Last night, K-Pop queens The Wonder Girls were on So You Think You Can Dance, the American dance competition reality show that sure, played a song by BoA last June, [...]

Ryan Trecartin is an American artist whose medium can be described as YouTube. His jewel-toned five minute videos are chopped-up sprints through story-lines, hewn from the building blocks of our [...]

Second show of the tour is tonight at Vassar. Took a cab to Grand Central Station so I could catch the 2:45pm train going to Poughkeepsie. The architecture here amazes me every time I see it. Such a New York City icon.

Last night’s show at Silk Road Cafe was crazy. The “Five Points Variety Hour” is like the East Coast equivalent of Tuesday Night Café in Los Angeles. It’s all about APA representation in the arts and providing an outlet to express our voice.

I am super excited to have already snagged tickets to FELA!, the Broadway musical based on the life of revolutionary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. Not only because the opening that [...]

It is so incredibly good to be back in New York! In many ways I’m an East Coast kid at heart. Even when I was living in Chicago, I thrived off public transportation and taxis, both of which are lacking in LA. Walking around the city today, looking for a hat for my head, and getting ready for tonight’s show at The Five Points Variety Hour Silk Road Cafe…

Conflict and turmoil usually make for great music, and Taiwanese-American Dawen is no exception. In he debut album American Me, he sang about navigating the frequently difficult terrain he faces [...]

American underground music seems to exist on two levels. On the one, there’s the (mostly) white indie scenester bands that have been lumped together yet make sounds as various as [...]

Right before Thanksgiving break, acclaimed Japanese movie director Koki Mitani and superstar Shingo Katori of SMAP came to the big apple for the first musical run of Talk Like Singing. [...]

This is the result of the video shoot that went down earlier this year and is probably the realest thing I’ve seen in a while. “Lovely to Me (Immigrant Mother)” is [...]

Snoop Dogg’s latest video featuring Quest Crew along with a cameo appearance from FM dropped a few days ago. I know I’m a little bit late to the party but [...]

Born in Ethiopia, raised in Virginia Beach, vocalist and keyboard savant Kenna has been around. Nominated as an MTV Breakthrough artist, written-up in the bestseller Blink, he hasn’t dropped a [...]

M. Night Shyamalan was there. Jennifer Hudson sang to rousing applause. And author Jhumpa Lahiri listened to A.R. Rahman. No, this wasn’t the Oscars — it was a State Dinner [...]

Walrus TV got all up in David Choe’s business and made the world-famous street artist take them through his designs. His whale, his line-drawn faces, his cartoonish imaginings are about [...]

Cited by James Brown as one of the originators of funk, Nigerian visionary Fela Kuti was not who his parents thought he would be — a doctor, educated in Britain. [...]

This past Saturday saw some pretty huge crowds outside JYP Entertainment’s New York City headquarters.  At times lines filled the sidewalk, they snaked down and around the block.  The main [...]

AJ & Kina teamed up for this beautiful cover of the song ‘Two is Better Than One’ by Boys Like Girls x Taylor Swift. Some other talented folks like Victor Kim, [...]

When Tim Gunn, the host of the American reality TV show Project Runway visited the family of finalist fashion designer Irina Shabayeva, he gave a toast that viewers hadn’t heard on any previous episode: “To the American Dream!” Born in the Republic of Georgia, Irina’s family immigrated to the United States when she was young and Shabayeva studied fashion at New York City’s prestigious Parsons School of Design, graduating in 2003.

This weekend was the American Music Awards, and you can check our post to learn all about the winners and the zaniest onstage performances as well as video clips. But [...]

More partying. At night we hit up a spot called Trinity where our boy DJ Phase and Eric Tyler from KISS 106.1 were spinning that night. Phase and the other [...]