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Mrs. GREEN APPLE Is First Act in J-Pop History to Hit 10 Billion Total Streams billboard.com/music/music-ne…

After knowing one another for over a decade, コムアイ KOM_I and 食品まつりa.k.a foodman aka Foodman came together to create one of 2025's wildest releases. I talked to the pair about "FANI MANI," J-reggae and much more The Japan Times japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/0…

japan timesにコムアイちゃんとのコラボEP「FANI MANI」についてのインタビューが掲載されました📰 インタビュアーはパトリックさん ⁦Patrick St. Michel⁩ 🙏 An interview about the colla EP “FANI MANI” with Kom_I has been published in The Japan Times japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/0…

Time for our monthly Bandcamp roundup! Excellent new releases from Japanese artists including: Hasami Group (青木龍一郎) 𝐂 𝐑 𝐙 𝐊 𝐍 𝐘 F!C!O! Isiliel Hizuo & AWZ Lil Tozan (NC4K) perfect young lady HowlingCalling Cats of Steinlen scrmbl.com/post/japan-ban…

Part philosophy and part performance, Kom_I’s return to music — with Foodman in tow — taps into "silly party energy." ebx.sh/GKZDCS

Part philosophy and part performance, Kom_I’s return to music — with Foodman in tow — taps into "silly party energy." ebx.sh/YejdXx

In the words of Patrick St. Michel, "Everything is AKB." But yeah, the first thing that came to my mind when I read this was Japanese karaoke culture where the song has to be vocally easy enough where anyone can sing it

Pope Leo signed this guy's Popplio Pokémon card. The original Japanese language name for this Pokémon is Ashimari (アシマリ), so this joke only works with the English localization of its name.

It's officially "Gontiti Summer" around these parts

The new Real X Tech Lawson location is a flashy experiment that hypothesizes the future of Japanese convenience stores. Patrick St. Michel checked it out and gives his impressions on the experience, and if it's actually the future of convenience. scrmbl.com/post/real-x-te…

uami (靉) shares their first full-length album in four years, plus new music from kaza DJ SEKIS and many more in this week's roundup mbmelodies.substack.com/p/make-believe…

I went to the "future Lawson" for scrmbl to see the convenience of tomorrow. I came away...mixed, but entertained by a robot raccoon dog scrmbl.com/post/real-x-te…

Drunk on a summer weeknight? You know what we’re blasting summereye.bandcamp.com/album/good-luc…

D. League's 2025 championships demonstrated the potential that dance has in the world of high-level professional sports with all the skill, spectacle, and fan excitement one would expect. Patrick St. Michel provides his impressions from the event. scrmbl.com/post/d-league-…