Pretty rough fucking week except for like one song, maybe two. ====== ALICE – “Drive Away” ELRIS rebranding as ALICE and then ex-Hello Venus member ALICE releasing something immediately after …
Read More »B-Side Spotlight: February 2022 (Epik High, Billlie, Taeyeon, BTOB, STAYC, Wonho, A Pink + More)
Ladies, gents, beautiful they/thems, and everyone else, welcome to this extremely late edition of B-Side Spotlight for … February 2022. Oops? This one is pretty short and sweet, without my …
Read More »Rundown: Jungkook, VIVIZ, Rolling Quartz, Astro, WONPIL, Ha Sung Woon, and others + 2022 questions
I think I kinda zoned out and assumed releases weren’t coming out because of Lunar New Year, but there actually has been a bunch of them and I was just …
Read More »Rundown: Taeyeon, Fromis 9, Yuju, Wheein, DRIPPIN, YENA + more
What’s up, holy shit are there a lot of releases flooding in to begin 2022. Or maybe it just feels that way for me since I’ve been playing catch up. …
Read More »Songs You May Have Missed: September 2021 (Hot Issue, WJSN, CL, Fromis 9, NELL, ASTRO, ICHILLIN’)
September was a weird month, right? Some really great stuff, and some other stuff that … didn’t wow me, even if I tend to stay away from discussing things I …
Read More »B-Side Spotlight: April 2021 (Wheein, STAYC, Yukika, Yoon Ji Sung, AB6IX, U-MIN, LUNARSOLAR)
Hello there. Don’t look at the date. Let’s go! —— Kim Jaehwan – “Get Antsy” A nice mid-tempo song with lovely vocals. Hwang Chi Yeul – “Rain” Insert “I’m not …
Read More »[Update: Confirmed] Jungkook, Eunwoo, Jaehyun & Mingyu spent night out in Itaewon + concerns over ignored COVID-19 self-isolation recs
Following reports of Gyuri and then Mino being out partying at the time of social distancing, now four other idols are being criticized for doing similar, with BTS‘s Jungkook, ASTRO‘s …
Read More »[Review] ASTRO dull themselves to match trends on “Knock”
In an all-too familiar K-pop template, Astro’s increasing success has come with a shift in their music. Their once bright, energetic style has dulled to a generic, moody haze — …
Read More »[Review] ASTRO’s “Blue Flame” surprisingly uninspired
Well, this seems to be the week where all my favorite, once-bright boy groups go dark. I’m not sure what alternate timeline I’ve stumbled into, but I want out. With …
Read More »ASTRO’s Moonbin yeeted AB6IX’s Woong in ssireum wrestling for ‘ISAC’
Yesterday, it was of the utmost importance to share Eric of The Boyz doing a comedy act straight out of a cartoon. Today, the pressing matter is fancam clips of …
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