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"Given the long military hiatus for the full group, this upcoming comeback is expected to have a massive global impact across all fronts — music streaming, album sales, and concerts," Yoo added.

Uhhh, do we have to?

I understand that these SK guys being in the Army in order to defend their nation against the threat Kimmy's Kingdom but let's not and say we did. Time for everyone involved to move on. That includes musical tastes.

Delighted fans from around the world had gathered as early as 3 a.m., hoping to catch a glimpse of their idols.

"I think I'm gonna cry," Anaisa Silva, 30, a hotel receptionist from Portugal, told AFP.

"I am an ARMY of nine years and this is the first time I'm seeing them," she said, referring to BTS's fandom by its official name.

"We couldn't sleep!" said Rosie Tanquilut, a 64-year-old fan from the Philippines. "We've been counting the days since they entered military."

Fans aged 64, 30? For these lip-synchers? It's bad enough here in America that New Kids on the Block still exist, just lip-synched in my hometown last fall in fact.

My Sweet Lord!

stormcrowToday  07:48 am JST

When most of the victims being killed are civilians instead of enemies, it’s time to re-examine your methods in battling Hamas. Remember, that’s what distinguishes you from Hamas, otherwise, you’re no better than they are.

Does anybody remember how Hamas started this war by surprise in October 2023? And what has happened with those Israeli hostages? Still in captivity. Netanyahu doesn't care about that, he's making excuses to wage a war where everybody but Hamas is being targeted. Gazans 0 men, women, children who did nothing wrong. Blocking aid sent for them. Air strikes over Beirut, Lebanon - as if they asked for it.

Israel has every right to exist and defend itself, but it has the wrong man at the helm. There are no winners in this war. It's sad.

Springsteen is no stranger to Berlin. In July 1988, he became one of the first Western musicians to perform in East Germany, performing to a ravenous crowd of 160,000 East Germans yearning for American rock ’n’ roll and the freedom it represented to the youth living under the crumbling communist regime.

I remember that time so fondly. There were other rock'n'rollers who performed behind the Iron Curtain, from Iron Maiden to Joan Jett to the Moscow Peace Festival of summer 1989 f/ Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Alice Cooper and more. Pink Floyd became 'Still First in Space' when a French astronaut brought two PF tapes aboard when he guested on a Soviet space mission. Incredible times!

Bruce is right. His songs are observational, often in other narratives but still a picture of what he sees around him. All good songwriters do that. Prince's 'Sign O' the Times' is another vivid example.

trump keeps screaming like the uncouth geek that he is, and he needs to shut his damn hateful mouth. Of course he's been sassing off about Bruce lately too. Then again, Diaper Don sasses off about everybody, he's such a juvenile brat.

We need to resist the crime, tyranny, evils and crap that plague us today. Give him hell, Boss!

A studio genius. His harmony and studio techniques inspired many bands of many genres. Just listen to some of those YES albums, many 'multi-stacked' harmonies on them. The Beach Boys greatly influenced psychedelic rock, bands like Pink Floyd owe a debt to them for that. Punk rock was inspired by the Beach Boys, ask the Ramones about that. They said so.

People here in the Midwest US think that this band is just 'oldies' surf, suntans, girls and that's it. But Brian took it much farther, esp. with 'Pet Sounds' and beyond. Like the Beatles, he was writing about personal themes, alienation, more 'serious' subjects. If you went to a Beach Boys show in California, the entire spectrum was there - surfers, surf punks, bikers, thrashers, Deadheads, Phish heads, Heep heads, rasta men, soul men, funkateers, proggers, people of Any Color You Like, every ethnicity and race, straight and gay; ALL. The whole enchilada. California is a mixed bag of many musical styles but Brian Wilson ranks with Jerry Garcia in terms of cultural impact. And his revolutionary studio and recording techniques puts him in the same league as Prince.

The Beach Boys were my little sister's very show in 1984 and my fifth in 1987. My pink ticket stub says it cost $12! I saw them one more time and I saw Brian solo in 2019. Sad to say he was a bit of a wreck, he just sang the choruses and played his white baby grand while other 'Beachies' handled the rest.

He's made some good 'art pop/rock' solo CDs, as well as 'Smile!'. I have a few of them and they truly reflect the creative musical genius that he had, and the other Boys don't.

Alzheimer's has taken another entertainer away from us. This is a sad day for rock'n'roll, music and culture. Brian Wilson IS California. May he RIP, and he can jam with the funkmeister Sly Stone in Rock'n'Roll Heaven - who just entered there the other day.

