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...
Japanese star Shohei Ohtani showed off some prodigious power in his return to the Tokyo Dome on Saturday night. In an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants, the three-time...
Masanori Murakami travelled to San Francisco 61 years ago this month on his way to becoming the first Japanese player in Major League Baseball. On Tuesday, five of his...