The monthly Hello Rookie competitions are over for this year. As I haven’t gotten around to covering Hello Rookie month by month, here’s a summary for future reference. Part of the price when winning one of the monthly competitions is to perform on EBS Space 공감. Although the August episode was broadcast on August 20th,… Continue reading
K-Rookies is a competition created by KOCCA–-the Korean state sponsored Korea Creative Culture Agency. The 2015 edition was the 4th in the order, granting 6 bands promotional support for the rest of the year. The final auditions took place at the Olympic Park Muse Live café on July 31st with 12 bands competing for the… Continue reading
The Korean Music Awards are over for this time. The winners were announced yesterday meaning that today it’s time to see how we fared in our predictions. Sangha of Strange Seasons went first, I followed, and then Jung, whom I asked to participate after reading his excellent 2014 in Review series at hellokpop, contributed his… Continue reading
Today, February 26th, the winners of the 12th Korean Music Awards were announced. Unfortunately there was no livestream this year, but the awards ceremony will be broadcast on MBC Music at 9pm on Saturday, March 7th. Without the livestream and no possibility to attend the awards myself, I had to rely on Twitter to… Continue reading
I love sports, but one look at my March Madness brackets or World Cup predictions will tell you that I don’t have the best luck when it comes to predicting outcomes of things. (Super Bowl prop bets would probably ruin me.) But the KMAs? Well, maybe I can get a break here. It’s encouraging to… Continue reading
When the nominees for the 12th Korean Music Awards were announced a couple of weeks ago it was the first time since 2009 that all-new categories were introduced: Best Folk Album (최우수 포크 – 음반) and Best Folk Song (최우수 포크 – 노래). A few hours earlier a Tumblbug campaign to sponsor this year’s prices… Continue reading
The KMAs are just so much fun! Although there are things to question about the awards themselves and all that goes around they always help me find new interesting music that I may otherwise have overlooked–particularly in genres I’m otherwise not keen on exploring on my own. Last week Sangha shared her thoughts on who… Continue reading
Before leaving room for a some other type of blog posts, the series to introduce all the nominees for this year’s Korean Music Awards continues from Artist of the Year yesterday with the nominees for Rookie of the Year today. Crush Crush release his first digital single Red Dress end of 2012. Since then… Continue reading
After Album of the Year and Song of the Year, today we have a look at those who have been nominated for Artist of the Year in this year’s Korean Music Awards. Danpyunsun and the Sailors After performing as a solo artist for several years, Hoegidong Danpysun teamed up with other musicians to form… Continue reading
The nominees for the 12th Korean Music Awards were announced last week. Yesterday we had a look at the albums competing to become Album of the Year and today we’ll continue with the songs that have been nominated for Song of the Year. 9 and the Numbers – “숨바꼭질 (Hider and Seeker)” Five years… Continue reading