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
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Beatball’s Record Fair Vinyls Available Again
In time for the Seoul Record & CD Fair in June Beatball Records made sure to press a couple of limited edition vinyls, for Lim Ji Hoon‘s Organ Orgasm and a special acoustic EP 이사/화창한 날에 from The Freaks. After the fair rumors had it Beatball would soon make the remaining copies available in record stores, but now it seems the label… Continue reading
Kirin Releases Remix Album
’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
Beatball Releases Vinyls for Record Fair
This weekend, June 2nd through 3rd, the 2nd Record & CD Fair in Seoul will take place at Ax-Korea. There will be a number of performances, and being a record fair plenty of labels will be taking part in the exhibition. Some have printed special releases for the event, and among them are Beatball Records… Continue reading
March Performances from Naver’s On Stage
March has come to an end. Having brought no less than five Thursdays that means five of Naver’s On Stage sessions were published, complete with high quality studio live videos and band photos. The month started with hardcore band Ninesin and followed up with a number of solo artists. There was former Wonder Bird member… Continue reading
Hyang Music’s Album Sales Chart, Third Week of January 2012
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
Yukari Films Video in Korea, Brings Lim Ji Hoon to Japan
Onishi Yukari visited Korea in January and while there got enough video material for a music video to a song in Korean, “한류부인”. Usually singing 60’s inspired pop numbers the Osaka based songstress will perform on the second Korean Wave Festival on February 29th, backed by a set of Korean musicians including Lim Ji Hoon…. Continue reading
Hyang Music’s Album Sales Chart, Second Week of January 2012
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
Hyang Music’s Album Sales Chart, First Week of January 2012
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
Lim Ji-Hoon Releases Organ Covers
Funkafric Booster organist Boostdah, now going by his real name Lim Ji-Hoon, released his first solo album on CD on December 23rd and followed up with a digital release on January 3rd. Staying true to his instrument throughout he used it to record a number of groovy tracks and called the album Organ Orgasm. In… Continue reading