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.

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 ...

Zac Farro Channels Japanese City Pop and American Metropolises on ‘City Talk’ Catching up with the songsmith, multi-instrumentalist and producer ahead of the release Cole Villena Nov 15, 2023 ...

Alt-R&B artist Keshi made a long-anticipated return with the release of two new singles inspired by Japanese city-pop. The tracks are a first look into Keshi's new album, "REQUIEM," due out on ...

City pop has always been a particularly weird viral phenomenon. As Cat Zhang previously wrote for Pitchfork, the genre originally pulled from American styles like funk and yacht rock and aimed for a ...

One of the latest and perhaps most chilling AI invasions involves city pop, the amorphous genre of glitzy late ’70s and ’80s Japanese pop music that became an online obsession in the West in ...