16 – Jannine Weigel, mree, Yung Koconut, The Sweet Hurt, Mike-Dash-E, Yultron, Maribelle, Big-Pete & More

It’s been a busy day so let’s just cut to the chase. It’s Tuesday, we have new music to share, hence New Music Tuesday. Fire up your music app of choice, plug in your favorite earphones, and enjoy the following 9 releases. K, bye. [Single] Jannine Weigel – “Finish Line” Pop/R&B Get It: Amazon, Google Play, […]

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Utada Hikaru’s Mother, Fuji Keiko, Leaps to Her Death

It’s always tough to share bad news. We’ve seen Japanese singer, Utada Hikaru, go through a number rough patches over the past few years but this is likely the toughest event yet. It’s been reported that a few days ago on August 22nd, Utada’s mother, Fuji Keiko, jumped from the 13th floor of her condominium […]

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Lookin’ Back: Utada Hikaru – “Easy Breezy” (2004)

I can’t believe seven years has passed since Utada Hikaru‘s US debut, “Easy Breezy” off her album Exodus. By this point in her career Utada was already an extremely successful pop star in Japan, and her partnership with Island Def Jam for her US debut held a lot of promise and anticipation for a lot […]

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Utada Interview w/ PopMatters

PopMatters has a new interview with Utada Hikaru. It’s a quick read but touches upon a lot of different subjects including her US debut in 2004, how she’s doing things different now and the inspiration behind some of her music. Our very own Music4UrSoul will be in attendance at Utada’s show in SF this weekend so […]

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Lookin’ Back: The Top 10 Asian American Tracks From The Decade

2009 is quickling coming to an end and as part of my guest blogging gig at mtv IGGY I was asked to compile a list highlighting what I considered the top 10 tracks of the past decade by Asian Amercan artists. It took a lot of debate and even now I’m not 100% satisfied with my list by regardless I stand […]

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Utada Hikaru to Embark on US Tour

Things have been quiet for Utada since activities died down after the release of her album, This is the One. But it looks like it will all pick up again as it’s been announced she will embark on a US Tour. A couple shows have already sold out! Keep in mind she’s one of the […]

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Two Cents: Apathy Killed the Asian American Star

So I decided to give vlogging a try and I realized I talk WAY too much. I apologize for being so verbose, I’ll work on it for the future =). Anyways, the point of the video is this: Support the music you love, because we, the consumer can shape the market for Asian American musicians. Here are […]

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WTF: a-Tunes Mix Vol1 – Summer Break

This marks a special edition of Weekly Thursday Freebies as we are presenting what is hoped to be the first of many releases to come in a series uncreatively titled ‘a-Tunes Mix’. In short, the a-Tunes Mixes are going to be digital mixtapes comprised of music released by Asian/Asian-American artists here in the states. These […]

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Two Cents: All Accents Are Not Created Equal

With so many Asian artists attempting to cross over to the US music industry this year (BoA, Wonder Girls, Se7en, Utada Hikaru, etc), it goes without question that increased public awareness also brings increased scrutiny. Across the board it seems like a lot of people are commenting on how (fill in the name of an Asian artist here) […]

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WTF: Utada Hikaru – Piano Melodies

Welcome 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 […]

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