Accompanied by Angeleno rapper Bambu, the Seattle-based hip-hop duo Blue Scholars, is headlining their first national tour for the release of their new album Cinemetropolis. The cinema-themed album was produced by Persian American DJ Sabzi with lyrics by Filipino American MC Geologic. The album features songs covering day-to-day topics such as food and love to more [...]

I was marinating in my long time friend’s raves about jazz band Pink Martini during our bi-monthly double-date at The Corner Place Korean BBQ House in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Living in Seoul together, we had both missed the atmosphere of smoke, clanking soju bottles, and the jib jab busy sounds of Korean. It was at [...]

In our fall issue, we told you that Hello Kitty would be celebrating her big Three-Five with a special exhibit at Royal/T in Culver City, Calif. Well, the exhibit is live now, with a kicking premiere party attended by Kimora Lee Simmons and her two daughters, Ming Lee and Aoki Lee, and a bunch of [...]

Kaila Yu is the lead singer of the Asian girl band Nylon Pink. As they like to say, they sound like “Hello Kitty on acid.” So it makes sense that if Yu is going to venture out into jewelry design for her line Hello Drama, you’d expect nothing less than punked-out cuteness. With a penchant [...]

Judging from their latest music video, the New York-based indie rock band, PaperDoll, is having a hard time concentrating; but not the least bit of trouble entertaining.  This comes as no surprise, as PaperDoll is known for their uninhibited, high-energy live shows. Back from their six-city, seventeen-show tour of China, PaperDoll released their latest music [...]