In news that I somehow missed but is extremely cool, NMIXX became the first K-pop group to perform at Carnaval in Brazil via an invitation to drag queen Pabllo Vittar‘s …
Read More »Songs You May Have Missed: December 2025 (Fromis 9, ALPHA DRIVE ONE, Chuei Liyu, SORN & MINNIE, SECRET NUMBER, Rolling Quartz, more)
Hello, playlist darlings, it’s really been a while! I’m so happy to be back to share more tracks with you all, and for this first playlist of 2026 (or final …
Read More »Rundown: IVE, ATEEZ, ZEROBASEONE, Hinatazaka46, NAVILLERA, FANTASTICS, UNEDUCATED KID
Damn, there really wasn’t a whole lot going on for a couple weeks or so again, and really I think it was among the worst starts to a year as …
Read More »ZEROBASEONE confirmed to continue as 5, YH Entertainment quartet will move on
In all the mess yesterday, I almost missed ZEROBASEONE news entirely, as it felt weirdly unceremoniously released. Anyway, the short of it is the group will continue on under WAKEONE …
Read More »Kim Junsu performs again on M Countdown after 17 years away due to blacklisting
Former TVXQ member Kim Junsu returned recently to major music shows for the first time since 2009 on M Countdown. Perhaps appropriately — as musical theater provided him a stage …
Read More »Min Hee Jin wins ~$18 million stock option lawsuit against HYBE, court mostly accepts her arguments
Back to the legal mess mines with a major update in the NewJeans/Min Hee Jin/ADOR/HYBE case, as courts ruled in favor of Min Hee Jin regarding her put option to …
Read More »Conspiracy nut claims Utada Hikaru planned Charlie Kirk getting murked, which might outdo the IU theories
In crazy-ass-shit news, remember those people who are convinced IU is some kind of secret operative? Well, apparently there’s a Japanese version now and it involves Utada Hikaru. Yes, a …
Read More »SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan & TXT’s Soobin arguing over KARA’s “Jumping” is the most I’ve related to idols
Both Seungkwan of SEVENTEEN and Soobin of TXT are known for being girl group stans (and K-pop stans, generally), so it was a special treat to see them debating the …
Read More »Covered: UAU (EXO), Lily & Camila (‘Wicked’), CREZL (Gen Hoshino), Andamiro (Lee Hi), Na Go Eun (f(x)), JiU (Han Ye Seul)
Covered, because I enjoy covers. Part of it is because I get to revisit songs from the past that I enjoy (and that’s a lot of K-pop’s appeal to me …
Read More »South Korea revises standard contracts to provide increased protection for K-pop trainees … at least in theory
With idol contract disputes taking up a lot of space in 2025’s biggest K-pop stories — and really, they’ve always been in dispute since I’ve been into K-pop — South …
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