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Imagine my surprise today when I opened Epic Seven to continue my degen gacha career and found that ex-IZ*ONE Eunbi and Rocket Punch‘s Juri were having a Produce 48 reunion …

Do you like Trance? Do you like Ayumi Hamasaki? Are you a DJ? Then you probably know what this is. To the rest of you, this year marks the 20th anniversary of 'Cyber Trance presents Ayu Trance', an official remix project commissioned by Avex to get the biggest names in trance to remix their J-Pop superstar Ms. Hamasaki. It would end up being a hugely successful and influential endeavor, leading to another 3 volumes and Ayu finding her way into DJ crates around the world. For many outside of Japan, this was the gateway into 21st century J-Pop.

SM Entertainment‘s SM Remastering Project is gonna expose a lot of … questionable choices in K-pop history, but BoA‘s 2000 debut single “ID Peace B” is not one of them. …

On November 6-7, 88rising held its third Head In The Clouds festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Postponed in 2020 as a response to the widespread …

MARY’S BLOOD‘s self-titled sixth studio album dropped on September 29, and I’ve been obsessed with it ever since. I’ve already gone over the history of the band in a previous …

*Ahem* Dearest Asian Junkie readers, I am back. That’s right, you’re not trippin’ balls … I AM BACK, BABY!!! And thus, so is concert season. Feels good, right? Shall we …

I have to hand it to Mnet, even with dogshit ratings and the walls bearing in, their ability to pull a shit-show out of a hat far exceeds any of …

We are at long last in the final lap of our hectic journey through the cosmos of Girls Planet 999. For some contestants, Mnet has made it's intentions very clear, but for others, the future remains murky. Furthermore, the interim results for the final week of voting have completely torpedoed any sense of rationality remaining in the show. So without further adieu let's get on with it.

After the second elimination, it's time to recalibrate the groups. Team "U+Me = Love" is down to four members: Sakamoto Mashiro, May, Kotone Kamimoto and Zhou Xinyu. While Sakamoto ranks in the overall Top 9, May barely skated in at 8th place in J-Group and both Kotone and Zhou Xinyu had to be rescued by the Planet Pass. But things could have been worse!

More Mnet translation shenanigans, plus the 2nd eliminations and one surprise departure.