The monthly Hello Rookie competitions are over for this year. As I haven’t gotten around to covering Hello Rookie month by month, here’s a summary for future reference. Part of the price when winning one of the monthly competitions is to perform on EBS Space 공감. Although the August episode was broadcast on August 20th,… Continue reading
I’ve been following Neon Bunny‘s career with great interest since the very start. Yet I haven’t seen her perform live a single time. That’s about to change in a week and a half as she’s set to perform at Modern Sky Helsinki on August 29th. With more than four years passed since our first interview… Continue reading
K-Rookies is a competition created by KOCCA–-the Korean state sponsored Korea Creative Culture Agency. The 2015 edition was the 4th in the order, granting 6 bands promotional support for the rest of the year. The final auditions took place at the Olympic Park Muse Live café on July 31st with 12 bands competing for the… Continue reading
The Music Alliance Pact has returned with another selection of fine music from all over the world. This month sees Floating Island represent South Korea with “Parade”, from the single with the same name released on August 10th. This song is just too catchy and has been what’s playing in my head for the majority… Continue reading
For the first time ever, Chinese indie music festival Modern Sky is set to take place in Helsinki, Finland. Plenty of great artists from the Nordic countries as well as China and other parts of East Asia are scheduled to play at the Hietalahti shipyard from August 28-29. Coming over from Korea, Sunwoo Jung-A and… Continue reading
Suddenly the kind of summer most people appreciate has returned to Sweden. I’m more into rain and cool weather myself as I get rendered fairly useless even at temperatures in the lower 20s, but there’s all of this awesome music that deserves some attention so I’ll anyway have to at least try to get some… Continue reading
After a 4 month hiatus, summarized in Gaon’s 2015 half-year charts, I figured it was time to start having a look at the various k-indie albums and songs that placed themselves on any of Gaon’s music charts during the month of July. Clearly it was the month for hyukoh following appearances on popular variety show… Continue reading
A few weeks ago Busan based band Say Sue Me released the EP Big Summer Night. With its surf rock sound the record is a perfect fit for the season. It’s a great release all the way through, the instrumental opening and closing tracks doing a great job welcoming and eventually sending off the listener…. Continue reading
Time goes by so quickly. This is nothing new, of course, but I think it holds more true during summer. And I thought having a family with a young kid staying with me and my husband for a month would feel like a long time, yet now it seems they left too soon. The 4… Continue reading
This year Saint-Denis, on the French Réunion Island north of Madagaskar, offers the Kaloo Bang Festival 2015 during the last weekend of September. Jambinai will be there to perform on the Friday that the festival opens.
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