Other notable deaths in June include Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima ... A singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-album-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known for such ...

Ko Tanaka, the first Off-Broadway Japanese composer known for his fusion of jazz with American musical theater and Japanese musical traditions, is composing a ballet rendition of the ...

Although Mary Halvorson leads the sextet Amaryllis on About Ghosts, instrumentally, she does not place her guitar to the fore. The first time her playing really leaps out on her new album is during ...

Detroit-raised jazz wunderkind Endea Owens—a key player in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s band—is ready for her Westchester close-up.

Dragon Heart – Adventures Beyond This World will later be available to rent on all U.S. digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms, as well as on DVD, through Freestyle Digital Media.

Japanese-American musician Mei Semones on her debut album 'Animaru' and her rare, effortless blend of the two languages in her songwriting.

Mei Semones bridges two cultures through her music, blending Japanese and English lyrics into a sound that’s entirely her own. “I’ve always been bilingual — since I was a baby — so it ...

Mei Semones, The FADER's newest GEN F star, talks her debut album Animaru, singing in Japanese, and her bossa nova and jazz influences.

Style & Culture Tokyo's Jazz Kissaten Are Still the Best in the World—Here Are 3 to Know These venerable listening spaces are also stylish bars and cafés where music lovers gather.

Bowers & Wilkins' new Sony and Bose beating ANC headphones are epic — but there's a tariff-shaped problem The best alternative to Sony and Bose so far ...

Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner is Inspired by Melancholy Women and Angry Men The indie musician and author is bringing a different kind of "sad girl" music to South Side Ballroom.