K-pop star BamBam performs at halftime of the Golden State Warriors’ game against the Los Angeles Lakers at Chase Center in San Francisco on April 7, 2022. Onome Uyovbievbo/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO —K-pop superstar BamBam wowed a sold-out crowd of fans watching NBA basketball between the Golden State Warriors and…

TWICE performs at Oakland Arena in Oakland, Calif. on Feb. 18, 2022. Courtesy JYP Entertainment. OAKLAND — K-pop group TWICE sold out all five initially announced U.S. shows on its current “III” tour within a few hours of tickets going on sale. The nine women in the group had…

The Dreaming is the second all-English album release by Monsta X, following last year’s All About Luv. This new album showcases the South Korean pop group’s versatility and is full of uptempo songs about heartbreak and revival. The Dreaming Monsta X Starship Entertainment, Dec. 10 7/10 The album intro,…

Lee Chae-rin, better known as CL, is one of the most formidable female artists in the K-Pop industry to date. After breaking away from the popular second generation mega girl group 2NE1 (YG Entertainment) to focus on her own work, CL continued to make a name for herself by…

88rising founder and CEO Sean Miyashiro, courtesy. Sean Miyashiro looks at 88rising’s partnership with the makers of Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” as a case of “worlds colliding.” The 40-year-old CEO and president of the wildly successful Asian art and music company—a San Jose native—said…

Insert Foot discovers BTS. Editor’s note: Work with us here… Mr. Insert Foot, in many ways, is like RIFF’s curmudgeonly dad. He’s open to new ideas, but it takes a while! Next month, we’ll talk to him about the 23-member NCT. I was messing around the other day (working)…

K-pop superstars NCT 127 on Thursday night announced their forthcoming sophomore album, NCT #127 Neo Zone. The album will be released on March 6 and come in three physical formats with distinctive packaging. The Seoul-based group, whose music has been streamed more than 1 billion times, will release an “N,”…

SuperM performs at at The Forum in Inglewood, California, on Feb. 1, 2020. Courtesy SM Entertainment. SAN JOSE —Composed of members from four groups, SuperM has been dubbed the “Avengers of K-Pop,” in reference to the Marvel Universe films. The seven-member group was plenty super at its nearly sold-out…

Seventeen (SVT) performs on the Ode to You World Tour at the SAP Center in San Jose on Jan. 21, 2020. Steve Carlson/Staff. SAN JOSE — South Korean boy band Seventeen , also known as SVT, made its long-awaited—though short-handed—debut in the Bay Area on Tuesday at the SAP Center, the sixth…

Amber Liu performs at the Warfield in San Francisco on Jan. 18, 2020. Onome Uyovbievbo/Staff. SAN FRANCISCO — Los-Angeles-born singer-songwriter Amber Liu, formerly of successful K-Pop group f(x), was all smiles at The Warfield on Saturday, the second night of her second tour as a solo artist. Liu, who…