July 11, 2012 - Based in Los Angeles, Yalla Family is an international music group of Japanese, Ghanian, Korean and Chinese artists. Their debut single "Beginning" was created with prolific hip-hop producer Fingazz as a response to Japan's 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, expressing the positive energy of the Japanese people struggling to rebuild after the disaster.

Dedicated to Drago. It seems like every three episodes or so, anime characters have a day off from school or some excuse to wear pretty kimonos in the evening and walk around booths playing carnival games in a Japanese version of a Renaissance Fair. Although this is a considerable stretch from reality given that the Japanese school year is 60 days longer than America’s, Japan does celebrate a good number of holidays.

Today, Saimoe is here, ANOTHER Isshoni project, and Sailor Moon to return to Hong Kong.

It was about time for a music update in our database, and I’ve done my best to put together what I could. If you’d like to find out if your favorite artist made the cut or not this week, then make sure to click the jump! For those somewhat confused, from now on I’ll be doing bulk updates to the database every two weeks. I’ve claimed Monday as my spot for a sort of Music Moday sort of deal, and I ...

Once again, we’d like to thank all of our fans for being patient with the drastic changes occurring with the site. Today, though, we have one of our biggest announcements to date. For almost a full year, we’ve pledged outwardly to the internet that our biggest goal was to release an online radio station. This aspiration will become a reality on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010.