Velvet Crush's new Soft Sounds probably incorporates too much feedback to qualify as lite rock, but the title should be taken seriously. For their group's fifth proper album, venerable power-pop ...

Michelle Zauner, who writes music under the moniker Japanese Breakfast, was born in Seoul, Korea, but grew up right here in Eugene. “I feel like I got my start there,” Zauner tells Eugene Weekly over ...

When Japanese Breakfast first emerged into the world, it was to deal with the loss of Michelle Zauner’s mother. The solo project from Little Big League singer Zauner mourned with impeccable pop style ...

Buy a print copy of the Japanese Breakfast and Tierra Whack issue of The FADER, and order a poster of Japanese Breakfast's cover here. Michelle Zauner is in the middle of reading one of my stories ...