Powered by Max Banner Ads I have had the recent pleasure of coming into contact with Dave “Yigytugd” Smith over the past week. I must say that this guy has a gift for doing things with Asian pop music that I thought were not possible. I asked him several questions to provide my readers with an insight towards his love of Asian pop culture. Do not forget to subscribe to his...

Asian Hip Hop Artists Drunken Tiger, Bizzy,  Dynamic Duo, Dabo, King Ghidorah, etc… I can go on and on with these hip hop names from both Korea and Japan as lately there just seem to be more and more out there. However, I will stick to the ones that I like the best… ad since this website is devoted to Kpop and Jpop I will briefly cover both Korean hip hop and Japanese hip hop. Here i...

Perfume Triangle By IAN MARTIN In a pop industry where music is usually a mere marketing tool to help sell an idol’s image, Japan’s busiest producer, Nakata Yasutaka, has pulled off a rare success by the way his music utterly subsumes the identities of Perfume’s three female members, turning them simply into girl-shaped robotic campaign dolls for his trademark brand of electropop...

Kimura Kaela By DANIEL ROBSON Is Kimura Kaela trying to bag Harry Potter as a boyfriend? First she dresses up as a pixie for the sleeve of 2006′s single “Magic Music”; then a year later she names a single after Samantha Stephens, the foxy sorceress from American sitcom “Bewitched”; and now this, her fifth album, bears the name “Hocus Pocus.” Bono got an ho...

Ayumi Hamasaki Next Level Next Level is the tenth studio album (eleventh overall) by Japanese singer-songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki, released by Avex Trax on March 25, 2009 in Japan. It was released as a CD only version, a CD+DVD version, and a limited edition 2CD+DVD version with the second CD containing live songs taken from her New Year’s Countdown concert. Additionally, it is the first albu...

  (Island Def Jam/Universal) Reviewer: JO TIMBUONG UTADA Hikaru looks like a wide-eyed Eskimo on the cover of her latest album This is the One. If you think this remark is harsh, well, be prepared for more. Utada - This is the one You don’t need the IQ of a rocket scientist to see that I’m really disappointed with this effort. Yes, the album had a No.1 debut in Japan but, in my opinion, it s...