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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...