Category Archives: Music

More good music: Renee Sebastian

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Ernie

Meet Renee Sebastian – a Filipino-American wife and mother who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She majored in Computer Science in college. Just your typical Asian American living in the Bay, right? Wrong. Because Renee Sebastian is also … Continue reading →

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POP 88 #17 – The COMEBACK Show

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Xxxtine

What seems like an eternity, I’m back with a new show with new music from artists who’ve recently ‘Comeback’ to the spotlight this year. Music from Andy from Shinhwa, Jewelry, Namie Amuro and Toshinobu Kubota. Also I review the recently … Continue reading →

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Conversation with Kina Grannis

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Ben

A while back, I got the chance to interview the lovely Kina Grannis, on behalf of 8Asians. She is one of Interscope’s newest artists ever since winning the Dorito’s Crash the Superbowl contest. The conversation itself covers everything from some … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Asian-American music industry

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Xxxtine

I remember long ago when I worked at an Asian North American lifestyle magazine and co-hosted an Asian music radio show the amount of CDs I would receive and cringe having to listen to in order to review them. Some … Continue reading →

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Should Asian Kids Be Forced To Play Music?

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Ernie

So, were you forced as a kid to play the piano or the violin? And more importantly, would you pass that onto your kids? Niniane was, and she didn’t like it one bit: The merits of learning a musical instrument … Continue reading →

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Story of a City: The Shanghai Restoration Project’s New Album

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Ernie

I first blogged about Dave Liang’s The Shanghai Restoration Project last May. Well, thanks to Arjan’s music blog ArjanWrites.com, a free MP3 of “Preface” is available for download from The Shanghai Restoration Project’s follow-up album, Story of a City. I … Continue reading →

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Jero, Just Your Typical African-American Enka Singer

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Ernie

Jerome White, Jr. – Jero for short – is a 26-year old African American originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Oh, and he’s also a popular enka singer in Japan. I’d write more, but TokyoMango puts it better: …He’s a quarter Japanese, … Continue reading →

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Who is Asia Cruise? A Pretty Good Pop/R&B artist, actually

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Ernie

The relatively anonymous illadub sent me an e-mail telling me about Asia Cruise, a multi-ethnic [Asian, Native American, White] Jacksonville Pop/R&B artist signed onto Jive Records. The way she was marketed was interesting – her music was leaked first onto … Continue reading →

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YouTube Fridays: 天上智喜 aka CSJH The Grace

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Xxxtine

File this under NOSE BLEED. Definition (in case you, like Ernie, didn’t get this reference.) Nose Bleed – characterization in anime of (generally males) getting hot and bothered … and then some. In a continuing effort to sex up this … Continue reading →

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Asia Pop TV: James Sun’s new venture

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Xxxtine

I’ll admit, I’m fairly out of the loop when it comes to North American television, however, Apprentice Series 6 runner up, James Sun recently taped what he calls an Asian Pop Culture show, K POP. K … several things jump … Continue reading →

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Help Kina! – Part Deux

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Ben

Remember how Kina Grannis was looking to cross the semi-finals? Well she has and it’s now down to three. So until January 27th, each day, there’s a vote. While you might be voting already, she’s got the look and voice … Continue reading →

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The Shanghai Restoration Project

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Ernie

After surfing Arjan Writes (one of my favorite blogs about pop music, highly recommended, by the way) I stumbled across the the page for Dave Liang from the Shanghai Restoration Project. What, a Chinese American AND he makes electronica music? … Continue reading →

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