an allegorical minefield for the morbidity and bloodiness of our hedonistic modern existences. No one nails that like Japanese Breakfast.

Michelle Zauner, who fronts the band, has done a lot since their previous album. She’s written a best-selling memoir in ...

It would be too easy to shunt indie-pop idea machine Japanese Breakfast’s records into categories — here’s the sad one, the science fiction one, the happy one — especially given the title ...

This is the official album art for Japanese Breakfast’s “For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women).” Japanese Breakfast stepped into the sunlight, seemingly for the first time ever, after the release of ...

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast at the 2023 Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California. Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images After nearly 15 years in music, Michelle Zauner of ...

By Ethan Millman It’s been a long four years, but Michelle Zauner’s beloved indie pop act Japanese Breakfast is finally back with For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), the band’s fourth ...

Michelle Zauner turned a lifelong rumination on loss into a cinematic capsule in Japanese Breakfast‘s “Picture Window” music video. “I wanted this video to feel like a short film,” the ...

Last week, Japanese Breakfast leader Michelle Zauner explained why the movie adaptation of her memoir Crying In H Mart went into development hell, after she wrote the screenplay and a director was ...

So when Zauner, who spearheads the shoegazey indie-rock band Japanese Breakfast, began crafting her forthcoming album, it was liberating. “The moment that you put on this pressure to achieve ...