Ender built a reputation on slow-tempo soul. ‘Trigger’ files under rock instead, and the move is the story: the same voice that carried ‘첫사랑의 기준은!’ through an unhurried ballad now works against a faster, harder…
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The yips is the name for what happens when a player who has made a throw a thousand times suddenly cannot. inaekkum built a song on that, likening the moment pressure separates mind from body…
You know the feeling. A voice cracks. A choir arrives. The drums finally enter. A guitar climbs into a solo. A quiet song suddenly becomes enormous. Then the hairs on your arms stand up. Musical…
Some songs need a chorus before you recognise them. Others need about two seconds. A guitar chord, a drum pattern, a piano note or a strange electronic sound can be enough to tell your brain…
Mr. Brightside sounds like celebration. Put it on at a wedding, a student bar, a festival or almost any crowded party in Britain and there is a good chance the entire room will start singing.…
Chu Sumin debuted in 2022 with the single ‘야광별’ and came through the CJ Culture Foundation Tune-Up programme as part of its 25th class. ‘내일에서 만나!’ is her third single, and it returns to a…
Rock en Seine has unveiled a huge lineup for 2026, bringing The Cure, Tyler, The Creator, Lorde, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Deftones to Paris for five days of live music. The French…
After more than two decades of holding down the low end for other people, Jung Min Lee has stepped to the front. ‘The Shadow’ is the debut solo single from the bassist of Charlie Jung…
It might be the most disarming line in recent indie rock: show me a picture of your mother. On ‘I Wanna See Your Mother’s Picture,’ the cheeky new single from Korean four-piece Men And Them,…
Some songs take three minutes to make their point; ‘OhWah!’ makes it in a single syllable. The funk-charged new release from SIMILE LAND—the Seoul five-piece increasingly cast as Korean indie’s enfant terrible—is built around one…
