In the mid-1960s, a young Mike Nogami picked up a camera and started taking pictures of things around him — dogs, his neighborhood, friends playing guitar. Some of those friends were in a band called Happy End, the group that Haruomi Hosono played bass ...

I don't think 1980s Miami synth trap is an actual genre, but if it ever becomes one, "Max LeRoy Volume 1" is going down as one of its progenitors. Max LeRoy says he is a huge J-pop fan, but his project is driven by a ...