New J-Pop World Interviews

Our list of interviews with Japanese groups and related artists is growing each week. Checkout the lineup so far:

Yoshida Brothers - modern masters of the Shamisen.

Gina Hiraizumi - Japanese-American actress turned singer.

Kaila Yu - the lead singer of Nylon Pink and MySpace superstar.

The Crab Bubbles - Dale and Chiha Richard's group.

Kiyomi - a singer and songwriter from New York.

The Moist Towelettes - 2 Canadians and 2 Japanese singers.

Petty Booka - A Hawaiian style Japanese duo.

Rayna - an up and coming Japanese singer, dancer and model.


Linus of Hollywood - He wrote Puffy's song Kimi ga Suki as
well as Kaela Kimura's hit Magic Music.


Merrymakers - See what Anders Hellgren and David Myhr had to say
about writing and producing music for Puffy.

Butch Walker -
Read about Butch Walker's songwriting for Puffy and which of them he has had a crush on.

Puffy AmiYumi World now part of J-Pop World

Puffy AmiYumi World is now a part of J-Pop World - a new kind of Japanese music website.

There are already several excellent Japanese music websites out there but J-Pop World will be something unique. Rather than providing a small amount of info and news on a large number of Japanese groups we will provide lots of info and interactive features on a few featured artists.

Each featured artist will have its own site with an extensive biography,
a complete listing of all their CDs and DVDs, picture galleries, games, polls, discussion forums and a separate page for each of the group's songs. Song pages will include lyrics, song samples and as much information as I can find. In other words - just about anything you could think of to spark interest in the group among English speaking music lovers.

Our first completed featured artist site is for the duo Puffy AmiYumi. Puffy AmiYumi World is the internet's most popular unofficial website dedicated to Puffy with over 200 pages of info including the internet's most active discussion forum for Ami and Yumi.

There are currently two other featured artist sites under construction with more to come: Kaela Kimura World and GO!GO!7188 World.

We will also have profiles on other j-pop groups, songwriters and producers as well as interviews, featured articles, polls and a discussion forum to let our readers give input on which group should get the next full site.

So keep checking back as we grow and add new features.