Pop and rock
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From tuna fishing to teen love: the producer behind K-pop’s biggest stars
Bumzu is one of the most influential people in K-pop, helping shape South Korea’s multibillion-dollar global m…
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Denise Ho: the Cantopop star and pro-democracy activist arrested in Hong Kong
The singer, who was swept up in a raid on people linked to StandNews, has been an outspoken critic of Beijing …
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China riveted by public row between pop star and former wife
US-born singer-songwriter Wang Leehom accused of infidelity and emotional abuse by Lee JingleiThe highly succe…
- Class issues, Culture, Experimental music, India, Inequality, Music, Pop and rock, South and Central Asia
‘Terrible atrocities continue’: Kapil Seshasayee, the Scottish musician calling out casteism
The multi-genre artist’s bold sound and confrontation of Indian social problems are winning him a growing audi…
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Beyond disco: the Pakistani Brummie siblings who made a lost 80s synth-pop classic
Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh were teenage immigrants blending their Pakistani musical heritage with Pet Shop…
- Class issues, Culture, Dalits, India, Inequality, Music, Pop and rock, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘We will bring change’: the Indian band shaking a cruel caste system
The Casteless Collective are repurposing the bawdy gaana style to confront class conflict – and call out every…
- Censorship, Culture, Experimental music, Festivals, Metal, Music, Music festivals, Nepal, Pop and rock, Society, South and Central Asia, World news, Young people
Himalayan headbangers: in the moshpit with the metalheads of Kathmandu
Nepal’s police used to pick up metal fans and cut their hair or jail them. The country now has its own festiva…
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I have reported on 30 Korean celebrity suicides. The blame game never changes
I dread getting calls in the middle of the night in case it is to tell me about another suicide by a K-drama a…