Mnet's rap competition show 'Unpretty Rapstar' focuses more on promoting girl hate than to showcase talented female rappers.
On Friday, the parents of the 28-year-old SS501 frontman Kim Hyun Joong added their voices to an increasingly contentious legal battle between the star and his ex-girlfriend, referred to in local media reports as simply "Ms. Choi."
"Sniper" could be Shinhwa's most sonically daring offering to date.
Recently, a theory has surfaced as to why Se7en and YG Entertainment split, despite being on amicable terms. It may have been necessary to allow Se7en to pursue his career where he would be given the utmost priority.
On Tuesday, the South Korean girl group GI (an acronym for "Global Icon"), seemed poised for a major comeback in the world of K-pop, with their third single "Echo" scheduled for release the following day.
Though "Crazy" may be a more well polished pop song, the nasty synthesizer sounds and unrelenting drum groove of 4Minute's "Tickle Tickle Tickle" push the song to even greater heights.
On the 2012 Girls' Generation-TTS track "Checkmate," songwriter and producer Hitchhiker jumps through musical idioms with ease.
On the Billy Carter song "Love and Hatred" the band members show their reluctance to take themselves too seriously, except where the music is concerned.
Recorded live in one take and filmed with a single unedited camera shot, Daeho and Banseok perform an a capella cover of JYP's "You're The One" that far surpasses the original in vocal greatness.
The sound conjured up by Rubber Soul on "Life," like the classic 1965 Beatles album the band is presumably named after, is breaking new ground.
Though it is far from a sound-alike, "Lookin Good," the new single released on Tuesday by Deepflow, revisits the groundbreaking sound of Craig Mack's "Flava In Your Ear" with exciting results.
Taken from the group's "Always" EP, the 11th in the U-KISS catalog, "Playground" is anchored around a silky smooth acoustic guitar part and powerful vocals.
With Big Bang expected to drop their first album in nearly three years this April, YG Entertainment hopes the group will get the ball rolling for successful WINNER and iKON releases.