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Welcome to Summer Songs Week, where we attempt to stave off the heat that’s slowly killing us all with beachy,…

Jaurim is one of Korea’s longest-running bands, having officially debuted in 1997—and active in the indie community…

Nine Muses is one of those groups that exist in that uncomfortable grey area between success and failure: never…

If your exposure to K-Pop so far has only been through title tracks and their accompanying music videos, you’re…

Red Velvet is very quickly becoming one of my favorite groups, and Power Up might just be their best song yet.

I’m A Loner is an uncommonly good debut track, and it set the tone for CNBLUE’s rise as one of the premier rock…

Ten years ago, before Twice and Red Velvet and Girls’ Generation and 2NE1 and Wonder Girls, there was Jewelry.

Block B’s rapper Zico has had one of the more interesting careers for a mainstream K-Pop artist. He actually got his…

The last time I featured Twice, I asked someone to wake me when they decided to show some progression in their…

Korean girl group concepts exist along a spectrum of cute to sexy. There are outliers, and a group may move up or…

K-Drama soundtracks are often hidden gems for picking out great K-Pop tracks. And when said K-Drama in question is ab…

Along with Wonder Girls and Girls’ Generation, KARA was one of the most iconic girl groups active in Korea in the…

If I followed any random group of young Koreans to a karaoke room in the late 2000s, I would bet my bottom dollar…

If Where’s Waldo? crossed with K-Pop sounds intriguing, this is for you. My Copycat is one of the most wildly…

One of the more interesting quirks of K-Pop is the brand endorsements. Many of these deals between brands and…

Bangkok City is probably Orange Caramel’s least-known single, which is a crying shame; it’s one of their best, and…

This is Orange Caramel week, an entire week dedicated to discussing one of the more fascinating girl groups to ever…

We’re doing something a little different today. Please enjoy this 1984 ballad while you continue to read the rest of…

One dreary Saturday morning in New York, I shuttled across the river into New Jersey for what can be best described…

We’ve shared two songs from Girls’ Generation before, and if you’re internally complaining that I seem to have a…