You’ve heard of digital music on demand. Now here comes vinyl-on-demand. Musicians who want to press their music into plastic might want to check out Qrates.com (pronounced Crates), a new Japanese ...

In 2025, life imitates digital art. When a cohort of vintage Japanese pop songs went viral on YouTube throughout the 2010s, city pop and J-pop went from an absolutely underground interest of a select ...

For serious record hunters, a brightly colored little cart that’s rolling into a downtown L.A. shop for about two weeks will be a treasure of a find. It will be filled with rare vinyl straight out of ...

Side A of the record includes the original Japanese opening theme song of the 1997 Pokemon anime series, “Mezase Pokemon Master.” It is performed by the Japanese voice actor for Ash (Satoshi in Japan) ...

People like vinyl records again, especially in Japan, where Sony Music is set to restart production after a nearly 30-year hiatus. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com.

Equipment Room is a basement cocktail bar inspired by Japanese jazz kissas. In the basement beneath Hotel Magdalena, in Downtown Austin, Texas, Equipment Room is a space dedicated to the art of ...

Rough Trade has announced its top 100 albums of 2021, led by Dry Cleaning’s debut New Long Leg. To celebrate, the indie retailer is selling exclusive vinyl pressings tied to the top 20 albums on its ...

On an evening in Tokyo, one might slip into one of that city’s vinyl bars, where music-loving proprietors play selections from their collections of records while customers sip their Suntory. Here in L ...

Curated from high quality live recordings made as the band toured Japan including Shizuoka, Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe, War’s Live In Japan 1974 is a killer package. The new live album by legendary ...