A new year is upon us and new music with that. The music bloggers of the Music Alliance Pact return also in 2016, on the 15th of every month, ready… Continue reading
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Nuits Sonores: Cool Korea @ Lyon, France
For the 2016 edition of electronic music festival Nuit Sonoroes in Lyon, France, Années croisées France-Corée du Sud together with Institut Français arrange a special program under the name Cool Korea ! Carte Blanche à Séoul. The line-up for the festival will be announced on February 3, but already the 12 Korean bands coming over to perform have been named.
Continue readingGaon Charts 2015
Korea’s national music chart Gaon has published its charts for 2015. It was the year of Hyukoh for sure, something clearly visible on all the charts. Gaon Korean Album Chart… Continue reading
IROK’s 8th Anniversary
January 10, 2016 marked the 8th anniversary of Indieful ROK and it has again become time to say thank you. As always, I continue to be humbled by and grateful… Continue reading
Top Band 3: Top 8 Final Audition
Indieful ROK’s Top Band 3 commentary series continues, albeit at the moment a couple of months behind the original KBS2 broadcast schedule. Today myself and Kevin have a look at… Continue reading
Gaon Charts December 2015
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for December this Thursday. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart Picking… Continue reading
Top Band 3: Shin Dae Chul’s Group Contest
As KBS2 launched season 3 of band survival show Top Band, Indieful ROK launched the Top Band 3 commentary series. The autumn, however, saw the commentary series falling far behind… Continue reading
Gaon Charts November 2015
Here comes the last piece of catching up on what’s been going on with Korean indie music on Korea’s national music charts from Gaon. Following October, just a day before… Continue reading
Best of 2015: Aggregate Edition
Honoring Indieful ROK’s original intent of being a manual aggregator of sorts, I’ve had a look at what some Korean music blogs around have listed as the best releases of… Continue reading
Anna’s Best of 2015 – Statistics Edition
2015 has come to an end. It was a kind of strange year for me, something that at times has been very obvious from the music I’ve been listening to… Continue reading