Earlier this week, Shingo “Shing02” Annen should have been performing at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall with his band, the Chee-Hoos. For the past seven years, he has led “A Tribute to ...

There's a Japanese-American underground rap scene. A new song in the niche market has been released on iTunes. "Luv(sic) part 4" is by Japanese-born, Calif.-based Shingo Annen. He's also known as ...

"A Tribute to Nujabes": Go if you’re a fan of genre pushing, jazz-infused lo-fi hip hop. Go if you’re one of the young fans rediscovering that type of music for the first time on YouTube. Go, ...

Shingo Annen, known professionally as Shing02, is a seasoned Japanese hip-hop artist and producer with over two decades in the music scene. His unique sound is a reflection of his global upbringing, ...

The infamous Japanese ‘dancing ban‘ continues to make headlines, with clubs in major cities periodically getting shut down by the police for violating the fueiho or Law on Control and Improvement of ...

One evening, I walked into Fort St George—a bar that's only a few-minutes walk from the International District Link station and serves Japanese “comfort food”—and heard a hiphop track whose beauty ...

Born in Tokyo, raised in Tanzania and England, Shing02 came up in the independent SF Bay Area scene in the early '90s. Over the course of his independent career starting in 1995, he has collaborated ...

Teamed up with the dynamic Manchester-based OMA and his trusted turntable maestro Spin Master A-1, Shing02's Luv(sic) Hexalogy will come to life on stage sans samples and full of live textures that ...

Shing02’s strongest quality is as a conceptualist who uses images, lyrics and production to craft memorably esoteric ideas. Standout work like 1999’s bilingual Homo Caeruleus Cerinus and last year’s ...