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Photo Credit: SM Entertainment
Korea, USA
Posted by: Sunny Kim

What I would give to be on that plane right now… SM Entertainment artists are on their way to perform at SM Town in L.A and photos from inside the [...]

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Photo Credit: SM Entertainment
Singapore
Posted by: Sunny Kim

Super Junior is in the middle of taking part in two enormous concerts — SM Town with their labelmates and their solo show, Super Show 3. It’s been reported that [...]

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Photo Credit: Sports Seoul
Seoul,Korea
Posted by: Sunny Kim

You have to wonder just how crowded Incheon Airport was today. All the top stars from SM were gathered to board their private plane to L.A for the USA leg [...]

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SMOD's third album is self-titled.  Photo: Myspace
Bamako,Mali
Posted by: Beverly

Malian hip-hop group SMOD has one of the most intriguing sounds I’ve heard in a long time. Hailing from Bamako, the trio could be described as a hip-hop group that [...]

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Fight Bite contemplate their next move.  Photo: Myspace
New York,USA
Posted by: Beverly

Brooklyn by-way-of Denton, Texas electropop band Fight Bite caused a flurry of excitement across the Internet (Gorilla Vs. Bear and Stereogum were early champions) when they self-recorded and self-released their [...]

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Categories: Bands We Like, Global, Music, Subjects, The Iggy Blog
Rapper T.I. with wife Tameka "Tiny" Cottle  Photo: Getty
Posted by: Beverly

Multi-platinum rapper T.I. is in trouble again. T.I., AKA Clifford Harris and his newlywed wife singer Tameka “Tiny” Cottle were arrested in Los Angeles Wednesday on drug charges when the [...]

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Photo Credit: BoA Twitter
Korea, USA
Posted by: Sunny Kim

SM Town will be coming to L.A, USA for the first time and because of the number of staff and artists, the organizers rented an entire plane specifically to charter [...]

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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is pretty down.
Prague,Czech Republic
Posted by: Beverly

Actually, don’t call it a bootleg. It’s a fan-edited video. Around fifty Czech Radiohead fans recorded a mind boggling amount of footage at Radiohead’s set in Prague last August. They [...]

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Photo Credit: Azashi
Japan
Posted by: Sunny Kim

On August 24th, gossip magazine Entame, published a report that former KAT-TUN member Akanishi Jin and Yamashita Tomoshia of NEWS had been fighting over Jin’s withdrawal from KAT-TUN. Because the [...]

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Photo Credit: YG Entertainment
Seoul,Korea
Posted by: Sunny Kim

YG Entertainment opened their official blog, YG-Live, on September 1st and the first thing released on the blog was the track list to 2NE1′s first full length album. They will [...]

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Photo Credit: Mamma Mia Video
Seoul,Korea
Posted by: Sunny Kim

Brown Eyed Girls singer Narsha came back with her new song, “Mamma Mia” just a few weeks ago but it was reported by her management that she collapsed on September [...]

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Photo Credit: SM Entertainment
Seoul,Korea
Posted by: Sunny Kim

In the course of an idol’s career, they will probably change their entire look and personality more than most people do in a lifetime. There will be great concepts, concepts [...]

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Prevent smoke inhalation in style.  Photo: samiraboon.com
Sumatra,Indonesia
Posted by: Beverly

We’re relieved that the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia doesn’t rank with other recent disasters like the flooding in Pakistan. It’s not even going to cause disruption on the [...]

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Categories: Global, News, Subjects, The Iggy Blog
Ted proposes!!! Photo Credit: Joyce Lim/MTV Iggy
USA
Posted by: Sunny Kim

Let me start off by saying that this was not your ordinary concert — out of the 8 performers, only 3 were actual singers. The very first performer, David Garibaldi, [...]

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Categories: Bands on Tour, Celebs, Events, Global, Music, Reviews, Subjects, The Iggy Blog
Stone Foxes  Photo: Loomis and the Lust
USA
Posted by: MTV Iggy

Wow! It’s been one busy week in Loomis-Land! Our album came out on Tuesday and our video for “ADD” has been rising the YouTube charts around the world. What a [...]

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Photo Credit: Strong Heart
Seoul,Korea
Posted by: Sunny Kim

I haven’t laughed this much in a while. SHINee’s Minho appeared on the August 31st episode of Strong Heart and caused a lot of laughter in the studio. It’s known [...]

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Photo Credit: Johnny's
Japan
Posted by: Sunny Kim

Congratulations Tomaaaa! At the age of 25 after starring in several hit dramas, Ikuta Toma has finally graduated from Johnny’s Jr. Ikuta Toma has more than 20 television and film [...]

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Artist Cyrus Kabiru's shades.  Photo: makerfaireafrica.com
Nairobi,Kenya
Posted by: Beverly

Well, Kenya has the coolest geeks this week at least, as inventors and hackers from all over Africa descend on Nairobi for the annual Maker Faire Africa. There are maker [...]

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Categories: Art, Events, Global, News, Subjects, The Iggy Blog
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USA
Posted by: GT

Bambu dropped this EP earlier this year as something of a prelude to his upcoming exit album which he has been stating to be his last. He’s been in the game [...]

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Categories: Global, Music, Reviews, Subjects, The Iggy Blog
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USA
Posted by: GT

It’s encouraging to see indie artists put out material with higher production values. In that sense, it looks like linking up with 454 was a good move for IZ because [...]

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Categories: Global, Music, The Iggy Blog
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