Ooowee. I’m excited. You wanna know why? Cause sextuplet band formerly known as Monsters Calling Home, Run River North, has landed a spotlight profile on NBC’s Last Call With Carson Daly. They definitely more than deserve the additional exposure, and all you savvy fans should be amused by their reference to losing Kollaboration a couple […]
Read More Did You Catch Run River North on Last Call With Carson Daly?If you’re an 80’s kid like me, or just a vintage game enthusiast and purveyor, then you’ll likely appreciate this clip. Electric violinist, David Wong, shares his take on the Mega Man 2 theme with the help of JFlo & Man Wai Che. This is one of those blast from the past type of ordeals […]
Read More Just ‘Cause: David Wong x JFlo x Man Wai CheToestah is one of those artists who kind of came out of nowhere a couple years ago and quickly established himself as one of the more consistent Hip-Hop artists that we cover. He’s spent the past month or so dropping a new track nearly every week and we’ve taken an overdue listen at the lot. […]
Read More Here Are 5 Reasons to Look Out for Toestah in 2014You’re gonna have to file this one under unexpected-but-not-unwelcomed news. Carissa Rae and her husband Michael Alvarado, collectively known as Us, were featured today on a post on BusinessInsider.com. It’s a very short article but it’s focused on the duo and their penchant for singing (super) quick covers and posting them to their Vine account. […]
Read More Us Featured on Business InsiderTwo songs that have seen a lot of covers are the ballads “Let Her Go” by Passenger and “Say Something” by A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera. Both are slow, moving, and heartfelt tunes and are prime material for a Youtube cover. So here are a number of renditions of those singles by a […]
Read More The “Say Something” & “Let Her Go” Youtube Covers Round-Up – 1/27/14We missed the mid-week point but we didn’t want to leave you without your compilation of music videos for the week. I mean how else are you going to keep up with all the Asian-American music releases? Oh… you subscribe to them on Youtube? Well… how else are you going to hear our opinions and […]
Read More The End-of-Week Music Video Mini-Reviews Youtube Round-Up – 1/24/14OK, OK, OK. It’s clear as day that Snoop is cool with the individual in Blackface make up. But even if he isn’t phased, that doesn’t make it right. South Korean media has a history of using Blackface caricatures in it’s productions, and though the cultural atmosphere is very different, I personally think it needs […]
Read More Worst Ever: Blackface in South Korea (Next to Snoop Dogg)I’m not someone who keeps up with KPOP much anymore, my interest has been slowly fading since the late 2000s, but 2NE1 is one of the groups I’ll check in on once in a while, mainly due to their inherent cross-over appeal. Now, we get a lot of press release e-mails in our inbox, but […]
Read More 2NE1 to Appear in Upcoming Episode of ABC’s The BachelorBack towards the end of last year, we shared with you the new Aziatix music video for “Baby, Let’s Go“. We noted back then that it was actually part of a Toyota Corolla advertisement campaign, explaining why the vehicle had such a prominent presence in the video. Well, the corporate partnership is still going strong […]
Read More Snapshot: Aziatix x Toyota CorollaMs Jhene Aiko getting a little national TV airtime? I’m can get on board with that. It wasn’t completely on the merits of her own solo material, but the beautiful R&B singer joined Drake for his stint on last weekend’s SNL, where she assisted for the performance of “From Time”. It was a cool, stylish […]
Read More Jhene Aiko Joins Drake for a Live Performance on SNL
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