Good indie music in Asia✨
Stella Donnelly has just wrapped her first Japan tour in three years, visiting Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo in April 2026 to support her third album 『Love and Fortune』, released in November 2025. Before arriving in Japan, she toured Australia, the UK, and Europe, carrying songs that are quieter and more introspective than anything she has […]
Australian singer-songwriter Harriette Pilbeam’s project, Hatchie. Her third album ‘Liquorice’ was produced with Melina Duterte’s solo project Jay Som, whom we recently interviewed. In this interview, Hatchie explicitly states that she was influenced by Jay Som’s ‘Anak Ko’, and traces of Jay Som’s DNA can be felt throughout her previous work. The change that emerged […]
BELONG Media / A-indie Editor-in-Chief yabori here. Even when listening to the same music, each person feels it differently. Moreover, if the countries and cultures people grew up in are different, those differences become even more interesting. What we’re delivering this time is a special “music cross-review” project that transcends borders! The writers are Yuuki […]
An atmosphere that doesn’t quite mesh, words you want to say but can’t. The other person’s silence inevitably drags out a scream from within you. There exists a soundtrack for such suffocating moments. The Belair Lip Bombs’ “Hey You” is a song that depicts the breakdown of communication born within intimate relationships and a yearning […]