I remember us singing 'Different Strokes' in elementary school music class. Then when I was a HS teen Joan Jett made a hit with her version. All 3 times I've seen her live she played it. It's too good for a Toyota TV ad, however. A bonafide classic. RIP Sly Stone.

James Dean Jr.June 4  09:20 am JST

“Women with broken dreams”? No—women with broken trust, broken boundaries, and the guts to face the man who broke them. Weinstein’s defense isn’t just tone-deaf, it’s a masterclass in victim-blaming. These women didn’t lose their dreams—they had them cornered, coerced, and violated. And no courtroom circus can spin that into consent.

Victim-shaming. The same old song and dance. Weinstein destroyed many woman stars' dreams with his ego nd sex crimes. He needs to shut his damn mouth. Rapists are all trash.

Something like this happened in my home state a couple of years ago. Some idiot left her two babies in a running car while drinking in a bar. The car was stolen and the cops went on an alert. The wintry weather was very harsh, one child survived and the other didn't.

No excuses for this neglectful behavior!

GarthgoyleJune 2  04:50 pm JST

So sad. My condolences to the parents and immediate family. They must be devastated, specially the dad.

> SanjinosebleedJune 2  05:36 pm JST

Every parent’s nightmare! Poor little guy!

Sad and tragic.

MarkXJune 4  07:47 am JST

They are just copycats of the same thing that is going on in the US. Just google it and you will see many videos of the same stunts. I think in the US they are more dangerous weaving at cars and at the last second pulling away. Just throw down spike strips burst their tires and their short lived fame!

Not 'terrorizing'. Just showing off, maybe playing 'chicken' with motorists. Playing with loaded dice. When I was 11 years old somebody pulled that stunt and got killed. Not a smart idea.

GuruMickJune 4  09:13 am JST

But Trump is taking all the spare cash for the iron dome

America is not so great with that Butthead Maximus in control.

GuruMickJune 4  09:40 am JST

Seriously, so it IS possible for nations to help each other in ways that do not involve war .

Well done.

Even more now than ever. Sassybrat Chump won't help any other nation, not even the USA. All he cares for is his own warped evil self.

James Dean Jr.June 4  09:15 am JST

Arnie’s laying it out like only he can—no excuses, no whining, just action. We want a better future? Come with me if you want to live. Because sitting around waiting for someone else to fix the climate isn’t a plan, it’s surrender. It’s in our nature to destroy ourselves, sure—but it doesn’t have to be. Show up. Plant something. Build something. Be something. And to the doubters dragging their feet? Just remember: I’ll be back—with solar panels.

Gov. Arnie passed legislation so that California would 'go greener'. It's not 'political', it's just common sense which trump doesn't have.

'There's no time to waste, you just do it, do it for yourself. I said "Everybody's done on their knees. Listen like thieves". But who needs that?.....'. - INXS

And who needs trump? He just sez, 'California needs to rake better! Bluh!' in response to those forest fires.

Ignore that brat! Take some action! His 'authority' is not valid and since Chump is a quisling and insurrectionist, that only proves that anything he says or does is illegal and should be ignored. trumpChump IS NOT the POTUS. Nothing he does or advocates is legit.

This piece of crap should already be sent to musical jail, directly to jail, do not pass 'GO', do not collect $200 if for nothing else, plagiarizing my generation's classic Police song by stealing its groove and jibber-jabbing a tribute rap in honor of a gangsta rapper who sassed off his mouth about another one on the opposite US coast and bragged about his phallus like a brat kid; and then got offed for it.

And over the decades Sean Pee-Pee Diddy Doo-Doo Doo-Wop Oh WTH has been openly and arrogantly showing his ill-gotten wealth and putting out crap music under all those names.

And all these women coming forth with these allegations is no conspiracy or smear campaign. At least ONE of them is right! That's how Harvey Weinstein got jailed, same for Bill Cosby (63 allegations), R Kelly, Epstein, and a rape conviction for Donald trump + 31 convictions for paying hush money to a ho who spanked him.

And I don't doubt any of these allegations. At least one of them is true,

Remember what the lawyer Al Capone said about his client in the climatic end of 'And Justice For All'. Guilty!

