ASPEN, Colo.–The biggest life-changer for snowboard champion Ayumu Hirano since he won an Olympic gold medal: He became a father. That, as much as triple corks or big airs,...
Hundreds of fans at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, who lined up 10 deep and hoped to catch a glimpse of Shohei Ohtani as he arrived on Thursday, saw nothing of the Los...
KOSHIGAYA, Saitama Prefecture–In an online auction four years ago, Japanese dentist Yusuke Kamimura’s father purchased his first piece of Shohei Ohtani memorabilia: a rosin bag, the soft pouch containing...
BY MC GALANG Since 2018, we’ve been expanding our programming to include foreign artists at our shows and in our curated content online (e.g. THIS SIDE playlists). Last year,...
By MC Galang and Ian Urrutia Header Art by MC Galang This week was tougher than usual. It seemed like our threshold for pain incrementally increased with each report...
By MC Galang and Ian Urrutia Header Art by MC Galang Walang mahalagang hindi inihahandog Ng may pusong mahal sa Bayang nagkupkop; Dugo, yaman, dunong, katiisa’t pagod Buhay ma’y...
Words by Aldus Santos Even a cursory sweep of early press on Singapore’s Subsonic Eye will tell you they’ve been aggressively pigeonholed: dreampop this, shoegaze that; angular post-rock here,...
By Jam Pascual A reference to the goons of A Clockwork Orange would be painfully redundant at this point. It’s more fun to imagine the crew of Kapitan Kulam,...
Baseball mania reached fever pitch in Japan on Friday with public appearances of national hero Shohei Ohtani and other Japanese players set to take part in MLB season-opening games...
The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers can party like it’s 2022 on the baseball field for a few days in Japan, and even like it’s 1982 in the...