What’s Your Name?: A Compendium of K-pop Fandoms

In the ever proliferating industry of K-pop, it often gets difficult to keep a track on the exits and the entries of numerous bands; they are here toda…

Best of Weekly Music Shows: 5/5 – 5/10

Welcome back to another best of weekly music shows. In light of the Sewol Ferry Tragedy, the entertainment industry was put on hold for the past three …

Best of 2013 Recap: Your Favorite Indie Releases of the Year

Indie has been a greatly disputed term for quite some time. With changes in music production and frequent misuse of the word, it's not much of a surpri…

Roundtable: The Best Indies

With December already here, it’s time to prepare ourselves and reflect on the year that was 2013. While many of us come to K-pop for its manufacture…

Jaurim’s Triumphant Flight of “Icarus”

Just when the K-pop world thinks it has it all- infamously catchy, garbled hooks, equally infamous rows of packaged, smiling idols -- in short pop prod…

Three Artists. One #PeepShow

In 2008, the brand Converse launched the campaign Three Artists. One Song to celebrate their centennial. The first single, a collaboration between The …

K-pop Indie Gem: Jaurim

This week's K-pop Indie Gem presents one of South Korea's most influential alternative rock bands, Jaurim. The band consisting of members Kim Yoon-ah o…