CHAI

Exclaim! Readers Remember Their Favourite Shows of 2023

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2024

The Eras Tour was by far the biggest live music event of the year — but, as we discovered in the results to our Readers Poll, music lovers...

CHAI Announce Breakup: "NEO KAWAII IS FOREVER"

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2024

CHAI — the joyful Japanese band that melded punk, R&B and electronic pop — have announced their breakup.  In a message to fans posted on t...

CHAI Welcomed Toronto to the Bright-Pink Future

Horseshoe Tavern, October 4

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2023

"We are CHAIIIIIIIIIII!" — it's a familiar refrain for fans of the Japanese four-piece; a rallying cry, a greeting, an act of actualization...

CHAI's Self-Titled Album Is Sweet and Sticky but Never Saccharine

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2023

Japanese pop experimentalists CHAI espouse a philosophy that they call Neo Kawaii. A reference to the Japanese word for cute, Kawaii encour...

CHAI Announce New Self-Titled Album, Toronto Stop on North American Tour

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2023

The tea? Nagoya, Japan's CHAI have announced their fourth studio album, led by new single "PARA PARA." The quartet have also scheduled a fa...

Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for August 15, 2022: CHAI, Heaps, Domo Genesis

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2022

As Harry Styles prepares to make (one city in) Canada his house tonight, we've got some more in-house new music selections to share. Here,...

Superorganism's 'World Wide Pop' Is a Party and Everyone Is Invited

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2022

Superorganism seemed to have arrived from another dimension in 2018 with their wacky, hyper-collagist self-titled debut, full of woozy hook...

CHAI Share Ecstatic New Song "SURPRISE"

PUBLISHED May 3, 2022

Japanese pop masterminds CHAI have shared a joyous new single called "SURPRISE," which comes attached to a colourful, light-hearted video i...