Wamono Nights Brings City Pop to the Dance Floor in Bishop Arts All the rage in Oak Cliff: LadyLove has a night devoted to viral vintage Japanese sounds on vinyl. By Akshaj Turebylu April 9, 2025 ...

City Pop music, a genre that accompanied Japan's economic miracle of the 1980s, is exploding in popularity decades after its upbeat synths, influenced by soft rock, boogie and soul, first hit the ...

Music + Concerts Record collectors alert: Find rare Japanese vinyl at this 2-week-only pop-up Good Boy Record Cart teams up with Japanese record store Rare Groove for a limited time pop-up in L.A.

Celebrated archival reissue label Light in the Attic (LITA) announces the latest chapter in its acclaimed Japanese City Pop series, Pacific Breeze, which delivers a mesmerizing blend of AOR, R&B ...

She’s become obsessed, posting dozens of city pop covers and using it partly as a way to connect with her Japanese family members, who recognize the music from their youth.

The viral success of “Mayonaka no Door / Stay With Me” has brought yet another surge of international interest to city pop, a loosely defined Japanese genre with R&B and jazz influences ...

He’s certainly old enough to have listened to city pop in his youth. A stickler for labels might call this one deep house, but I hear the characteristic sound of disco chords and the four-to-the ...

Primer invites both newcomers and crate diggers alike to find their next favorite album and learn more about the music they already love. In this episode of Primer, radio/tv presenter Linda ...

Tel Liyanto wasn't alive during Japan's 1980s boom, but she loves the "timeless" City Pop hits of the era, now going viral thanks to a new generation of young, international fans.