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Willful Creature

Willful Creature

Writer Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

On stage, Yuki Chikudate’s energy threatens to overwhelm her petite frame. She tosses her head in a trancelike rapture, hands dancing on the keyboard. In another moment, Chikudate takes over the drums to...

Priscilla Totiy... | Wed, Jan 23rd- 11:40am | Asobi Seksu, Music, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012, Music
Clap Your Hands to the Geek

Clap Your Hands to the Geek

Adam Warrock — the Korean American attorney turned pop culture-obsessed rapper who won 2011’s Kollaboration Atlanta, the city’s annual Asian American talent show — is nothing if not hard to define. Whether rapping about This American Life’s Ira...

Sylvie Kim | Tue, May 8th- 3:43pm | Music, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011
CD Review: Jane Lui, "Goodnight Company"

CD Review: Jane Lui, "Goodnight Company"

Jane Lui
Goodnight Company
Self-released
janelui.com

Margot Seeto | Tue, Aug 16th- 11:54am | Music, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011, Music, Reviews
CD Review: Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, "Further She Wrote"

CD Review: Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, "Further She Wrote"

Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Further She Wrote
Self-released on Moving Earth Productions LLC
yellowgurl.com

Cynthia Brothers | Fri, Jul 29th- 1:52pm | Music, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011, Music, Reviews
CD Review: Caroline, "Verdugo Hills"

CD Review: Caroline, "Verdugo Hills"

Caroline
Verdugo Hills
Temporary Residence
carolinelufkin.com

If you're an escapist, you probably favor songs that create their own space, molding sounds into...

Ryan I. Miyashiro | Mon, Jul 18th- 11:37am | Music, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011, Music, Reviews
CD Review: Smith Westerns, "Dye It Blonde"

CD Review: Smith Westerns, "Dye It Blonde"

 

Dye It Blonde
Fat Possum
fatpossum.com/artists/smithwesterns

Since the rise and fall of The Strokes...

Lyle Matsuura | Thu, Sep 8th- 11:03pm | Music, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011, Music, Reviews
Do You Miss Me?

Do You Miss Me?

Writer Dino-Ray Ramos

THERE WAS ONCE A TIME when the soul and R&B music scene wasn't dominated by precocious, hair-whipping preteens, leggy Caribbean beauties and fedora-topped, sneaker-wearing crooners with sharp suits and even...

Dino-Ray Ramos | Fri, Jul 29th- 1:52pm | Classified Records, Filipino American music, Jocelyn Enriquez, Joyo Velarde, Kai, pop music, R&B, Music, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011, Music
CD Reviews

CD Reviews

Best Coast
Crazy for You
Mexican Summer
myspace.com/bestcoast

The teaming of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno as Best Coast joins high talent with lo-fidelity. Cosentino is formerly of the experimental drone-...

Margot Seeto | Fri, Jan 7th- 1:01pm | Music, Issue 22: Throwback - Winter 2010, Music, Reviews
Passport to the Unexplored

Passport to the Unexplored

Emi Meyer’s sound is unique in the Japanese music circuit, a bilingual cross between Norah Jones and Japanese alternative singer-songwriter UA.

Emily Leach | Fri, Mar 18th- 2:17pm | Music, Issue 22: Throwback - Winter 2010, Music
True Rock of Ages

True Rock of Ages

Acrassicauda, hailed as the first heavy metal band from Iraq, and Hypernova, known as the premier rock band out of Iran, embody the true nature of what it is to be rock, to stay true to one’s art no matter what the circumstances.

Margot Seeto | Mon, May 16th- 5:12pm | Music, Issue 22: Throwback - Winter 2010, Music
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