Musician-creator Amanda Nolan split her childhood between Nashville and Tokyo but didn’t really discover the genre until a few years ago, when Miki Matsubara’s 1979 “Stay With Me” was resurrected and ...
We're presenting a preview of Maximum Fun's newest show Primer. In its debut season, music writer Yosuke Kitazawa (PBS SoCal, Light in the Attic)... Primer: What is Japanese City Pop? We're presenting ...
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 ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The highly anticipated Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie ...
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 ...