May was a pretty busy month for yours truly, but with it’s final hours ticking away, I wanted to take a moment to share a very special project that we were involved with for AAPI Heritage Month. One of the best parts of running this site for the past 8 years has been being able […]
Read More Presenting the Official White House AAPI Heritage Month Playlist 2016Those who have an eclectic taste in music will especially appreciate this week’s round-up of new tunes. As is often the case, there are a couple releases in here that were released a little longer than a week ago but we are just making sure they don’t slip through the cracks. EDM, R&B, Pop, Hip-Hop, […]
Read More New Music Tuesday: 3/8/16 – AM Kidd, Mike-Dash-E, Mai Lee, DANakaDAN x Yellowpaco, Jason Chen x MC Jin, Steve Aoki, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Maribelle, Jackie Chain, TOKiMONSTA, YunaWe skipped last week’s video round-up, so we’re playing a little bit of catch-up here. But that just means there’s more Music Video fun to go around this time! Our inaugural MWMVRRU for the month of March 2016 is another Hip-Hop heavy release, but it shows us the variety of style and talent that Asian-American […]
Read More The Mid-Week Music Video Reviews Round-Up – 3/3/16 – TOKiMONSTA x Anderson .Paak, DANakaDAN x Yellowpaco, Jason Chen x MC Jin, AMP, August Rigo, Lyricks, Rekstizzy, Andrew Huang, Steve AokiSo it’s been a couple weeks since our last MWMVRRU post, as we decided to take it easy during the holidays. And it looks like we weren’t alone as there actually weren’t a superfluous amount of videos to catch up on since we left off. Artists are people too, after all, and we all need […]
Read More The Mid-Week Music Video Reviews Round-Up – 1/7/16 – Liane V, Jin, 28K, Jae Jin, Stevie Hoang, Jennifer ChungYea, we’re finally getting far enough through our backlog of videos where we can post round-ups of the latest and greatest. We still have some older ones to push through the mini-review batches, but we wanted to focus on the freshest releases this week. All of the following videos have dropped in the past week […]
Read More The Mid-week Music Video Mini-Reviews Round-Up – 7/23/15 – The New New EditionHAHAHA. Oh gosh. Screw the commentary, just watch. This is all you need to know: Traphik is Sun Tzu. MC Jin is Confucius. And KRNFX is Laozi. Dropping some (philosophical) knowledge.
Read More MC Jin x Traphik x KRNFX Rep the Eastern Philosophers in Epic Rap Battles of HistoryWe all know Jin can bring the punchlines. He’s spent a good chunk of his formative years testing his wit in the battle circuit. He may have left those days behind him, but he’s still managed to bring his sense of humor into his current flavor of music. But about a week ago, Jin decided […]
Read More The MC in MC Jin Now Stands for Moonlighting Comedian12 years ago, a new Ruff Ryders signee, known for his free styling abilities and winning audiences over on BET, made a cameo appearance on the 2nd installment in the Fast & the Furious series, 2 Fast 2 Furious. Jin Au-Yeung had a small role as Jimmy the Mechanic, to the delight of Hip-Hop heads and […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Jin’s Cameo in 2 Fast 2 FuriousWith SXSW firmly set in the rear view mirror, there is always so much to cover as it is always a jam-packed event. But one particularly noteworthy moment that is as a-Tunes press worthy as it could ever be is when Jin had the opportunity to reunite with an old mentor, Wyclef Jean. Clef was […]
Read More Did You Watch Jin Reunite with Wyclef at SXSW?It’s that time, this year’s Lunar New Year falls on on February 19th aka today. It seems that a number of people we frequently see in Asian-American media wanted to ring in the Lunar new year via the following clips. We at a-Tunes wish you a blessed and prosperous 2015! Wong Fu & Friends present Chinese […]
Read More This Is How the Asian-American Media Celebrates the Lunar New Year
a-Tunes 