SB Decade in Review: A Song a Year, Part 1 (2010-2014)

As we cross over into the 2020s, retrospectives on the past decade of K-pop abound. Year on year, the shifts in the K-pop scene may not be apparen…

Music & Lyrics: The Whole Truth

All people, as a condition of living in society, agree to abide by the social contract. The stipulations therein range from the serious (don’t mur…

SB Decade in Review: A Retrospective of the Korean Hip Hop Landscape (2010-2019)

By 2010, the foundations of the Korean hip hop (KHH) landscape had already been paved with excellent hip-hop records, coming just the year before …

For Your Viewing Pleasure: Color Me Crimson

Welcome back to another installment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscap…

For Your Viewing Pleasure: Pretty in Plaid

Welcome back to another installment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscap…

For Your Viewing Pleasure: Back to Black

Welcome back to another installment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscap…

The SB Mixtape 7/18/2019: Report To The Dance Floor

There are songs you can dance to. There are songs you want to dance to. And then there are songs that you have to dance to. The songs that instantly f…

Jay Park’s “Nothing Matters” Shares a Vulnerable Side

Many K-pop fans often complain that their favourite artists do not release new music often enough—just ask any Black Pink fan. The same, however, …

The SB Mixtape: 4/10/2019, The Anti-Anxiety Edition

I am, full confession, a very anxious person. My default setting is to expect the worst possible outcome for everything. Normally, I cope with this by…

The SB Mixtape, 7/26/2018: All About That Bass

Music is, at the core, a subjective jigsaw puzzle. A good song means taking a dozen disparate parts-- melody, harmony, strings, brass, synths, bass, vo…