Tel Liyanto wasn’t alive during Japan’s 1980s boom, but she loves the “timeless” City Pop hits of the era, now going viral. City Pop music, a genre that accompanied Japan's economic miracle of the ...

In 2025, life imitates digital art. When a cohort of vintage Japanese pop songs went viral on YouTube throughout the 2010s, city pop and J-pop went from an absolutely underground interest of a select ...

Light in the Attic has announced a new compilation called Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986. According to the label, the record marks the “first-ever fully authorized overview ...

Essentially, city pop is Western music that’s been adapted by the Japanese, now coming back to us as a retrospective source of fascination. The head of the internet music label Business Casual once ...

Andy Cabic was exploring the stacks in a Tower Records in Japan when he had an epiphany. The musician, who fronts the folk-rock band Vetiver, was on tour with Devendra Banhart in the mid-2000s when he ...

Japanese city pop, this retro-futuristic musical genre born in the late 1970s, continues to fascinate music lovers and curious listeners far beyond Japan. Characterized by its optimistic sounds ...