaves, one band from Asia fit into this mix. They were the Boredoms....
View ArticleBabymetal Debuts on US TV with Stephen Colbert
In otaku-land, Babymetal has been around for years, but to many they emerged last night with their song Gimme Chocolate on their new album Metal Resistance. The gimmick is obvious and can they sustain...
View ArticleGiant Robot – 50 Pop Culture Influentials – Part 12 Eastern Youth
12. Eastern Youth – Emo indie punk rock from Japan. You can feel their pain. There are plenty of bands from Japan that have had some type of commercial success outside of their shores, and Eastern...
View ArticleSTAR WARS themes reimagined as classical Indian music arrangements
I absolutely love this. Check out this music video by The Indian Jam Project that interprets Oscar winning composer John Williams’s classic space opera film music into something truly special. The...
View ArticleThere’s BAD RAP and then there’s BROWN RAP
BAD RAP, a new documentary that chronicles four (East) Asian American rappers trying to make it in the competitive hip hop/rap scene, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival a couple of...
View ArticleRecording artist Judith Hill opens up about that fateful flight a week before...
Judith Hill, she of THE VOICE and the Oscar winning documentary 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, has opened up about the flight where Prince fell unconscious and had to emergency land to rush him to the hospital....
View Article#AAPIMusicVideoPlaylist: Tim Atlas, Rocky Rivera, Alfa, Joesph Vincent,...
A quick roundup of some music videos from the last couple months or so (either originals or covers) from a few AAPI artists**.Meiko – I DoThis was a studio behind-the-scenes video for “I Do” from...
View ArticleJapanese school girls make a musical bottle train
Only clever Japanese school girls with toy trains can do this, by constructing a train that zooms through perfectly positioned bottles to play the William Tell Overture. It’s a percussion achievement!...
View ArticleMusical Moments In Geekdom With Dom & H.P. Mendoza (Elevating The Genre Podcast)
So I have this podcast where we talk about the smartest, most elevating moments in the geekiest shit possible. This week my guest host is H.P. Mendoza, filmmaker/musician/fandude responsible for I AM A...
View ArticleAsian American Musicians Struggle to Break into Mainstream
Quick, name your top five Asian American musicians. Sadly,with the exception of a few audiophiles, many of us would have a tough time with that question. Bustle talked with a number of Asian American...
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