How big is the BTS comeback going to be?
This weekend, the biggest group in K-pop returns from a four-year hiatus with a new album, a live-streamed concert and an enormous tour that is already sold out. (Image credit: Jung Yeon-je)
BTS: Arirang review – the world’s biggest pop band return with dumb fun and downright weirdness
(Big Hit Music)Ending a hiatus that began in 2022, the septet recapture a distinctiveness that had been threatening to ebb away The general consensus seems to be that as BTS’s commercial stock has gone stratospheric – more than 500m units sold worldwide, including over 104bn streams, making them the bestselling Asian act of all time […]
Ralph Stanley / The Stanley Brothers Named New Hall of Fame Inductees
Everything seems just a little more right in the country music world now that it’s been announced that The Stanley Brothers will be the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Paul and the Stanleys are great choices. I can’t imagine anyone will complain about either one of them. I certainly won’t complain. […]
Album Review – JD Graham’s “Uppers & Downers”
This is an artist who only knows how to write the most brutally honest, the most touching and unburdening songs each time pen meets paper, never willing to settle for anything that feels even remotely empty. Singer/Songwriter (#570.15) and Red Dirt (#550.7) on the Country DDS. AI = “Clean”Sharing dispatches from the seedy and downtrodden […]
Sweet Pill’s new album, ‘Still, There’s a Glow,’ was forged through personal struggle
Philadelphia Emo band Sweet Pill has a new album out, Still There’s a Glow. Lead singer Zayna Yousseff breaks down how this album reflected her mental health journey.
Alex Isley explores the thoughts that keep us up at night in her dreamy new album
A restless mind can make sleep elusive. R&B singer Alex Isley channels those lingering nighttime thoughts into her new album, When The City Sleeps.
Bitch: a history
The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next? – by Karen Stollznow Read on Aeon Source: aeon.co
Savage care
Neat ethical principles have nothing to say to doctors like me, faced with the brutal, bloody compromises of hospital life – by Ronald W Dworkin Read on Aeon Source: aeon.co
Paul Overstreet Named New Songwriter Inductee to the Country Hall of Fame
Songwriting is such an essential part of the country music experience that every three years, the Country Music Hall of Fame inducts an individual who is specifically known for writing songs. In 2026, it’s Paul Overstreet. Source: savingcountrymusic.com
With ‘Arirang,’ BTS returns to a K-pop moment of its own making
Four years ago, the boy band went silent — but not before setting off a chain reaction that would reshape the pop market, conquer the Grammys and prime the world for an inevitable comeback.