While technically not ROK music, I have been known to take an interest in music from north of the border as well. As such I was very happy to find that today fellow MAP bloggers at The Guardian launched a series to look into the North Korean music scene: Pyongyang goes pop: Inside North Korea’s… Continue reading
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Korean Music Awards 2011 nominees
I was gonna start this post by saying that although the nominees for this year’s Korean Music Awards were announced January 25, as usual the KMA site has yet to be updated but as it turns out there has just been a change in address to spell out the full name… Anyhow, bo-da has compiled… Continue reading
Last ever Club Day to take place this January
Today Mark Russell shared the news on Korea Gig Guide that after this Friday Club Day is no more: Annyeong, Club Day. For the last 10 years Club Day has been a monthly happening in Hongdae – usually taking place on the last Friday of every month – and it has offered an opportunity to… Continue reading
Moonlight Nymph and compensation for indie musicians
At the very beginning of November last year news came that “Moonlight Nymph in critical state with cerebral hemorrhage“. A few days later it was followed by “Moonlight Nymph Deceased“. Today Korea Gig Guide reports that more than 100 bands will play in his honor this Thursday: 23 Hongdae Clubs Unite to Remember Lee Jinwon…. Continue reading
EE to perform at Coachella 2011
Apollo 18 and the Seoulsonic bands won’t be the only Korean acts making it to North American festivals this year. Yesterday word came that Indieful ROK’s favorite electronic act EE will be making it to California and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival mid-April. They’ll be going there as one of the groups collaborating with… Continue reading
Seoul Music Room – new English language k-indie resource
Though it may yet be a little thin on contents, there is now a new English language resource covering Korean indie music: ‘Seoul Music Room’ 서울 뮤직 룸 It is managed by Oliver Philphott, whose own music got a mention here a couple of weeks back. The first post came live two days ago and… Continue reading
3rd Line Butterfly’s Monocle episode
As mentioned previously, 3rd Line Butterfly‘s episode in The Monocole Winter Series is now available: episode 4. The band was playing 걷기만 하네 (Keep Walking), 스물 아홉 문득 (29, Suddenly), 말해요, 우리 (Let’s Talk), 무언가 나의 곁에 (Such a Thing) and 티티카카 (Titicaca) and the hosts also exchanged a few words with both Sung Kiwan… Continue reading
Donawhale guitarist launches new project auhm
Indieful ROK was keeping track of Donawhale guitarist Yoon Sung Hoon‘s solo activities last summer, and today he finally launched his new project, auhm on MySpace. What exactly auhm stands for is reportedly top secret, but the MySpace page of the “ambience guitar player” currently offers 5 post-rockish demo tracks that all sound great.
Bluedawn’s Jeong SangHoon back under own name
Tonight I found myself visiting the website of The Invisible Fish for the first time in a while, and doing so I discovered several interesting things. Turns out that in December the former Bluedawn member released an album called Asphalt Music under his own name, Jeong Sanghoon. Unlike his previous self-released solo works, this 7… Continue reading
Dear Cloud in English for Children of Carnia
Thanks to clumproll leaving a message in Indieful ROK’s shoutbox I learned that Dear Cloud have recored first album song 얼음요새 in English. The song, Ice Fortress, is used as soundtrack for iPhone RPG Inotia 3: Children of Carnia that was released on January 6. Check out the music video on the official YouTube channel… Continue reading