One Direction headed to Saturday Night Live, boy bands continue global comeback

Britain’s best boy band One Direction will continue their quest for world domination with a musical guest spot on Saturday Night Live on April 7th.

[Music Video] BIGBANG – “Fantastic Baby”

If you thought that G-Dragon’s HSN hairpiece was too much in the “Bad Boy” video, then wait until you get a load of the weave he’s rocking in BIGBANG’s latest clip, “Fantastic Baby”.

[Single Review] BIGBANG – “Bad Boy”

I’ve really had BIGBANG all wrong this era. Not only did they trick me once when they released the sublime “Blue” (review here) instead of the Top Forty Teddy Park club banger that I was expecting, they went and did it a second time with the their new single “Bad Boy”.

[Single Review] BIGBANG – Blue

I’m gonna be straight up honest with you: I did not expect BIGBANG to return with a song as good as “Blue”. If this had been a bet, I would’ve put all my money on miss A coming back with a better song than BIGBANG, and I clearly would’ve lost.

Swizz Beatz inks groundbreaking deal to bring K-Pop to America

Well, this is interesting. Swizz Beatz‘s production company has entered into a partnership with South Korean entertainment company O&Media in a new deal to break K-Pop artists in America, and American artists in Asia.

miss A prepares for battle with BIGBANG

There’s gonna be some major K-Pop carnage this week when the biggest new girl group of the past two years miss A go up against K-Pop superstars BIGBANG on the charts. miss A are set to drop their new mini-album Touch at midnight (February 20th, KST), while BIGBANG will release a new song “Blue” two [...]

BIGBANG prepare for their biggest comeback yet

Over the weekend it was confirmed that BIGBANG will be returning in March with a brand new album. Not only is the usual hoopla expected due to their status as South Korea’s biggest boyband, but there’s also an added anticipation — and perhaps even trepidation — attached to the group’s comeback, caused by everything from [...]

Pitchfork posting K-Pop? Google opening K-Pop channel on Youtube? Whoa!

Unless you’re living under a rock, it’s fairly apparent that K-Pop is now the most internationally talked about brand of foreign music from a non-English speaking country (Sweden excluded), gaining more popularity and attention across the globe than Germany and Japan, both of which make up two of the world’s largest music markets. We’ve seen [...]