OURBIRTHDAY make their official debut today under JYP subsidiary INNIT Entertainment. This follows a truly diabolical pre-release that dampened my hopes for their eventual sound. Thankfully, Squeezy is a small step up. The song largely jettisons the annoying sing-chant approach of Hungry for a funkier,… Read More »Song Review: OURBIRTHDAY – Squeezy
If you don’t count G-Dragon’s 2024 collaboration with bandmates Taeyang and Daesung, I haven’t written about a new Bigbang track since 2022. This makes BiiiG a pretty big deal, but also a bittersweet one. The band has now been cleaved down to three members, making… Read More »Song Review: Bigbang – BiiiG
Adobe’s Photography plan currently runs $19.99 a month for Photoshop and Lightroom together, billed annually. That works out to $239.88 a year, and plenty of subscribers are now renewing at $263.88 or more once storage and taxes get added in. Five years ago, a comparable… Read More »Do You Want to Replace Photoshop With Luminar? Here Is What Actually Changes.
Dutch hardcore/death/groove metal outfit Everything Decays will release their debut album, and the second entry in their Requiem series, next month but they’re teasing it early with new single “Crowd Control.” A four-minute genre amalgam, “Crowd Control” fuses hardcore, groove metal, deathcore and death metal into one coherent… Read More »Track Premiere: Everything Decays – ‘Crowd Control’
This was my tenth year attending KCON LA, and as usual I want to offer some thoughts on the experience. If you’re interested in previous recaps, click here: 2016 // 2017 // 2018 // 2019 // 2022 Pt.1 // 2022 Pt.2 // 2023 // 2024… Read More »KCON LA 2026: Recap & Review