Tel Liyanto wasn’t alive during Japan’s 1980s boom, but she loves the “timeless” City Pop hits of the era, now going viral. City Pop music, a genre that accompanied Japan's economic miracle of the ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The highly anticipated Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1975-1987 ...

Japanese music from the 1970s and '80s seems to be having a moment in the West right now. Take the latest album from The Weeknd, which samples the 1983 Tomoko Aran track, "Midnight Pretenders." ...

Light in the Attic Records has announced the third volume in its Pacific Breeze archival series: Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1975-1987 is due out February 24. The 16-track ...

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 ...

We're presenting a preview of Maximum Fun's newest show Primer. Primer is a music podcast about translation and illumination. Host Christian Dueñas is joined by a different co-host each season to ...