Tagged: Japan
Interview: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, the cherubic Japanese pop star behind some of the world’s most bizarre music videos, performed in New York for the first time this weekend. Read a review of that concert here, a … read more »
Live: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu in New York
Read our interview with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu here. I first wrote about Kyary Pamyu Pamyu in 2011, when the 18-year-old Harajuku street model released her debut music video for “Pon Pon Pon.” Produced and written … read more »
Video: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, “Furisodation”
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, the far-out Japanese pop singer I described only barely exaggeratedly in a recent essay as “the most exciting person making music and the new artist I care more than anyone about,” released … read more »
Melbourne’s Pet Shop Girls Imports Japanese Fashion
A little store in Melbourne exclusively carries the coolest Tokyo designers. Despite being a hub of avant-garde fashion and a Petri dish of super-wild street style, it’s still famously difficult to purchase clothing from Tokyo … read more »
Video: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, “Fashion Monster”
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu returns with another wonderful and befuddling video for new single “Fashion Monster,” her first-ever venture into rock, written by longtime collaborator Yasutaka Nakata. The clip, for some reason not viewable in HD, … read more »
Yayoi Kusama: The Priestess of Polka Dots
Yayoi Kusama’s captivating autobiography, Infinity Net. Yayoi Kusama has been making conceptual, “obsessive” art for well over a half-century. Since emigrating from Japan in the late ’50s and bursting quietly onto the New York avant-garde … read more »
Stream: Four Tet, “Moma”
On the heels of his Live at the South Bank collaboration with Mats Gustafsson and the late Steve Reid, as featured in FADER #77, fan of working together, Four Tet, is preparing to release “Moma,” … read more »
Around the World With A-Trak: Thankful for Exceptional People
Hi internet! I feel like writing again. Will you humor me and read my musings? Even in this “click-through” age, can I still write more than 500 words? I hope so because it’s helping me … read more »
Meet Three of Tokyo’s Top Designer-Artists
Photo by Takuya Shima With the English-speaking public’s view of Japan still stuck on underdressed schoolgirls and oversized robots, it’s been easy to miss the new generation of Japanese creatives reshaping art and design. We … read more »
Respect Yourself: “PONPONPON”
Duncan Cooper spends a lot of time on the internet. Every other Monday, he pays tribute to the hours spent with original video and audio a short essay. This week he celebrates his favorite song … read more »
