IU’s Evocative “Love Wins All” Music Video (featuring V) is Thought-Provoking

Itโ€™s not easy for two well-known celebrities to immerse themselves in their roles so well that we donโ€™t seeย them, but rather their characters. But watching IU’s music video for “Love Wins All,” I didnโ€™t see pop stars IU and V, but rather a pair of anguished characters who were trying desperately to survive in this post-apocalyptic inferno.

The Rose, Lollapalooza & Rock ‘n’ Roll

“Our goal as artists is for everyone who comes to our shows โ€” no matter what age, what gender โ€” to feel included,” said The Rose frontman Woosung. “That’s the energy we want at our concerts. We want it to be this happy place, a garden of roses where you’re enjoying music together with all kinds of different people and everybody feels safe.”

The 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music

What follows is not only the story of Korean popular music, and how it birthed the K-pop business, but also how a small peninsula nation learned how to make art in the face of colonialism and political change, culled sonics from all corners of the globe, and keeps striving to find new ways of distilling the purest, most thrilling aspects of the human experience into four-minute packages of pop revelation.

Sugaโ€™s D-Day Concert Review: Agust D, Yoongi, and BTS Suga in One Glorious Fusion

In the final moments of the concert, the cameras seem to multiply, his cadence intensifies, the lights flash like paparazzi light bulbs. On the giant screen, surveillance-style footage captures him at a dozen different angles. Itโ€™s all fury and flame and breathless swagger; Suga can dance, Agust D prefers to stalk. And the last image we see is Min Yoongi, his retreating back, the house lights already up, a person at the very end of it all.

“Suga: Road to D-Day”

“It’s my dream to travel around the world and play with local musicians playing their traditional instruments,” Suga says in his documentary Suga: Road to D-Day. “It’s my dream to record them and make music based on that.” But he has trepidation, too. “I worry that I won’t have anything to talk about,” Suga says. “I have fears that I have no more dreams to follow.”

Epik Highโ€™s Tablo on Trauma, Triumph, and the Truth

A year ago, Tablo wasn’t sure there would be another Epik High album. Now the Korean hip-hop star is ready to talk about it all โ€” from their new EP, ‘Strawberry,’ to the trauma he faced from an online troll campaign, to his next collaboration with BTS’ RM. My exclusive interview for Rolling Stone.