I remember 40 years ago when the revolutionary animated video for 'Take On Me' was shown in cinemas as well as MTV, VH-1, etc. It soon zoomed to #1 in several nations, incl. the USA. It is a classic by every sense of the word. Not only did it emphasize how video killed the radio star, but it also emphasized evolution in animation and video technology (I know). It became a template for other bands.

Once again, another door to my youth is starting to close on me,,,,,, time can be sad.

Stephen King is such a master writer. He uses so many deep cultural references and piles them up so that the supernatural becomes 'real' to the reader. He digs deep into characters' minds, esp. the villians. Movies cannot capture the gist of his books but sometimes they come close.

Aly RustomToday  08:21 am JST

Elon Musk didn’t have a baby with J-pop legend Ayumi Hamasaki, she’d like you to know

Oh good! I can sleep better at night now knowing that.

That's the kind of junk that 'Entertainment Tonight' featured all the time. When that show started up it was interesting. I was a teenager. Then the New Age wussy Johnny Tesh took over and I moved on in my life.

Now this pap 'news' is featured in the American mainstream 'news'. Walter Cronkite is spinning in his grave. And Dan Rather, we need you!

And even if Muskrat did have a kid with a J-pop singer, God forbid what name it might have! His son with the Canadian singer Grimes is named 'X Æ A-Ⅻ Musk'! Ai-yi-yi!

TaiwanIsNotChinaJune 3  07:43 am JST

*Not a bad move to invite Taiwan

No it isn't. Like you said, Taiwan is not China. Taiwan is 'ROC', CCP China is 'PROC'. 'People's'. Big difference.

And if the CCP don't like it, they can stick it where the Rising Sun never shines, Wah!

> Peter NeilToday  08:02 am JST

I said the jobs listing numbers the other day were a ruse. 7 million job openings, but only 37,000 hired in the entire country in May, the lowest in two years.

The bond market, yields and decline of the dollar will pull $2 trillion out of the US.

A net decline in trades and manufacturing jobs. The Golden Age of Trump will only get worse. Hold on to your hat. The King of Bankruptcies is at it again.

This is what you get when that Failure in Life is at the helm, and all these tariffs are just his expressions of self-loathing and his stinking his diapers. He knows he's trash, and he's determined to bring everybody down with him!

Revealing history. Just a few years ago carbon dating and tree rings further solidified the fact that Norsemen had explored and mapped North America during the 10th century. Long before Columbus came and spoiled the party.

alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and cast doubts on the legitimacy of his use of the autopen to sign pardons and other documents.

This is egotistical and corrupt BS of the highest degree.

During the 80s, esp. during his second term Ronald Reagan had the early stages of Alzheimer's before there was a name for it. Still, he managed to run things smooth enough, although that Iran-Contra affair was a sneaky trick behind his back.

Trump has no right to say anything about Joe Biden or anything he did. As it is, since trump is Putin's lackey and is a Russian sputnik and an insurrectionist; that disqualifies him from doing or saying anything at all about Joe or anybody else for that matter.

Leave Joe alone, brat!

'Ex-aide'? Don't make me puke. Elon is a totalitarian svengali and a billionaire skank. Since he installed the Diaper-Stinking Mussolini back into the WH, he isn't going to 'give it up'.

This reeks of the 'National Reorganization Process' fascist regime of Argentina, 1976 - 1983.

America by every dystopian and cyberpunk forecast in all those novels has become an Orwellian nation.

Gaza is stuck between a hard place and a rock. The Hamas scum who started this sick war, the corrupt Benjamin Nutty Yahoo who doesn't care for those Israeli hostages or for anybody, and the greedy Russian trump who wants to turn Gaza into another egocentric resort with his rotten despicable name on it.

As it is, with Traitortrump appointing that stooge Dorothy Shea as UN Ambassador says plenty. Since she is a lacky she has no right to say any veto or use any veto power whatsoever since she's trump's parrot and she needs to shut up. She has no opinion at all, and it's not valid!

There should be some sensible standard for baby naming, one that won't be humiliating and/or confusing.

Elon Muskrat and singer Grimes had a baby boy. California law demands that numbers not be used so nonetheless the unlucky son's official name is 'X Æ A-Ⅻ Musk'.

And the poor kid already has it bad. His excuse of a father won't be raising him anyway, not with handling trump on his leash and Space X, X for the hotheads and those ugly Tesla junk cars.

Bob FosseJune 4  07:29 am JST

“which he wants to complete by the end of his term in 2029. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Golden Dome could cost $831 billion over two decades.”

I think the latter is far more likely than the former. As should anybody.

You think this usurping Caligula is even going to 'step down' in 2029? He has repeatedly mentioned a 'third term' and don't be surprised if he makes himself President For Life.

You can't trust this liar for anything. Any foreign head of state trying to have diplomatic talk with this brat is just wasting their time.

And this 'Golden Dome' blizzblazz is a 'Golden Shower' and a joke. All that moolah is going to go his pockets to pay his legal costs, not to mention that Ego Parade he wants so damn bad on Flag Day this month.

Do NOT trust trump or believe anything he says!!!!!

GarthgoyleToday  09:00 am JST

It is common knowledge that if Russia stopped invading and killing civilians, attacking them apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, buses with passengers on their way to work, bringing soldiers from a different nation to help in the invasion, the war would end.

But Ukraine attacks the same bombers Russia's been using to kill everyone, oh, Ukrainians are terrorist that don't want peace...

LOL. trumpyboy has been promoting himself as a 'peacemaker'. First by demanding Zel kiss his butt, which Zel did not do. And now since the Ukes really walloped Russia bigtime! With drones, probably built by the good ol' USA during the 'Slow Joe' era; or maybe other nations in the 'obsolete' NATO alliance.

Trump has been unusually silent on the Ukrainian attacks on the Russian bombers - one of the three pillars of Russia's nuclear arsenal - though Moscow demanded that the United States and Britain restrain Ukraine.

That's because he is Putin's puppet and his master got slapped! As it is, trump is a disgraceful traitor; and his uncouth and diplomatic manner from the first term shows that he has no right to even open his hateful stupid big treasonous Pac-Man yapper.

The White House has said Trump was not informed of Ukraine's drone attack before it unfolded.

After that crappy meeting with Zel, why would or should he inform der Diaper-Stinking Fuehrer about that huge drone assault, or for that matter anything? Don the Con is caught between a rock and a hard place now. He sasses off Zel who won't give in to his blubberbutt kissazz demands. Now Ukraine has belted Putin's Russia right across the chops. So of course, Master Putin childishly is talking 'revenge' but he got STUNG.

And his slave Donnie also has doo-doo all over his face! A big disgrace. Well just recently he made a measure trying to reimpose his pompous phony 'tough' image. He just imposed an entry ban on citizens from several 'craphole' nations again. Russia isn't on that 'banned' list (gee, wonder why?), neither is South Africa. Nor are any nations with white majorities. True colors shining through and they're not beautiful.

lostrune2Today  12:31 pm JST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OllsOnjNPOc

Making your way in the world today

Takes everything you've got

....

You wanna go where everybody knows your name

That song was dubbed with additional instruments, and the original lyrics were used (they were ahem a bit too kooky for use as a TV theme). That song charted in the Hot 100 at #83 during the winter of 1984. It had lines such as

'Singin' the blues when the Red Sox lose,

it's a crisis in your life.

On the run 'cause all your girlfriends

wanna be your wife.

And the laundry ticket's in the wash.....

And there's more to that one too.

Gary Portney wrote it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Everybody_Knows_Your_Name

That show went off the air this week in 1993. I just 'knew' at the time that TV comedy would never be the same, a corner had been turned. The next year in a college Shakespeare class I 'deducted' (correctly) that Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin were partially based on Rosencrans and Guildenstern. That was a fun show and I miss it. And Norm will be too. RIP. 

P.S. I actually got to see the show's namesake when I visited Boston in 2019. It's on Beacon Street.

I'veSeenFootageMay 6  06:28 am JST

"The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States," Trump wrote Sunday.

And the best way to counter that is to give more tax incentives to boost local production, not use meaningless punitive tariffs, you absolute cretin.

Yes. trump is a lippy chump. He's too narrow minded and stupid to realize that the biggest problem is that Hollywood has totally run out of ideas. And let's face it, so many films are cheaper to make overseas because it's more cost effective and the US dollar value is so much better overseas in many cases. Cost effective and cheaper to produce. After all, many scenes from STAR WARS were filmed in Tunisia.

trump is so egotistical and dumb. Isn't he supposed to have a college degree in business or economic science or something in that wavelength? Oh yeah, six failed businesses. Excuse me.............

Arashi is one of the most successful idol groups created by giant entertainment agency Johnny & Associates Inc., now known as Starto Entertainment Inc.

Not a true band, a bunch poser hosers prancing + lip-synching to a drum machine that someone else programmed.

