After a month of KMA focus here on Indieful ROK, it’s finally become time for my to share my own predictions. Lots of great albums and songs nominated this year, but then 2015 was also a really strong year for Korean music in general. Album of the Year Although my own Album of the Year… Continue reading
Album of the Year Personal Pick: I’m so glad to have discovered Kim Sawol. Her music is absolutely beautiful. I can’t express enough how much I love this album, but just take my word for it – you should check it out. Prediction: Considering the circumstances regarding E SENS – his drug abuse and time… Continue reading
It’s been a month since the year of 2015 came to an end, so it’s well about time to summarize the year. In what has been a trend of recent years, I didn’t listen to as much music as I should have–something I’m working to change in 2016. Even so, I must say 2015 was… Continue reading
The nominees for the 13th 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 2014 and November 30th 2015. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of… Continue reading
As has become common in recent years, also the 2015 edition of SXSW Music will be featuring a set of Korean bands. The first round of artist announcements came on October 22nd and includes The Barbarettes, Big Phony, Eastern Sidekick, EE, No Brain and su:m. Additionally it was reported after MU:CON that Asian Chairshot too… Continue reading
It’s been a while since I last go to writing one of these randomness posts. I had a special topic in mind, but great tragedy struck in the world of K-pop and I couldn’t find a way to write around it. Since then I’ve spent a couple of weeks in Korea with some of my… Continue reading
This year’s edition of the Greenplugged Festival will take place between May 17th-18th. The third line-up announcement was made on April 12th, and the same day the first three songs from this year’s Greenplugged Ombinbus Album Sum∞ debuted online. This is the third year that Greenplugged put out their own compilation, and just like previous… Continue reading