We're revisiting it as part of our website relaunch because its themes remain as relevant and engaging as ever. City pop is a genre of Japanese popular music that was popular in the 1980s and featured ...

SUMMERS: City pop, as the genre is sometimes called ... LEW: I think it's funny 'cause, back then, in Japan in the '70s and '80s, there wasn't, like, music videos. And so just by default, a ...

When a cohort of vintage Japanese pop songs went viral on YouTube throughout ... of its audience haven’t experienced ('70s and '80s Japanese city life). That said, the series redirects this ...

Light In The Attic is releasing a third instalment in its much-loved compilation series, Pacific Breeze, devoted to Japanese city pop. The latest record, Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & ...

Now, Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1975-1987 continues ... "Boy Meets Girl," meanwhile, serves up late '80s synth-pop with a continental twist. Within a few years, the group's ...

ALBAWABA - Meet Alessandra Mussolini, the daughter of the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and a former Japanese City Pop star in the 80s! Despite being a current member of the European ...

Maybe best known for his cover art on record jackets for Japanese city pop albums in the 1980s, it’s not often he’s cited in conversation about a local restaurant opening. But Tammy Deng, the co-owner ...

The loose term ‘City Pop’ was coined in Japan in the 1990s to describe the music forged in the previous decades of prosperity and productivity for the nation, a sophisticated sound that felt vibrantly ...

In its debut season, music writer Yosuke Kitazawa (PBS SoCal, Light in the Attic) joins Christian and special guests to explore Japanese City Pop. They celebrate the lives of its artists ...

The 1988 debut feature from director and co-writer Fran Rubel Kuzui, “Tokyo Pop” brims with an infectious ... Charlie Ahearn’s “Wild Style” to Japan — Kuzui and her husband knew ...