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
Today, February 28th, the winners of the 14th Korean Music Awards were announced. EBS Space 공감 had a livestream for the event and a 2h special of the awards ceremony will be broadcast midnight between March 13-14. Album of the Year: Jo Dong Jin – 나무가 되어 (As A Tree) Song of the Year:… Continue reading
Doing this the last couple years taught me that I’m really bad at making award predictions! Still, I think this is a fun exercise for anyone who pays even cursory attention to the Korean music scene, so I’m glad to be back. Without further ado: Album of the Year Strong field! After an anomalous year… 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
On October 3rd the third season of KBS2 band survival show Top Band kicked off. Much like with Top Band 2 I’ll have a commentary series running to make watching just a little bit more fun. The panel members shared their expectations ahead of the season back in August and now it’s time to have… Continue reading
The various charts from Gaon covering the month of February were published last week. Following up from the status in January, here’s a summary of how the various k-indie related albums and songs fared this time around. Gaon Korean Album Chart Although February offered several interesting releases, only a couple of Korean indie albums sold… Continue reading