The SB Mixtape, 11/04/2016: Better Than the Title Track
In a perfect world, the title tracks promoted by any musician would be the best song on their album. However, as anyone who’s ever listened to a full album can attest, that pretty much never happens....
View ArticleBest of Weekly Music Shows: 11/7 – 11/13
Welcome back to the Best of Weekly Music Shows. This week was slammed with new music and stages. Hyorin, BtoB, BAP, Mamamoo, Astro, T-ara, and Kyuhun all made comebacks, crowding the stages and making...
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Shinee Dull and Depress on ‘1 and 1’
It’s been nearly a month and a half since Shinee came back with their 5th album, 1 of 1, and in the grand tradition of SM Entertainment, it has been re-released as 1 and 1, adding 5 new songs to the...
View ArticleBest of Weekly Music Shows: 12/5 – 12/11
Welcome back, readers, to the Best of Weekly Music Shows! This week was a slow one; with not many debuts or comebacks, though we did see the debut of Thunder as a solo artist. Neither M! Countdown nor...
View ArticleBest of Weekly Music Shows: 1/2- 1/8
Welcome back to the the Best of Weekly Music Shows! The new year is now in full swing, and with it are comebacks out the wazoo. AOA, AkMu, NCT 127 and April have all made comebacks, making for a very...
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Music and Lyrics: All the Fxxks to Give
Spencer W. Kimball once said “Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcefully”. Well, no disrespect to Spencer W. Kimball, but fuck no. Profanity is rude, crude, and taboo, but...
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Sam Kim and Loco Melt The Heart in “Think About’ Chu”
Here in the northern hemisphere, we are still trapped in the cold wasteland of winter. However, Sam Kim and Loco have teamed up to bring us “Think About’ Chu”, a single that can melt even the most...
View ArticleSide B: A Wonderful Goodbye to the Wonder Girls
My fellow Wonderfuls, the event we have all feared is now upon us. After 10 years, the Wonder Girls are no more. They survived through multiple line-up changes and a 3-year hiatus, all the while making...
View ArticleBest of Weekly Music Shows: 1/30 – 2/6
Welcome back, readers, to the Best of Weekly Music Shows! The Lunar New Year was still felt this week, with everything before Friday not airing a new episode. Among those shows that did air, there was...
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NCT Dream Woo The Crowd With “My First and Last”
Close on the heels of NCT 127, NCT Dream is back! The youth-concepted sub-unit made a splash with their debut “Chewing Gum”, but many had reservations about pushing the young ages of the members so...
View ArticleBest of Weekly Music Shows: 2/27- 3/5
Welcome back to the Best of Weekly Music Shows! It’s apparently Ladies’ Night this week, as we saw comebacks from Lovelyz, Gugudan, Jang Yeon-jeong, and Taeyeon. Ladies also made up most of the...
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Brave Girls Go Deep House For “Rollin”
Brave Girls are back! However, this recent comeback comes with a cost. Yoojin and Hyeran, the last of the original members, have departed the group. Now a 5-piece ensemble, Brave Girls have returned to...
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MVP’s “Take It” Fails To Impress
Another K-pop boy band has debuted, this time called MVP, from PH Entertainment. If nothing else, they are strong contenders for the “Most Un-Google-able Group Name” award. Their debut, “Take It”, is...
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Highlight’s “Plz Don’t Be Sad” Wins on Intentions but Fails in Execution
Beast is back! Well, back-ish. Instead, they have metamorphosed into Highlight, a tumultuous process that involved leaving Cube Entertainment, setting up their own company, and, most heartbreaking for...
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Girl’s Day Amaze In “I’ll Be Yours”
It’s been a long wait for Girl’s Day fans– almost two years while they’ve been in Japan. However, that wait has ended, with their newest comeback entitled “I’ll Be Yours”. And yes, Girl’s Day, I will...
View ArticleBest of Weekly Music Shows: 3/27 – 4/2
Welcome back to the Best of Weekly Music Shows! This was a slower week in the K-pop universe, a chance to catch our breath and re-evaluate what’s already out there. The only prominent comeback came...
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Momoland Fail to Find Themselves in “Wonderful Love”
Last year, Momoland debuted following the survival series Finding Momoland, giving us a cute, quirky girl group with a plethora of members. This was a bit of a risk, considering that a surprising...
View ArticleBest of Weekly Music Shows: April 24- 30
Welcome back to the Best of Weekly Music Shows! This week was relatively busy, with comebacks from Snuper and Varsity, plus a comeback from first-generation K-pop act Sechkies. IU has started her...
View ArticleThe SB Mixtape: 5/4/2017, Horns
So, I don’t about y’all, but where I live, it snowed this week. This wouldn’t be an issue if I lived somewhere where it was actually winter, but I don’t. I live in the American mid-west where May is...
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Steer Clear of Twice’s Signal
It hasn’t even been 3 months since “Knock Knock”, but the ladies of Twice are back again. Their new EP and single, both entitled Signal, are a clear shift in Twice’s sound. Until now, they’ve been the...
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