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Stars: ★★★★ Grill5Taco is a chained Mexican restaurant in South Korea. It started as a food truck and expanded into restaurants. The specific location that is being reviewed is the one owned by the singer/actor Donghae (of Super Junior) in the affluent Cheongdam-dong neighborhood. While the food here is delicious, it is not considered authentic Mexican food. The dishes served…
Akdong Musician, winners of K-Pop Star 2, will be officially debuting with their first album. The duo recently revealed a teaser image and teaser music video for their upcoming debut on April 7th, which will mark a year after their victory on the singing competition show. YG Entertainment announced that Akdong Musician will be promoting three title tracks that will include…
Crayon Pop rolls out their latest music video, “Uh-ee.” Ever since “Bar Bar Bar,” Crayon Pop has been growing strong and gaining recognition both domestically and worldwide. The group returns with a new style—moving away from their Bar Bar Bar helmets and anime-like costumes but with the same quirky image that they are known for. Dressed as cleaning ladies at…
Capsule’s Yasutaka Nakata created an official remix of “Into The Blue”, the lead single from Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue’s latest album. The song is featured as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of “Kiss Me Once” Yasutaka Nakata has worked with Kylie Minogue before remixing “Get Outta My Way” from her album “Aphrodite.” Listen Here. Nakata’s remix takes…
Big Phony unveils a double feature with Long Live The Lie and Bobby. Long Live The Lie is quite different from what avid listeners of Big Phony are accustomed to while Bobby is more of what fans may be used to and is all about him. Big Phony experiments with electronic sounds in this album; this album sounds a bit folk and a bit electronica.…
Always showing interest in Korean entertainment, Jackie Chan announced that he will debut a new male idol group called JJCC (Double JC). Sometime in mid-March, Jackie Chan will debut a five-member male idol group. The group consists of four Korean and one Chinese members in their early 20s with the average height of 180 centimeters. Jackie Chan has participated in…
HypnoticAsia has an exclusive interview with Korean Indie Punk band Crying Nut! They’ll be returning to the U.S. for their tour and to play at SXSW yet again this year. Through this interview, the members speak about their upcoming U.S. Tour, what they want to do here, their set list, and what it was like performing at SXSW back in…
HypnoticAsia holds an exclusive interview with Dawen! Dawen is a singer-songwriter from Chicago before moving to Los Angeles for 4 years and living as an independent artist. Now, the singer signs with Universal Music Taiwan and has debuted his first major label album in Mandarin Chinese entitled “Hello.” Back in 2010, Dawen competed at Kollaboration Acoustic 4 and received the…
What is “Substance without Style”? Jason Chu brings you on a journey in this first track, “Free.” Free in this song has many connotations. His desire for freedom in this song is a freedom from expectation, from judgements due to his race, and freedom from fear to speak his truth. He summarizes his journey as a rapper, growing and expanding…
HypnoticAsia’s exclusive interview with Jason Chu! All the information you need to know about the artist and his upcoming album “Millennial.” Chu is an Asian-American hip-hop artist based in LA with the mission, “to speak about the world he sees, a world filled with the struggle between joy and cynicism, greed and hope, hurt and healing.” His music is…