A few weeks ago, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig sat down with NPR to premiere two new songs from their upcoming album, including the dreamy “2021.” It featured Jenny Lewis and, unexpectedly, a sample ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Light In The Attic's Japan Archival Series continues with Kanky? Ongaku: ...

Visible Cloaks are known fans of 1980s Japanese ambient and environmental music, and the Portland experimental duo have announced a new full-length collaboration with ambient pioneers Yoshio Ojima and ...

With a heavy heart, I tuned into a Brexit debate on the BBC one recent evening. A mix of old Japanese ambient music I had stumbled across online was playing quietly in the background. Originally ...

Spin’s ‘Left Field’ column focuses on the latest in experimental music each month, featuring interviews with and capsule reviews of artists at the fringes of genre, sensibility, and commercial appeal.

The Japanese musician, who wasn’t widely known before his death in 2003, has become a beacon for listeners on YouTube and beyond. By Eric Ducker When listeners discover the Japanese musician and ...

Much of the nostalgic, hyper-real sounds emerging from the current wellspring of electronic music comes from a fictional, idealized Japan: vaporwave and “future funk” artists sampling buttery, ...

The late Japanese ambient maestro’s music is psychedelically heady and improvisationally homespun. A new box set collects his first seven albums for his own label, Skintone. Yokota died in 2015, at ...

As a distinct musical category, kankyō ongaku gained traction after Eno’s Music For Airports album reached Japan in 1977. Around the same time, a 1975 exhibition featuring the music of Erik Satie ...

The final compilation album that the late Jamie Tiller worked on has been released by Music From Memory (the label co-owned by Tiller, Tako Reyenga and Abel Nagengast). Released today (October 15), ...

A conversation with Michelle Zauner on making the game’s music A conversation with Michelle Zauner on making the game’s music is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The ...

Beneath the surface of sedate geisha teahouses and hushed shrines, Kyoto is a hotbed for legendary live music — here, Japan's most unique, riotous acts are set free in the city's underground clubs, ...