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Man, I know there are ebbs and flows in terms of quality releases since they can come in batches, but for me January of 2022 in K-pop has been a …
Read More »Rundown: M.M.D, Yein, NATURE, PENTAGON, Golden Child, Kyuhyun, Def. + others
Around The Web: 2021 K-Pop (And J-Pop) Year-End Lists
Did you think you were free from year-end content just cause I was done? Of course not, because everybody loves lists and shit, man. —— Worldwide Lists Rolling Stone: 50 …
Read More »Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Part 4
Asian Junkie’s Best Of 2021 Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Honorable Mentions Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Part 1 Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Part 2 Top …
Read More »Asian Junkie’s Best Of 2021
Hello and welcome everybody to Asian Junkie’s year-end content for 2021. This post will serve as a clearinghouse for a year-long project where I basically listened to as many Korean …
Read More »Eunbi & Juri have ‘PD48’ reunion for Epic Seven OST song, “I’ll Be Your Energy”
Imagine my surprise today when I opened Epic Seven to continue my degen gacha career and found that ex-IZ*ONE Eunbi and Rocket Punch‘s Juri were having a Produce 48 reunion …
Read More »[Review] ‘Cyber Trance Presents Ayu Trance 2’ is a timely reissue, reminder of J-pop’s once towering soft power
Do you like Trance? Do you like Ayumi Hamasaki? Are you a DJ? Then you probably know what this is. To the rest of you, this year marks the 20th anniversary of 'Cyber Trance presents Ayu Trance', an official remix project commissioned by Avex to get the biggest names in trance to remix their J-Pop superstar Ms. Hamasaki. It would end up being a hugely successful and influential endeavor, leading to another 3 volumes and Ayu finding her way into DJ crates around the world. For many outside of Japan, this was the gateway into 21st century J-Pop.
Read More »BoA’s debut classic “ID Peace B” gets the SM Remastering Project treatment, song still as fresh as ever
SM Entertainment‘s SM Remastering Project is gonna expose a lot of … questionable choices in K-pop history, but BoA‘s 2000 debut single “ID Peace B” is not one of them. …
Read More »[Event] ‘Head In The Clouds 2021’ – ATARASHII GAKKO and Lil Cherry & GOLDBUUDA kick off the festival
On November 6-7, 88rising held its third Head In The Clouds festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Postponed in 2020 as a response to the widespread …
Read More »[Review] MARY’S BLOOD’s self-titled album is a quintessential metal release from 2021
MARY’S BLOOD‘s self-titled sixth studio album dropped on September 29, and I’ve been obsessed with it ever since. I’ve already gone over the history of the band in a previous …
Read More »[Event] Miyavi ushers in the restart of concert season with Imaginary Tour
*Ahem* Dearest Asian Junkie readers, I am back. That’s right, you’re not trippin’ balls … I AM BACK, BABY!!! And thus, so is concert season. Feels good, right? Shall we …
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