Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for April last Thursday. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart While March was a good month for album sales, April didn’t deliver to the same extent. On the indie front, Busker Busker‘s 2012 album continued to… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for March a week ago. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart March appears to have been an overall very good month for album sales in Korea. Tearliner‘s soundtrack for tvN drama Cheese In The Trap (치즈… Continue reading
With the voting concluded yesterday, who won the May 2012 edition of Olleh Music’s Indie Awards is now clear. Best Album: Annyeongbada – Pink Revolution (56%) Best Artist: Peterpan Complex (40%) Best Rookie: Burntout House (58%) The other nominees fared as follows: Album Nominees: 2. Glen Check – Haute Couture (38%) 3. Lowdown 30 – 1 (4%) 4. Noisecat – Sunday Sunset Airlines (2%) Artist Nominees: 2. Mongoose (36%) 3. Kingston Rudieska (13%) 4. Hanumpa (11%)… Continue reading
There were no Indie Awards handed out from Olleh Music in April, but there will be in May. The nominees have been revealed and voting will go on from May 1st to May 14th. May Indie Award Album Nominees: – Glen Check (Haute Couture) – Noisecat (Sunday Sunset Airlines) – Lowdown 30 (1) – Annyeongbada (Pink Revolution) May Indie… Continue reading
As illustrated by the latest Indie Go Chart from Daum, Annyeongbada‘s “야광별 (Luminous Star)” is the second most popular track from the band’s recently released second album. With a music video already produced for album main track “악마 (Devil)”, label Fluxus Music recognized the potential of “Luminous Star” and has put together live performance clips… Continue reading
The Gaon charts covering last week are out and for the Korean digital chart we again find Big Bang holding up the top spots. Looking to the indie related entries we find three songs out and three new songs in, but also 10cm‘s “안아줘요” climbing back into the top 200 at a rate earning it… Continue reading
The latest Korean digital chart from Gaon sees the top dominated by Big Bang‘s latest mini album, but we have have few new entries coming from the indie scene as well. 32. 10cm – “애상” (-7) 67. Noblesse & Acoustic Collabo – “Love Diary” (new) 69. Two Months – “The Romantic” (-18) 74. Standing Eggs… Continue reading
With the band formerly known as Bye Bye Sea releasing their second full-length album today, following the music video teaser from last week the full music video for main track “악마 (Devil)” has now seen the light of the day. As we had suspected the band has now officially changed names to Annyeongbada. The album… Continue reading
Bye Bye Sea are set to return with their second full-length album on February 27th and it looks as though they’ve gone back to using their pre-Fluxus international name Annyeongbada. The title of the album is Pink Revolution and with twelve tracks total it includes their cover of Kim Kwang Seok‘s “변해가네” from last year’s… Continue reading
Indie rock band Black Bag released first EP Beyond The Sky on January 11th. Having been around since 2009, they debuted the song “Beautiful Morning” on the 2011 Jisan Rock Festival Compilation last summer, now also included on the EP. The four members of the band are introduced in the EP teaser: