It’s been a month since the year of 2015 came to an end, so it’s well about time to summarize the year. In what has been a trend of recent years, I didn’t listen to as much music as I should have–something I’m working to change in 2016. Even so, I must say 2015 was… Continue reading
Already the same day as the nominees for the Korean Music Awards are announced, so is the winner of Korean Music Awards‘ special Achievement Award. For the 13th Korean Music Awards the price and honor goes to Kim Hee Gab. Kim Hee Gab is perhaps best known as the songwriter behind numerous Korean hits in… Continue reading
The nominees for the 13th annual Korean Music Awards were announced today at 11am, KST. The nominated albums and songs have been selected from albums and songs released between December 1st 2014 and November 30th 2015. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of… Continue reading
KBS2’s band survival show Top Band 3 launched early October 2015. A total of 11 episodes were broadcast until the winner was crown. Indieful ROK’s Top Band 3 commentary series fell a bit behind, but here is finally what myself and Kevin had to say about episode 11, broadcast December 11. If you want to… Continue reading
The Hague based producer Sima Kim will perform at a Fluister arranged event this Thursday, January 28, together with English electronic artist Mark van Hoen. Date: January 28, 2016 Cost: €7.50 Location: Zaal 3 Event link
We’re almost at the end of Indieful ROK’s Top Band 3 commentary series. Today myself and Kevin have a look at episode 10, broadcast December 4. If you want to watch the show yourself all episodes can be streamed from the official site The Top 4 bands meet in the semi-final to battle for a… Continue reading
End of August 2015 I came home from the best music festival I’ve ever attended: Modern Sky Festival Helsinki. For the past decade I’d been suspecting that I’m too old to really enjoy a music festival anymore. My previous proper attempt was Grand Mint Festival in 2009 and since then I’d pretty much just gone… Continue reading
Beginning of October 2015 I happened to be on vacation in Korea. I had already been there for a couple of weeks of vacation, meeting friends and going to various shows, without being able to make up my mind about whether or not I should go to Zandari Festa the last weekend before going back… Continue reading
KBS2’s band survival show Top Band 3 finished a month ago, but here at Indieful ROK we’re still not done with our Top Band 3 commentary series. Last week we found out which 2 more bands would be included in the Top 8 for this season. This week Kevin and myself have watched episodes 8-9,… Continue reading
A new year is upon us and new music with that. The music bloggers of the Music Alliance Pact return also in 2016, on the 15th of every month, ready to bring you some of the best music the world has to offer. From Korea, this year starts with a song off one of the… Continue reading