The winners of the 15th Korean Music Awards will be announced at a ceremony next week. In preparation, I’ve been looking into the nominees for the main categories starting with Album and Song of the Year respectively. Today it’s time to learn more about the nominees for Artist of the Year. Kim Mokin Kim Mokin… Continue reading
The nominees for the 15th Korean Music Awards were announced last week. Here’s an introduction to all albums nominated for Album of the Year. Kang Taegu – bleu Folk musician Kang Taegu has been active since 2011 and put out his first release–a split album with Arles–in 2013. Although Kang Taegu’s name remained unknown to… Continue reading
The nominees for the 15th 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 2016 and November 30th 2017. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of… Continue reading
For the past few years my favorite label has been Electric Muse. Since its inception the Seoul based imprint has brought forth some of the most delightful music Korea has to offer, growing stronger every year. As Electric Muse is celebrating its 10th anniversary, I reached out to founder Kim Mingyu with a few questions… Continue reading
The first instance of the annual Seoul Record Fair took place at Platoon Kunsthalle in November 2011. The event has been expanding with every year since at the same location and this year it is set to take place as a 2 day affair between June 28-29. Last year’s record fair saw success with vinyl… Continue reading
Singer-songwriter Dringe Augh has been preparing for his second full-length album for a long time, and on April 4th it’ll finally be released–two years after the release of his first official album. The title is Drooled and Slobbered and just like his previous releases lyrics are all in English. Ranging from just Dringe Augh playing… Continue reading
Several labels are having big anniversaries this year and celebrating accordingly. Pastel Music is celebrating 10 years with covers on digital singles, Beatball Records will be celebrating 10 years with a concert in a couple of weeks, and Electric Muse is celebrating 5 years with a compilation released on June 7th. The title is 5th… Continue reading
It appears there were not many changes in album sales at Hyang Music between the first and second weeks of January. The top looks pretty much the same, with Siwa just falling out of the top 10 in favor of French act M83. 1. Lucid Fall – 아름다운 날들 (-) 2. Idiotape – 11111101 (+1) 3…. Continue reading
Since the last few years digital sales may be more important than sales of CDs in Korea, but that does not mean the CD has completely played out its role as a carrier of music. In some segments of Korea’s indie scene it’s still more common to release a CD than set up a digital… Continue reading
Cabinet Singalongs guitarist and singer/songwriter Kim Mokin became the 76th indie2go artist with the indie2go video for his “꿈의 가로수길” released last week. Now the live recording can also be found on SoundCloud and those that wish can download it from Dropbox, getting the tabs for the song in the same package. Kim… Continue reading