Former ‘Voice of Korea’ contestant releases debut single

Hye-rim from popular girl group Wonder Girls will star in the K-pop segment of EBS FM’s new English radio program “English Go Go.” The singer will join the show every Wednesday for the live video webcast portion of the program. According to EBS, Hye-rim will sing different genres of music including dance, ballads, and trot in English. The K-pop segment will allow listeners to participate in the program. Once every month, listeners will be able to call in to sing popular English pop songs in Kore

Team H, comprised of hallyu actor Jang Geun-suk and music partner Big Brother, kicked off its first world tour “2013 Team H Party ― I Just Wanna Have Fun” in Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Japan on Feb. 23-24. The concerts drew some 10,000 fans, according to Tree J Company, the group’s management agency, Monday.The team sang songs from its new EP, “Lounge H, The First Impression” and new songs from their upcoming album “I Just Wanna Have Fun,” slated to be released on Wednesday.“We staged the conce

Singer-songwriter releases EP ‘Romantica’

Janet Jackson knows how to keep a secret: The singer has been married since last year.A representative for Jackson confirmed Monday that the musician and Wissam Al Mana wed last year.This is Jackson's second secret marriage. She secretly married Rene Elizondo Jr. in 1991. They separated in 1999.The 46-year-old Jackson first tied the knot when she was 18 to singer James DeBarge, which lasted three months in 1984.In a joint statement to Entertainment Tonight, Jackson and Al Mana said their wedding

NEW YORK (AP) ― While Lorin Maazel isn’t slowing down, his tempi are based on the performance of Verdi’s “Don Carlo’’ he led to mark the 50th anniversary season of his Metropolitan Opera debut.Now 82, the former music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic conducted an alternately elegant and disjointed opening of the revival Friday night. The spectacle of the third act auto-da-fe was spacious, the trumpets grand. Confrontations were charged.

G-Dragon, the lead singer of popular K-pop group Big Bang, will kick off his solo world tour, “G-Dragon 2013 World Tour: One of a Kind,” on March 30-31 at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul.Big Bang recently held their world tour, “2012 Big Bang Alive Galaxy Tour,” where they met with fans from all over the world. After the group completed the tour, YG Entertainment announced G-Dragon’s 1st world tour with a poster through an official me2day posting on Jan. 12.“2013, G-DRAGON’s first world to

Iceage prove their worth on sophomore CDIceage``You‘re Nothing’‘(Matador Records)The second album from the four Danish lads known as Iceage is an even more caustic slab of brooding punk than their blindsiding first record. ``You’re Nothing‘’ rails against excess, manufactured pressure and the general decimation of morality.Alternating between urgent calls to act (“Coalition‘’) and a bruised motivation (”Wounded Hearts‘’), these songs devolve and instruments claw for space, fueling the unbridled

LONDON (AP) ― British music put on a brash, confident show at the Brit Awards on Wednesday, celebrating a resurgent industry whose bands and artists are topping charts around the globe.Winners ranged from established acts such as Coldplay and Adele to world-conquering boy band One Direction, who won in the new Global Success category.One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson called the prize “absolutely mind-blowing.”American artists Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey were among the non-British winners at a cer

With Alkan, Kapustin on the playlist, pianist set to enthrall audience with contrasting, new music

There will be a British invasion of the main stage at Bonnaroo this year.Paul McCartney and Mumford & Sons are among the headliners for the 2013 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.The four-day festival, held on a rural 700-acre farm, always features an eclectic roster, but the June 13-16 event is even more varied than usual.Returnees Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers also hold down a headliner spot. Then things get a little crazy with R&B star R. Kelly, alternative queen Bjork a

New talent comes and goes every day in the cutthroat business of entertainment, and many of these star hopefuls never make it to the stage before they are given the pink slip. YG Entertainment, one of the largest and most powerful K-pop agencies here, said earlier this week that the highly anticipated new girl group SuPearls, who had been scheduled to debut this year, has in fact broken up. The fate of three of the four former SuPearls members remains to be seen.“We have decided to nullify our c

Korean pop star Psy is set to visit Turkey for the first time to attend the Istanbul Blue Night festival.Psy will arrive on the first day of the two-day festival that starts Feb. 20, the singer’s agency YG Entertainment said. Psy’s world hit “Gangnam Style” also gained popularity in Turkey, with the country ranking fourth in terms of hits among countries that viewed the music video last year. “Psy is very excited to visit Turkey for the first time and said he will heat up the Istanbul Blue Night

Singer Billy McKnight says the suicide of country star Mindy McCready, his ex-girlfriend, at her Arkansas home was not “a major shock.”The former couple had fought for years over custody of their 6-year-old son Zander, who was placed in foster care along with his 10-month-old brother Zayne, this month. McCready‘s family said she had been drinking and using drugs again, and wasn’t caring for her children.The baby‘s father, McCready’s then-fiance David Wilson, was found dead of a gunshot wound in

A U.S. porn studio Vivid Entertainment decided to indefinitely halt the selling of deceased singer Mindy McCready’s sex tape, according to local news reports.“Digital distribution is hard to regulate but we plan to pull all the digital copies of the video from the website,” the company’s chief Steve Hirsch was reported as saying.The tape, titled “Baseball Mistress,” features the late singer and her then-boyfriend. In the video, McCready also discusses her alleged affair in 2008 with disgraced fo