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
Seoul-based showcase festival Zandari Festa consistently attracts both great Korean and international acts as well as other attendees, making it easy to catch up with old and new friends alike. As such, for the past couple of years has been one of the highlights of my annual Korea trips. So also this year. Zandari Thursday,… 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
End of November the Asia-Pacific Journal published a peer-reviewed article by Victoria University of Wellington professor Stephen Epstein on Korean indie music: Us and Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World. More specifically, it complements the 2014 documentary of the same name co-produced by Stephen Epstein and Timothy Tangherlini. The article does a great… Continue reading
With less than two months to go before the Music part of SXSW 2013 kicks off in Austin, the SX Schedule is out though actual dates and venues are yet to come. As noted previously 3rd Line Butterfly, Galaxy Express, Goonam, Lowdown 30 and No Brain are all ready for the festival. Now Windy City… Continue reading
Today SXSW made the third announcement with bands scheduled to play SXSW 2013. New on the list were 3rd Line Butterfly, that played the festival already last year as one of the Seoulsonic 2012 bands, and the three bands that will be touring North America as part of Seoulsonic 2013: Goonam (previously Goonamguayeoridingstella), Lowdown 30… Continue reading
It’s been more than eight years since 3rd Line Butterfly last put out a full-length album, but on September 20th time will have come for the release of 3rd Line Butterfly’s fourth album Dreamtalk. Alongside many new titles on the release there is also “Hello” and “J Says”, previously recorded for the band’s special English… Continue reading
The 2K12 Seoulsonic North America tour launched in San Francisco today. One of the bands on the tour is 3rd Line Butterfly and to market themselves a bit extra, they’ll be releasing a special English language album on March 15th, Ice Cube. With twelve tracks in total, eight are songs previously included on the band’s… Continue reading
The 2K12 Seoulsonic North America tour with Korean indie legend 3rd Line Butterfly and Crying Nut together with awesome fresh rock band Yellow Monsters is kicking off tomorrow in San Francisco. Unfortunately there’ll be no Yellow Monsters at the SF show because of health reasons, but there’s no need to be too disappointed as that… Continue reading