On the Indieful ROK SPOT on tbs eFM’s Indie Afternoon this weekend I’ll be talking about The Invisible Fish, so I decided to drop by his site to see if there was anything new – and there was! Turns out the man behind the alias, Jeong Sanghoon, has provided the music for Lim Woo Seong’s… Continue reading
The same people that record the Tribute90 series, where k-indie artists cover 90s k-pop songs, also has another tribute series going under the name Tribute 유재하. As the name states it’s a tribute to the late Yoo Jae Ha – sometimes dubbed the Jeff Buckley of Korea – who died in a car accident at… Continue reading
On a whim I decided to see what happened to those Happy Robot artist musician books announced beginning of the summer. Turns out book number one on The Koxx – ’아이돌’을 꿈꾸는 몽상가들 – was published on July 25, though we have yet to see any of the others in print. Although not a musician… Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago Violet Sweets offered some great news: Mintpaper Compilation vol. 4 is coming. Once again Mint Paper will offer a new themed compilation and following the previous Story of Cats/Dogs, Man and Woman… and Story, and last year’s Life time has come for cafe: night & day. The list of participating… Continue reading
In case you’re equipped with a phone that requires files to be in .m4r format to function as ringtones, here’s a little something for you. As part of it’s Japanese label launching celebration event, today Electric Muse shared Big Baby Driver‘s 38,000km 너머의 빅베이비, Dringe Augh‘s Flair, and Telefly‘s My Bluesas ringtones for free. Find… Continue reading
It would appear Pastel Music has gotten some kind of ad deal with BeautyNet. Last month Korean rock is real shared a commercial for the “2011 Missha Summer Big Sale, featuring Taru‘s Love Today. And earlier this week Pastel Music shared on Twitter that Zitten‘s Secret had been used in a music video like ad… Continue reading
More survival music TV show related news! Early yesterday reports began to come that Indieful ROK’s favorite contestant in MBC’s Star Audition: The Great Birth, Sweet Guerillaz vocalist and Vicious Glare bassist Yang Jungmo, is about to make his pop singer debut. He’s been signed to Crazy Sound, home of No Gi Tae, and his… Continue reading
More news concerning upcoming releases came in via Twitter today:– Blues rock band Lowdown 30 will release a new single next month.– Skate punk band The Strikers have finished mastering their upcoming album, landing at 47 minutes and 31 seconds worth of new music.– Mixing and mastering of the second full length album from Trampauline… Continue reading
Today Fluxus Music shared the news on Twitter that there’ll be a “clean” version of the Break It Down music video from W&Whale as it has been deemed unsuitable for broadcasting on account of it being too violent. The original uncensored version will however still be available for viewing through the fluxus YouTube channel.
A collection of recent news items: Upcoming SBS drama Protect The Boss (보스를 지켜라) will include a scene where Super Kidd bursts into 돈 때문이야~ – a parody of 간 때문이야 from the 우루사 ad featuring soccer player Cha Du-Ri: Superkidd and the Brave Girls to cameo in ‘Protect the Boss’. As a side note… Continue reading