written by: TESTAMENTVM Just a little over a month after their official debut, Gangkiz - the seven-member outfit housed under GM Contents Media (a CCM spinoff that also manages Co-Ed School) – has released the repackaged version of their underwhelming first album (‘We Became Gang’) titled ‘MAMA’.  And as many observant fans have noted, this repackaged EP and its title […]

A Vietnamese independent dance group known as St. 319 recently uploaded a dance cover of EXO‘s “MAMA” and pretty much nailed it to the fucking wall. On top of the fact that they had the entire choreo on lock, the video itself was really well staged, which I thought was a really great detail considering […]

written by: McRoth Hype is an unwieldy force in that one must know how to use it in order to reap its rewards. Recently, Korean pop powerhouse SM Entertainment challenged the conventions of debuting a group by utilizing a ridiculous amount of hype as a tool to reflect the caliber of its content. For those who missed […]

Man, this week traveled at warp speed.  Last week’s poll is already closed and we have a CLEAR winner this time. One performance of the 2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards literally crushed everyone else to pieces. Any guesses? I’ll give you a hint:  they have a number in their name…aaaand cue the drum roll.

While Mnet is fist fighting with SBS, KBS and MBC at the moment after the official date of the Mnet Asian Music Awards was announced to be on a weekend (hell on earth for music programs in Korea), let’s re-live some of last year’s performances and open up a brand new poll!

I woke up a little late, but it is Monday and here is my little wrap-up of last weekend.  I know MAMA is done and over with, and last night was the AMA’s, but here it is, just so no one thinks I missed out on anything (not that there was much to miss out […]