I’ve been on an indie kick recently if you haven’t noticed. I personally blame Haruna.

Growing up, I played the piano. Maybe that’s why I can’t resist a solid piano opening.

MAMAMOO occupies an interesting position in the K-Pop market. They’re not quite billed as an idol group, like, say, Red Velvet or TWICE. At the same time, though, they’re not quite indie, either. They occupy the space in between, and they’re damn good at filling it.

We haven’t listened to good, old-fashioned idol pop in a while, haven’t we?

I love it when K-Pop music videos turn into episodes of K-drama lite (barring, say, 20-minute-long monstrosities), and the video for The Space Between is one of the best I’ve watched.

If the Dragonball Z scouter cameo wasn’t enough reason for Yubin’s just-released Thank U Soooo Much to jump the line for a feature, its gorgeous 80's-inspired music surely is.

Jaurim released a new album for the first time in five years, and I am here for it.

SE SO NEON is one of the most interesting Korean indie artists active today. Just look at this gorgeous music video, which is reason enough to feature it for today’s pick.

Swing, baby, swing!

Here in New York, home of the Kotaku mothership, we just got our first dusting of snow last week. (In November!)

I have a thing about songs with saxophone riffs. And that thing is: I can’t resist them.

When you’ve delved into K-Pop as deeply as I have (to be clear, this is not a brag), YouTube sometimes suggests artists, and songs, that you had no idea ever existed. This is how I found Haruna.

Drug Restaurant (yes, that is their name) is a four-member Korean indie band that is perhaps most well-known for its lead vocalist, Jung Joon Young, who rose to fame through Superstar K, a popular music survival program.

There are two instances of Blue Moon as a proper noun. One is a resoundingly mediocre beer that college seniors buy when they take their first steps into microbreweries. The other is this. Rest assured, this is not resoundingly mediocre.

How often do you see a new idol group that debuts with an expiration date already set in stone, even before their first performance? With I.O.I, that’s exactly what happened.

When Sistar—the group behind a veritable cavalcade of summer hits like I Swear, Loving U and Shake It—announced they were hanging up their hats, fans didn’t quite expect this.

I’ve never played Resident Evil before, and by golly, that’s changing today. (No better day for it!)

When Bekah, one of the original members of After School, became the latest victim of the group’s “graduation” concept, she released a surprise digital single that left her fans with not a dry eye in sight.

Welcome to Goodbye Songs Week, where we go through some of the most heart-rending and saddening goodbye songs from K-Pop groups whose numbers came up before their time.

It isn’t often that listening to a K-Pop track makes you feel like you’ve accidentally stumbled into a tilted Victorian horror movie, but IU’s Cruel Fairy Tale does exactly that.