So this is a few days late but BoA appeared (briefly) on national TV this past weekend on the program ExtraTV. All of this in the same week Se7en debuted on 106 and Park. The start of a movement or a fleeting coincidence?
Read More BoA on Extra TVThe Far East Movement announced that their single ‘Animal’ from their last album will be featured in ‘Scratch: The Ultimate DJ’, a guitar hero style game by Konami. This is huge news and a testament to how big FM is getting. Congrats to them!
Read More Far East Movement in SCRATCH: The Ultimate DJ videogameManifest was recently interviewed by Hip-Hop blog Urban Decadence. He touches on everything from his faith, working with Lyricks & DJ Zo, and his upcoming projects. It’s a good read although it’s a tad short. Here’s an excerpt: and growing up, who/what influenced you down the path of hip hop? i think in middle school […]
Read More Manifest interview w/ UrbanDecadenceDumbfoundead has been making a splash all over the web with his witty and often hilarious freestyle battle videos, typically courtesy of Grindtime. I’ve only heard him on an audio release one other time (on HepDMC’s last mixtape) and it was oddly underwhelming to say the least. However I was still looking forward to hearing […]
Read More Critic’s Corner: Dumbfoundead – Fun with DumbI totally forgot about this video. I looked for it on Youtube and didn’t find it so I decided to upload it and share it with the rest of you. Here is Lena Park aka Park Jung Hyun (박정현) covering Mr. Big’s early 90’s hit ‘To Be With You’. Lena Park is a US native […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Lena Park – To Be With You (cover)Neah Lee has been relatively quiet lately but she has just announced via myspace that she will be releasing a new EP on July 4th. It’ll be good to hear new music from her. Last time around she released a single entitled Tragedy in honor of missionaries close to her that died in a tragic […]
Read More Neah Lee to release EP July 4thOne year ago today a-Tunes was born. The site has grown, lots of news has been covered, and hopefully we’ve helped bring just a little bit more exposure to the Asian and Asian-American musicians out there. This blog was started to fill a niche void, a place people can come to catch up on whats going in […]
Read More a-Tunes News: Year One in ReviewWelcome to another Weekly Thursday Freebie. This week I thought it’d be appropriate to offer a lesser known offerering of the artist that was most recently reviewed by us, Utada Hikaru. We bring you Piano Melodies. Piano interpretations of some of Utada’s earlier hits. Now I’ll be completely honest and say I have no idea […]
Read More WTF: Utada Hikaru – Piano MelodiesAn interesting spin-off event from the original Kollaboration, the Hip-Hop & Laugh-Off, is scheduled for next Friday, June 12th. Competitors include Dumbfoundead, Verseatile, tier2, 3Strykes Krew, Starstudded, Funky Soul & The Asylum. Comedians include Gery Bednob, Edwin San Juan, & Kevin Shea. You can go here for more info on them. You can read the […]
Read More Kollaboration Hip-Hop & Laugh-Off on June 12th
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