K-pop music and dance acted as a draw for fans, who filled the lawn in front of a stage on Aug. 10 at the Chicago Taste of Korea Festival in Skokie at Oakton Park. The Saturday and Sunday festival ...

In 2025, girl group TWICE marked their 10th anniversary since debuting with “ Like Ooh-Ahh ” under JYP Entertainment. To ...

Meanwhile, clubs kept clubbing, festivals kept bumping, dance artists, agents and promoters pushed into new spaces, dance ...

Even before names like BTS, Blackpink and NewJeans got cozy on Billboard charts and shows like Netflix’s “Squid Game” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” became required viewing, Korean pop culture has been ...

Ballads have returned. The slow, emotional sensibilities of ballads, which had been overshadowed by the dominance of K-pop ...

At the PopRox Dance Studio on Capitol Hill on a hot August day, nine students and an instructor somberly walked toward the mirrors on the wall, dragging their feet. As percussion rattled into a chorus ...

Alec Cohen’s class Intro to Popstar Dance teaches people to dance like an iconic singer. Attendees say the weekly bicoastal session has helped them reconnect with their love of dance and feel more ...

When the realities of life get hard, does music get ... happy? “Recession pop” is currently trending as people reach for the music of the mid-2000s for a mood boost. And you know what? It worked.

You may have heard of recession meals and wardrobes. Now, we have "recession pop" - bangers from 2008-2010 gaining popularity with a younger audience. Let me take you back to the fall of 2008. The ...

The boundaries of pop music are amorphous, since it incorporates elements of seemingly every other genre. Yet for a genre of music that borrows from so many different traditions, there are a handful ...