Fresh off their first world tour, the seven-piece are ushering in a new era for Japanese pop music, in which all artists rise up together
Jul 15, 2025
The Japanese girl group f5ve discuss working with BloodPop, smashing Asian music stereotypes, and reaching a new global audience ahead of the release their debut album, SEQUENCE 01
Mar 06, 2025
In a rare English interview, the pop sensation reflects on her ‘traumatic’ rise to fame, working on Hideaki Anno’s Evangelion franchise, and her crush on Megan Thee Stallion
Jun 11, 2021
CHAI is the Japanese girl group rejecting 'kawaii'
Jun 05, 2019
Before their North American tour, including a performance at Coachella, we travel to rural Japan to meet the pioneering girl group phenomenon
Jan 15, 2019
We meet KOM_I of oddball Japanese group Wednesday Campanella before they play Hong Kong’s Clockenflap and Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festivals
Oct 18, 2017
FEMM, FAKY and Yup’in talk to us about the meaning of their new track, with the video premiering on Dazed
Mar 23, 2017
Though it was born in Chicago and inspired rave culture in the UK, acid house’s influence spread all around the world – and nowhere took to it better than Japan
Dec 06, 2016
Beckii Cruel became an unlikely celebrity in Japan after a viral video shot her to fame when she was just 14 years old, but today she’s a different sort of role model for teenage girls
Jul 27, 2016
We meet with the eccentric Japanese pop singer in London as she releases a new compilation celebrating five years at the top
Jul 20, 2016
Online sensation and PC Music signee is the multi-disciplinary artist moonlighting as a fashion photographer – see how she masterminds her hyperreal world
Feb 12, 2016
Featuring a pro-wrestler flanked by two teenage girls, the ‘kawaiicore’ trio are making waves with their song about Japanese products
Jul 09, 2015
The anti-girlgroup talk about their opening slot for Lady Gaga and starting a new movement in J-pop
Jul 23, 2014