After a week’s planned hiatus I’m back! I have yet to begin the process of catching up properly, but below is what I’ve found of reviews in my feed reader since last time. As for my own doings while gone, the Indieful ROK Facebook page has a photo. During my previous review roundup I was… Continue reading
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Weekly Review Roundup, week 27
Let me start this review roundup with my favorite review this week, The Prophet Blog has produced some well-informed writing concerning Neon Bunny‘s album debut, Seoulight: Introducing… Neon Bunny Another review that caught me by surprise, dug up by Korean rock is real this past week, is one of the music video for 그렇고 그런… Continue reading
Review Roundup week 25-26
Some of the reviews that showed up during the last couple of weeks: First up, let me express my happiness that Chris Park of wakesidevision has come across the third full length album from ZzzAaM:잠 (Zzzaam) – 거울놀이 Review. ZzzAaM was a somewhat experimental electronic/rock band that put out three full length albums from 2000-2004,… Continue reading
Weekend Reading
In order to keep you entertained over the weekend, here is a collection of interviews and other reading material of interest: After something of a hiatus 10asia have resumed its indie 10 series. This time with indie rock band Achime:– [INTERVIEW] Indie band achime – Part 1– [INTERVIEW] Indie band achime – Part 2 Another… Continue reading
Weekly Review Roundup, week 24
Some reviews published during the last week or so: Electro shoegazing band Idiotape released debut EP 0805 on July 13 last year. The title track got a music video and the songs all proved popular during the 2K11 Seoulsonic North America tour in which the band participated. Chris Park has had a listen to the… Continue reading
Weekly Review Roundup, week 23
After finally catching up last week the review roundups are back on a weekly schedule. Here are a couple of reviews that caught my attention last week: On June 7 modern rock band The The returned with a one track digital single called 못믿을 사람. It is the band’s first release since 2009 눈물이 흐르다… Continue reading
Review Roundup, week 15-22
After I finally got around to roundup some random links last week, now that it’s Monday here’s a set of reviews posted during that same period of time: Chris Park of wakesidevision has continued to discover good music through Bandcamp:ECHOED is an act describing itself using the tags “hip hop”, “indie”, “instrumental”, “jazz” and “rock”… Continue reading
Apollo 18 after SXSW
The members of Apollo 18 have been back in Korea already for a couple of weeks now, but memories from the band’s first US tour are still fresh. Kamala-Chan followed up her pre-tour interview with the band with another interview: K-RoK Interview: Apollo 18 – SXSW Follow-Up. Chris Park too followed up his pre-SXSW interview… Continue reading
Weekly Review Roundup, week 14
After becoming smitten by Pika, Chris Park began exploring Loro’s – the band where she, among other things, play the cello:– 로로스 (Loro’s) – Dream(s) Review– 로로스 (Loro’s) – Pax (팍스) Review
Weekly Review Roundup, week 13
Continuing his series of Delispice reviews, refresh_daemon has now shared his thoughts on their 4th and 5th albums:– Replay: Deli Spice – D– Replay: Deli Spice – Espresso Also recently reviewed by refresh_daemon is the second full length album from Nastyona: Inbox: Nastyona – Another Secret During the week that just passed Chris Park became… Continue reading