With "I'm Sorry," Teen Top's most recent single, released on Sunday, the boys are back, adding some serious pep to the sound of the late-1990s boy band slow jam.
By trimming down their sound to tastefully refined melodies over this raw hip-hop groove, Hello Venus have reinvented themselves with a sound that feels just right for the present time.
There is something intoxicating about "I Don't Know," the debut single from the five-member South Korean girl group D.Holic.
What is exciting about "Half an Hour," the new single from K-pop duo Almeng, is their willingness to stray from the rulebook, combining dance sounds and styles at an almost schizophrenic pace.
Floating in a sea of K-pop ballads that seem to barely have a pulse, South Korean singer Seo In Young's new single "Thinking Of You," featuring vocalist and producer Zion T, is an island oasis.
"Suddenly Romance," the new single by Gogoboys, has everything one could want from a non-mainstream Korean song. It has a mellow-but-steady upbeat pace to the melody and a music video which isn't all flash and glam.
Though known to most fans purely as a gifted singer, Korean-American K-pop star Ailee slays it in a brief rap verse on the Gaeko track "Hueng Hai" from his new solo album "REDINGRAY," released on Oct. 17.
On the one-year anniversary of the release of their debut EP, "Dogg's Out," Topp Dogg have once again gone back to the past to create something perfect for right now, on "Annie."
Epic Indeed: Epik High's new single "Born Hater" is hip-hop in its most raw form, a nearly five-and-a-half-minute-long throwdown over what is predominantly one beat.
Edgy and layered, with some very legit rhymes, "War Of Hormone" shows Bangtan Boys (BTS) demonstrating the hip-hop prowess they brandished on earlier dance floor bombs like "Jump" or "BTS Cypher PT.2."