When CHAI performs live again, “END” could be their reintroduction. One of the best manifestations of their buzzing, sometimes-bananas energy on all of WINK, the Japanese band’s third and latest album ...

CHAI burst onto the scene in 2017 with all the subtlety of one of those hustling and bustling, in-your-face, neon-lit streets in Tokyo. Their music was a lively mix of pop, dance, and disco-punk. A ...

CHAI are a whirlwind of a band. The Japanese quartet of identical twins MANA and KANA, YUNA and YUUKI deal in the kind of joyful abandon that seems to be pretty absent in music these days. Known for ...

When the members of the Japanese four-piece band CHAI were younger they never would have imagined collaborating with their idols. Twins Mana and Kana along with high school pal, Yuna, and future ...

CHAI have shared another taster of their upcoming album WINK with "PING PONG!", which sees the Japanese four-piece collaborate with YMCK on the retro game-inspired track. CHAI say of the song, "We’re ...

Last year, the experimental pop quartet CHAI seemed to be gearing up for a new release. Amidst announcing that they’d signed to Sub Pop, they unveiled a handful of singles across 2020. Now, they’re ...

Japanese rock band CHAI have announced a new album, WINK, which will be released on May 21 via Sub Pop. This will be their third studio album and debut under Sub Pop, which they were signed to in ...

“You! Are! So! Cute! Nice face, c’mon, yeah!” exclaim CHAI on ‘N.E.O’, the galvanising single from the Japanese quartet’s 2017 debut album, ‘PINK’. The lyric is not just an instant festival chant, but ...

Rock, pop, punk and fun - these are some of the flavors Japanese band CHAI captures in their genre-fluid music. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PING PONG!") CHAI: (Singing) You and me, racket and ball. CHANG: ...

This Japanese quartet undercuts traditional ideas about cuteness, gender and rock bands. Its latest album, “Wink,” is arriving on Sub Pop in the United States. By Jeremy Gordon The Japanese band Chai ...

In the press release for CHAI’s third album, the title, WINK, is explained in the context of their preceding records: “After the ‘i’ of [first album] PINK and the ‘u’ of [second album] PUNK – which ...