Circle Chart (formerly known as Gaon Chart) has announced its latest batch of official certifications! In 2018, the Korea ...

The self-titled debut album by KISS deployed a seemingly endless supply of riffs and saw the group blitz the mainstream. Yet, KISS’s rise to stack-heeled supremacy was by no means meteoric.

Since their debut in 2019 with Crown, Tomorrow X Together, aka TXT, has emerged as one of the most recognised groups to come out of South Korea’s music scene. From delivering chart-hitting releases to ...

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K-pop boy group TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT) and girl group aespa were the biggest winners at the 32nd Hanteo Music Awards on ...

Such was the case today when Stereogum contributor Nina Corcoran shouted out Artistes Anciens, the debut album from Winnipeg rock band Polyglots. Released last Friday, the record does have some of ...

This 1978 rock record changed the world of guitar-playing for good. There was an era before Van Halen and an era after. It’s the kind of genre-changing work that Jimi Hendrix had done with the ...

For any artist at all, making a debut album is a decisive moment. Now for female artists who have to deal with public perception and heavy branding efforts, the stakes are even higher. Culture ...

Japanese girl group F5ve (pronounced “fi-vee”) has announced their debut album, “Sequence 01,” via LDH Records/Three Six Zero Recordings. The announcement comes alongside a new single and ...

Created over the winter of 1988 and released on March 14, 1989, Extreme was – and remains – an accomplished hard rock/metal album, showing off the youthful band’s swaggering self-confidence.

The fondly-remembered band released their debut album in the opening days of the 90s, which included Here's Where The Story Ends and the all-time favourite Can't Be Sure. Clint Boon and co's ...