In the late 1990s, before algorithms defined taste, before platforms flattened culture into recommended rows of thumbnails, music discovery still relied on randomness. Napster was messy, mislabeled, ...

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Crunchyroll subscribers – all ten million-plus of them – now have access to J-Pop songs along with thousands of music videos and concerts from artists known for anime collaborations. From the classic ...

A pounding and pulsating collection of J-Pop music that has been playing on a constant loop at Walt Disney Imagineering Art Director Michael Dobrzycki’s desk for the past few months is about to become ...

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