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- Sep 19, 2026
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During ATEEZ’s Biggest Year, Leader Hongjoong Wanted to Share a Song About Having ‘Enough’ (opens the original)
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In April, Hongjoong returned to Coachella with nothing to do. Two years earlier, he had been on the Indio Valley stage when ATEEZ became the first K-pop boy band to perform at the festival. This time he was a guest, watching other people work. “That day I got so many inspirations,” he says of a trip where he linked up with Teddy Swims, PinkPantheress, Central Cee, Swae Lee and Daesung of BIGBANG. “I really love to experience everywhere.” He came back to Los Angeles, booked a session and crafted
BIGBANG Celebrate 20 Years Together With MetLife Stadium Concert: 13 Best Moments (opens the original)
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BIGBANG brought its 20th anniversary run, the BIGBANG 2026-2027 World Tour ‘XX : COSMOS,’ to MetLife Stadium for the only East Coast date on the entire trek — and for the trio’s first show in the tri-state area since two nights at Newark’s Prudential Center in October 2015. G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung are touring the world together for the first time since 2017, and for the first time as a three-piece, a fact the night never sidestepped but instead absorbed into the celebration. The set ran th
The Best Moments From KCON LA 2026 (opens the original)
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Los Angeles officially belonged to K-pop this weekend with KCON LA 2026, but the city was deep in K-pop all week. This year’s KCON festival officially opened Friday (Aug. 14) at the Los Angeles Convention Center and Crypto.com Arena. Under the theme of “K-SOUL CITY,” a play on the South Korean capital, festival producer CJ ENM is stretching 2026’s convention across K-pop, K-beauty, K-food and K-story programming, including the first-ever Olive Young Festa K-Beauty Playground, which boasts 55 dif
CORTIS Tells NYC to Put Their Phones Down at First U.S. Solo Concert: The 7 Best Moments (opens the original)
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In under a year since hitting the scene, CORTIS has earned a No. 3 debut on the Billboard 200, a place on Billboard‘s 21 Under 21, a Lollapalooza set, a soundtrack single for the Stephen Curry–produced animated film GOAT, a halftime performance at the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, collaborations with Juicy J and Teezo Touchdown, and are now hitting the U.S. on their first tour. On Thursday (Aug. 6), the quintet consisting of Martin, Juhoon, James, Seonghyeon and Keonho came to the Infosys Theater
Stray Kids’ ‘THIS & THAT’ Album: All 7 Tracks Ranked (opens the original)
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At this point in their careers, Stray Kids have turned topping the Billboard 200 into something of a tradition. Since signing with Republic Records in the U.S. in 2022, every one of the octet’s Korean albums — Oddinary, Maxident (both 2022), 5-Star, Rock-Star (both 2023), ATE, HOP (both 2024), KARMA and DO IT (both 2025) — has debuted at No. 1, making them the first act in the chart’s history to open on top with their first eight charted releases. Released via JYP Entertainment and the REPUBLIC
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