Been a while, and honestly there’s some enjoyable stuff in here this week. Maybe or maybe not a coincidence that it trends that way with summer releases getting underway in …
Read More »Rundown: NewJeans, IVE, SEVENTEEN, ZB1, YUQI, FANTASY BOYS, Xdinary Heroes, more
Don’t look at me that way, this is only two weeks and change late. Surely I’ve done worse before … maybe. Anyway, I trimmed the fat a bit, but there’s …
Read More »[Review] Xdinary Heroes breakthrough with the relentlessly aggressive “Break The Brake”
With every Xdinary Heroes release so far, I think I’ve said some variation of “I see the potential, but the execution just isn’t quite there”, as they kind of tip-toed …
Read More »Rundown: +(KR)ystal Eyes, SEVENTEEN, Feverse, ‘FAST X’/BTS’s Jimin, EPEX, Mijoo, Kang Hyeyeon, Xdinary Heroes
This is only like two or three weeks late, okay? I’m not lazy about everything, you are! Or something. Anyway, a lot of stuff that I haven’t covered already, but …
Read More »B-Side Spotlight: November 2022 (BoA, KARA, Red Velvet, ITZY, B.I, Highlight, BIBI, CSR, AleXa)
November was, somehow, one of those months where it feels like every group possible decided to come back — I guess to get those winter sales in before it’s too …
Read More »Rundown: YooA, Eunji, Chen, Lim Young Woong, Xdinary Heroes, VERIVERY, more
As expected, there have been a lot of releases to cover over the last couple weeks, so here’s another Rundown. Thankfully, they include some nice efforts amongst the riff raff. …
Read More »NMIXX covers “No. 1” in front of BoA & Xdinary Heroes does “Love Me Right” on new music program ‘K-909’
In case you were like me and hadn’t heard about this before today, JTBC debuted a new music program called K-909 that’s hosted by BoA and seemingly aims to ape …
Read More »B-Side Spotlight: July 2022 (Sunye, aespa, Heize, SF9, VIVIZ, ATEEZ, STAYC, WJSN, Hyolyn, HyunA, more)
Some of my absolute favourites dropped albums or were featured artists last month, and I love that for me — it’s the energy I deserve. Because of that, this playlist …
Read More »Rundown: ENHYPEN, Sunye, Nicole, P1Harmony, Xdinary Heroes, TAN, CSR, more
Actually a rather nice week in terms of songs that range from listenable to good even if they haven’t quite hooked me yet. ====== ENHYPEN – “ParadoXXX Invasion” I can’t …
Read More »JYPE is debuting a group called Xdinary Heroes, which sounds like a new gacha game
A new JYP Entertainment group is coming and the name of said group was recently revealed to be … uh, Xdinary Heroes, which sounds more like a new gacha game …
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