Jon Caramanica

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Jon Caramanica

For most of the last three years, the most clever, artful and progressive act in K-pop has been NewJeans, a five-member girl group — Danielle, Haerin, Hanni, Hyein and Minji — with an almost preternatural musical and aesthetic sophistication. With one elegantly rendered chart-topping single after another, the artists, who range in age from 16 to 20, seemed invincible.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jon Caramanica

6 hours agoThe White Lotus has gone some weird, dark, amusing, somewhat horrifying places over the last three years, but last night it tread into territory that confirmed a thought many have had this season, “Are they really doing this?” They were, in fact, really doing it. While there were other storylines …

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jon Caramanica

For most of the last three years, the most clever, artful and progressive act in K-pop has been NewJeans, a five-member girl group - Danielle, Haerin, Hanni, Hyein and Minji - with an almost preternatural musical and aesthetic sophistication. With one elegantly rendered chart-topping single after another, the artists, who range in age from 16 to 20, seemed invincible.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jon Caramanica

NowThis week's pop charts don't offer much in the way of new faces, as Kendrick Lamar tops both the Billboard 200 albums chart (with GNX) and the Hot 100 singles chart (with his SZA collaboration "Luther"). But there is one debut worth noting: LISA, a member of the blockbuster K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, …

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jon Caramanica

Memories fade. Documentation disappears. Scenes vanish. When you're busy creating a world, you don't always think about how to preserve it for history. So old fliers and magazines get brittle and crumble, photos get lost, publications go out of business and websites get deleted. It falls to archivists - sometimes from a scene itself, and sometimes an avid follower - to fight that slipperiness. Each of these worthy and memorable books is the product of such work.