JayToday  08:58 am JST

Congrats to Arashi - usually being able to sing, dance, or outgrow your prepubescent carb face is a huge barrier to a career in show business. Most people need actual talent, so more power to them, I guess.

Last year I saw the true band from Germany Kraftwerk who changed the world. They've been around for over 50 years but they're even better now than ever. And in the same district (there are more than one arena in that city district) an electronic billboard was screaming an ad for NKOTB playing there later that year.

Kraftwerk revolutionized rock'n'roll and yet these phony 'New Kids' chumps are still around, stealing moolah when they should've given it up long ago.

"The environment surrounding us has changed," as have each member's circumstances, the group said in a post on its official social media accounts and on an official fan website.

They might have a future 'reunion' tour (yen talks!) or maybe solo 'careers' like Justin Tinkerbell has done.

I'veSeenFootageToday  07:17 am JST

Sad news for lonely Japanese middle-aged women and people who like terrible music.

Start Entertainment will churn out another manufactured 'band'. It's truly 'Money For Nothing' now as Dire Straits predicted.

Why so long? Certain riffs may come previous sources but I never heard of Chuck Berry suing so many guitarists for using the chords + riffs he pioneered in.

I heard in college about a similar case concerning George Harrison and 'My Sweet Lord' but that was clearly a BS case of the Beatles' former accountant losing a lawsuit for stealing from them.

I'm not a music or legal buff but this sounds trivial to me.

bass4funkMay 4  10:41 pm JST

When the Incestuous Iscariot Donald used that song for his 2016 campaign, REM wrote a very explicitly angry cease + desist to the trump campaign about it on Twitter. REM hurled plenty of obscenities at him and his staff, and they deserved it. 

He laughed it off and found other music, no sweat to the man. They are an alternative rock band, not God, and they can say whatever they want. They didn't want Trump to use their music, so what? Move on.

Most musicians didn't want him using their music either. Everyone from REM, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Prince estate, Tom Petty estate, etc.

Yes it does. Even though one of the last albums took indirect potshots at Bush 2, that all was nothing compared to how things are now.

Exactly.

Bush 2 got nicknamed 'Dumbya' but he's not a fascist brat pig.

Slow down, buddy! I remember when Bush was President the vitriol was so bad towards that man, nasty and vile, just disgusting, and this site was no better, so even back then, you guys were saying crazy things about the man, I faulted Bush for not fighting back and allowing his enemies to define him,

The main problem with Bush 2 was he followed the advice of his greedy businessman VP Dick Cheney. The Iraq war was wasteful and Dumb. Ignoring the Taliban was Dumb. Of course, there was the factor of Saddam Hussein trying to kill his father ex-Pres. George Bush in 1993, which was Dumb on Saddam's part. That Dumb failed assassination attempt put Saddam on Clinton's 'Hit List'. And that led to further wars in the Middle East like Clinton's Operational Desert Fox in 1998, which conveniently diverted attention from that Dumb sex scandal. Gotta show that you're tuff tuff tuff-tuff tuff-tuff!

From Clinton to today, Dumbness all around.

Nor is he a quisling.

No, Clinton, Bush 2 are not quislings. Neither is Obama, or any POTUS before. None of them.

Hmm... 

I grew up with REM, and I love that band very much. They're unique, one of a kind.

Yes, they are, but despite being Ultra liberal and having sometimes warped, they should stick to doing what they do best and just play music, anytime a musician speaks their mind about politics, no one cares and the reason is, they are musicians, how and what they think politically is totally irrelevant.

Good musicians write about what they see around them. It may or may not be a 'conservative' or 'liberal' p.o.v. After all, foreign bands look at the U.S.A, from an 'outside' angle. U2 is an excellent example of that. Bruce Springsteen writes about abuses that lawgivers and society from both sides of the fence have done and do. So has Prince, the Rolling Stones, Genesis and more; without endorsing a candidate.

And what REM is doing here isn't endorsing anyone either, it's rebelling against a wrong. Radio Free Europe is an important factor in what brought down the Iron Curtain and Eastern European Communism. I was glad to see it fall! And we still need it, to counteract the jerks like Putin. I'm sure it might've been effective against Yugoslavia too in the 90s. Remember Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudman and the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia?

Well, those two were fascist pigs themselves and tRump is, is.......uh, never mind. He's a fascist pig himself. Birds a feather. What would expect from a Chump like that? Excusem moi.