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Editorial, Features
CORTIS’s debut concert got called too short, too repetitive, and underdeveloped. Three weeks later, the group played Lollapalooza and opened…
August 8, 2026
BIGBANG’s first world tour in nine years starts this month — 31 shows, 18 cities, a 20th-anniversary victory lap. It’s…
August 5, 2026
All seven members posted the same statement, at the same time, on July 29. Behind the quiet wording is the…
July 31, 2026
Editorial, News
KATSEYE’s Ed Sheeran-co-written single is the most vocally confident thing the group has released. The conversation around it, days later,…
July 30, 2026
The group reunited in February, toured through January, and then more or less vanished as a unit — while each…
Editorial, Features, News
TWICE has entered its second re-contract negotiation with JYP, and the internet has already decided it knows the outcome. The…
July 28, 2026
Simon Jakops wrote, produced, and directed nearly everything XG has ever released. Five months after his arrest and resignation, the…
July 25, 2026
Two identity markers came off in the same era — the gendered parenthesis in the group’s name, and Soyeon’s name…
July 23, 2026
A Japanese company trains a Japanese group in Korea and calls it “not K-pop.” A Korean company trains a Japanese…
July 22, 2026
Culture Explained, Editorial, Features
HYBE and JYP ran the same experiment in the same country at the same time. Two years in, the results…
July 20, 2026
She walked out of the audition once. She walked out of the finished group too. The pattern is more revealing…
July 17, 2026
Forget the Super Bowl. On July 19, BTS, Madonna, Shakira, and Justin Bieber will attempt to compress the biggest live…
