For 20 years, keyboardist John “Papa” Gros has exported New Orleans music to Japan, first with the late Snooks Eaglin, then with George Porter Jr. and his own band, Papa Grows Funk. This week, he’s ...

For a decade now, the western consensus has been that Japan is an economic basket case. But this is a dramatic misreading of a perennially secretive society. Indeed, it may come to be seen as one of ...

Showa City Club is easy to miss – the unassuming shopfront sits next to a home appliances store in a rapidly changing corner of Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po neighbourhood in Kowloon. Its shelves hold a ...

Japanese boy group, Travis Japan, releases their newest single, “LEVEL UP” today via Capitol Records. Serving as the pre-release single to their debut album, Road To A, coming out on December 20th, ...

The king of the 21st century boogie funk revival, Dam-Funk will be slipping on his synth-tar and taking to the stage for a full band set at Sound Museum Vision this Friday night. Mr Funk (real name ...