Category Archives: music

Hip-hop artist Jason Chu’s spoken-word tribute to Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Powerful stuff: Hip-hop artist Jason Chu has posted “A Thousand Names,” a spoken-word tribute to Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month that’s worth seeing more than once to absorb the flow of poetry and the meaning of his words. He nails the story of family dynamics, immigrant hopes and dreams and generational passage of culture [...]

Rapper Jason Chu’s “Much Love” gets in your head

Nice work by hip-pop rapper Jason Chu. Memorable wordplay, beats and melody, and a video that appears to be one remarkably loooong camera shot following Chu from a fashion shoot in a warehouse to an alleyway.

Domino’s Pizza Japanese app features Vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku

Pretty cool: Domino’s Pizza goes all in on mobile tech wizardry — at least for its Japanese market — with a new app featuring Hatsune Miku, a Vocaloid, synthetic/anime J-pop persona that’s entirely digital. According to a new video that has Domino’s Japan CEO Scott Oelkers introducing the app, Domino’s staff came up with songs [...]