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BOYNEXTDOOR, in the Present Tense (opens the original)
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One of the defining sounds of BOYNEXTDOOR’s latest chapter began not in a recording studio, but in the swell of a crowd. During the group’s first world tour, a chant TAESAN caught from the crowd at a Lollapalooza aftershow stayed with him. That energy eventually found its way into “ANIMAL” through its repeated “hoo, hoo, hoo” — a hook designed to be echoed back, wherever in the world the group might be performing. Since their 2023 debut, JAEHYUN, SUNGHO, RIWOO, TAESAN, LEEHAN and WOONHAK have bu
aespa Kicks Off SYNK : COMPLæXITY Tour in Seoul: 6 Best Moments (opens the original)
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Seoul was already deep in the heat of August when thousands of MYs made their way to Gocheok Sky Dome for the opening weekend of aespa‘s fourth world tour. Inside, the temperature only seemed to rise. Across Aug. 7 and 8, Karina, Winter, Giselle and Ningning welcomed a combined 35,000 fans to aespa’s first concerts at the dome, opening SYNK : COMPLæXITY with 27 songs across roughly two-and-a-half hours. Built around “CRACK,” a rupture that brings aespa into conflict with altered versions of ae-a
aespa Launches SYNK : COMPLæXITY Tour in Seoul: Here’s the Opening-Night Setlist (opens the original)
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After delivering a show-stopping performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 2, aespa kicked off its SYNK : COMPLæXITY trek, the group’s fourth world tour, on Friday (Aug. 7) at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome. The K-pop quartet has steadily expanded its touring résumé since launching SYNK : HYPER LINE in February 2023, followed by SYNK : PARALLEL LINE in June 2024 and SYNK : aeXIS LINE in August 2025. On opening night, the group once again delivered the commanding choreography, polished production
South Korean Copyright Agency Ends Ban on AI-Assisted Music, Launches Framework For Registration, Royalties (opens the original)
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As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the global music ecosystem, South Korea has taken a decisive step toward defining where human artistry ends and machine generation begins. The Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA), the nation’s largest music copyright collective, has officially implemented South Korea’s first formal framework governing AI-assisted musical works. First coming into effect on Aug. 3, this policy revision marks a major turning point: it recognizes AI within defined in
CLOSE YOUR EYES on Making Fans Proud, Breaking Genre Boundaries & the Dreams Driving Their Next Chapter (opens the original)
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The ideal metaphor to describe the journey of CLOSE YOUR EYES — borrowing the concept of the group’s first record — is a book with many chapters. Each one sheds light on a different nuance of the seven members who won the survival show Project 7. Since the group’s debut in April 2025 with ETERNALT, the band has moved across genres and styles without ever losing the distinctive quality that makes them move as one body in every single track, and that speaks to their uniqueness within the K-pop lan
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