Skillfully walking the tightrope that an upbeat pop song requires is "Shut Up U," the new single from the seven-member South Korean girl group WA$$UP.
Every song on Kirin's album "Love And Happiness," released on Thursday, has a foot planted firmly in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, paying homage to the artists that started the musical revolution that brought rap to the suburbs.
Gonguri, a doom metal band that emerged this year from Seoul, see how slow they can go on "Unwanted Man" from their debut cassette.
"Her," the new five-song EP from the South Korean rap group Pinodyne is an introspective album, often bordering on hip-hop balladry, with one notable exception.
Hot on the heels of their debut single "Ear Attack," rising stars Badkiz are back with their third single, "Babomba," an anthemic dance tune with obscene amounts of energy and serious hit potential.
South Korean rapper Jerry.K's new track "Higher," featuring Sleeq, Rico and Don Malik, hits you like a punch to the guts.
On their 2010 cut "Their Bodies Covered in Flames," Korean death metal band Seed's insistence on making tight and taut music illustrates that metal is, in fact, a music of restraint.
There are few songs on the Korean pop charts, or any chart for that matter, that could get a party going as quickly as "Up In This Club" the new song by vocalist Joe Rhee and featuring rapper Keebomb.
With shades of acoustic rock, 1980s Cuban dance music and early hip-hop, "Like A Cat," the title track of the new AOA album scheduled for release on Thursday is another winner.
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.