In connection with my desire to fully keep up with the J-pop industry, I’m planning to do a weekly round-up of any new releases that have caught my ear. Some of these may have been covered on the blog already, but my hope is that… Read More »New & Noteworthy J-pop of the Week (June 1, 2025)
The latest photo editing advancements in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom bring powerful AI-driven tools to every editor. These tools change how creatives work. They save time and spark new ideas. Have you seen how fast image edits can happen now? The speed and precision feel… Read More »2025’s Photo Editing Advancements in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Transform Creative Workflows
While Astro’s Dream Pt.1 was never specifically promoted as a “summer” album, it’s one of the K-pop projects I most closely associate with the season and was released just before one of K-pop’s most epic summers in 2017. More importantly, it’s incredibly strong and represents… Read More »Reviewing One of My Favorite K-Pop Summer Albums: ASTRO – DREAM PT. 1
Prayer of the Countess The Making of the Third and the Mortal’s Tears Laid in Earth Early ’90s Norwegian doom metal. Not something you hear every day. Communed from the same natural mysteries of the landscape that animated their black metal countrymen—forests, folklore, the cycle… Read More »The Third and the Mortal – Tears Laid in Earth
It’s time to crush your way into the weekend with the new song and video from New York’s Concrete. Styling themselves as “crossover death metal,” the band embodies aspects of New York’s iconic hardcore and death metal scenes. An obvious standout for the track is… Read More »Video Premiere: Concrete – “Chains of Oppression”