The 7th annual Seoul Record Fair will take place during the weekend of June 17-18 at Seoul Innovation Park. Just like last year the event offers sales of limited edition vinyl pressed especially for the event as well as a set of strictly limited edition cassette tapes. Vinyl The vinyl trend has definitely grabbed a… Continue reading
The nominees for the 14th 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 2015 and November 30th 2016. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of… Continue reading
So, Christmas is coming up again and just like in previous years I failed to get any sort of advent calendar style countdown going. Not that I’m really the Christmas-y type. It’s just that I’ve had this idea that I think would appeal both to those that are and those that don’t care at all… Continue reading
’21st century multi-artist’ Kirin is back with the remix album he announced in Korean Indie’s mini-interview earlier this year. Continuing with his 90’s hip-hop and dance revival the album is called 인기가yo! 메가믹스 (read as inkiga-yo! megamix). With 15 tracks total many are remixes of songs from Kirin’s first full-length album while others are brand new. “히위고 나우” comes… Continue reading
The Hyang Music Album Chart for the fourth week of January, published earlier this week, offered the return of two old releases. 1. Monkeyz – First Cry (new) 2. Lucid Fall – 아름다운 날들 (-1) 3. Idiotape – 11111101 (-) 4. Lamb of God – Resolution (new) 5. Apollo 18 – The Black Album (-3)… Continue reading
The Hyang Music Album Chart for the third week of January was published yesterday. While no newcomers made it to the very top there were four indie related releases entering the chart below the top 10. Speaking of which, the changes to the top 10 were fairly modest, with Kim Mokin dropping one position down… Continue reading
Following a set of digital singles released towards the end of 2011 hip hop artist Kirin released his first full-length album, 그대여 이제, digitally on December 21st. As hinted by the cover he’s got something of a 80’s/90’s retro sound going, enhanced by the visual style of the many music videos that go with the… Continue reading