BLACKPINK & Selena Gomez In Your Area
You know it, I know it, the world knows it: BLACKPINK‘s back in our areaaa later this month – and they’re officially bringing Selena Gomez along for the ride this time around. As was…
Sunmi Hits the Disco With Her Former Boss J.Y. Park
Sunmi is no stranger to a left-lane, artsy-fartsy kind of career choice – and teaming up with her former boss, J.Y. Park of JYP Entertainment, is certainly no exception. The 28-year-old “Noir” quirk-pop princess and the 48-year-old JYP record executive are starry-eyed,…
TWICE's Online Concert: 'Beyond Live - Twice: World in a Day'
The entire world is adapting to the New Normal™ amid the pandemic – and that includes our South Korean pop favorites as well. With touring no longer an option – for at least the next year,…
SM Entertainment Launches BoA 20th Anniversary Account
The festivities in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the debut of the Queen of K-pop™ herself, BoA, continue. Ahead of the official debut date of the upside-down walking Girl on Top herself, SM Entertainment has launched an official BoA account (@BoASMTown) that promises to share more of the…
BLACKPINK Keep Teasing Their August Mystery Feature
BLACKPINK? In our area? It’s more likely than you think. The global chart-dominating, record-breaking, ddu-du ddu-duing titans of South Korean girl group pop are promptly returning to us with a follow-up to their summer smash “How You Like That” later this month, and on Monday…
BLACKPINK Announce Their Long, Long Awaited Debut Album
The Album is finally coming. No, really: it's called The Album. (The concept of The Album is, you know, the album.) Almost exactly four long years after first arriving in our area with "Boombayah," the enormously popular quartet known as BLACKPINK - Rosé, Jennie, Jisoo and Lisa - are squaring up…
The 20th Anniversary of BoA's Debut Begins With 'Our Beloved BoA'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfslE2pbmCk The year is 2020, and there is at least one good reason to celebrate amid an otherwise relentless onslaught of misery: it's the 20th anniversary of the debut of BoA, the Queen of K-Pop™ herself. On August 25, 2000, at the absurdly young age of 13, Kwon…
Red Velvet's Irene & Seulgi Get 'Naughty' With Their Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWoUUWwdqg Evidently, Irene and Seulgi have also been watching a lot of Legendary in their downtime. The lovely, touchy-feely, and occasionally creepy ladies of Red Velvet are back almost immediately after the release of their sub-unit lead single and mini-album…
Red Velvet's Irene & Seulgi Are Little Monsters (No, Not That Kind - But Maybe?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujb-gvqsoi0&feature=emb_title The ladies of Red Velvet are no strangers to a creepy concept. The morbid, near-death experience glee of "Russian Roulette," anyone? The Strangers/Us-esque eeriness of "Peek-A-Boo"? Simply put: the girls do dork-sided well. Enter Irene…
'Play': Chung Ha Feels Her Midsommar Matador Fantasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPFrHYXYxak&feature=emb_title Summer might be a bit quiet this year (unless you're selfish and cramming up against a heap of shirtless bodies on an island at night somewhere, I digress), but our beloved K-pop Queens are doing what they can to keep us entertained with…
'Feedback': BoA, Queen of K-Pop, Returns With a Nostalgic Summer Bop
BoA, Queen of K-Pop™, is back - because she's got to keep carrying the entire K-pop industry on her back. (Kidding, although I do secretly love seeing comments like that.) "Feedback" - her latest Korean single, out on Tuesday (June 4) - might as well have been called "Throwback," because that's…
'Cut It Up': Queen CL Returns to Slice & Dice Some Bitches
Queen CL, The Baddest Female™, is back at last, and she's brought a few friends (and a few sharp objects) along with her. The 28-year-old 2NE1 girl group member-turned-solo star teamed up with Japanese hip-hop collective PKCZ - that's Exile's Makidai, M-flo's Verbal and DJ Daruma - as well as "Take…