Naver Onstage has consistently brought out high quality live videos showcasing some of Korea’s best musical talents over the past three years. Every Thursday this special project introduces a new artist and the initiative was awarded the Special Committee’s Price at the 2014 Korean Music Awards. Counting a total of 179 episodes, the latest band… Continue reading
Launching his musical career in 1994 through modern rock duo U&Me Blue–sometimes called Korea’s first indie band–Yi Sung Yol made a celebrated solo debut in 2003. His third full-length album Why We Fail came out two years ago and on May 24th he stands ready to offer new album V. Not a typical studio album,… Continue reading
In addition to the weekly On Stage sessions hosted by Naver Music, there are the irregular On Stage Plus sessions for special themes or collaborations. The fourth Naver On Stage Plus Session was published today, April 9th, and the featured artist is Joe Won Sun. Supporting her is a number of well renowned musicians including… Continue reading
During the six and a half years since the release of debut album Masstige, singer-songwriter and jazz vocalist Sunwoo Jung-Ah has not only been performing her own songs, but also contributed to a bunch of soundtracks and produced songs for 2NE1 and GD&TOP. On April 2nd she’s finally ready to release second album It’s Okay,… Continue reading
Towards the end of 2012, Greenplugged launched new café live show series Everything But The Song. The first instance took place on December 28th at Seoul’s Ecobridge Coffee with performances from Papercut Project, Tete and Serengeti‘s Yu Jeong Gyun. 1300k was there to film for Daum Music’s Pop-Up TV and Support a Variety of Music campaign…. Continue reading
On October 5th, boonga Boonga Record launched the 블루스 더. Blues tour. It started with the release of a compilation album with the same name to be followed by the first show of the tour at Ruloorala Stage the same evening, with performances from Kang San-eh and blues men Kim Dae Joong, CR Taegyu and… Continue reading
On June 20th musicians collective friendz.net offered a new video through their YouTUbe channel. This time the video showed J Rabbit covering a couple of Twin Folio songs together with special guest Song Chang Sik. The former Twin Folio member played guitar on “하얀손수건” — the Korean version of Nana Mouskouri‘s “Με τ’ άσπρο μου… Continue reading
Last week musicians collective friendz.net debuted new duo project Creampuff, with Yana and Hcube. Today Creampuff returned with their first cover video, showing them together with fellow friendz.net artist leeSA take on Bill Withers‘ “Just The Two of Us”. Via: friendz.net’s Facebook page
Every Thursday Naver Music presents a Korean indie musicians and bands through its On Stage Session series. In addition to introducing the artist, each ‘episode’ brings a set of high quality live videos and accompanying photos. The format has been created by Studio Lovo, that also share the videos on both Vimeo and YouTube with a slight… Continue reading
After two new J Rabbit videos a couple of days ago, today friendz.net offered yet another video for a song off new J Rabbit album Looking Around: “웃으며 넘길래 (Smile)”. Via: friendz.net on Facebook