Since September 2011 Olleh Music has been running its monthly Indie Awards, awarding the best album, artist and rookie of the month. The finalists are selected from submissions by a special jury and netizens get a chance to vote for their favorites little more than a week. The results for January’s Indie Awards, rewarding November… Continue reading
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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
Nominees for 9th Korean Music Awards Announced
Today the nominees for the 9th Korean Music Awards were announced. Out of all the awards in Korea it’s considered the most prestigious among musicians and a majority of the nominees are indie artists rather than idols. The winners of the awards will be presented on February 29th. Album of the Year nominees: Idiotape –… Continue reading
Apollo 18 to play Taiwan’s BeastieRock Fest next weekend
Although included in the list of summer music festivals Apollo 18 would play this year it wasn’t till today, when they shared the poster on Facebook, that I realized that BeastieRock Fest is an event that takes place outside of Korea – in Tamsui, Taiwan, to be specific. The two day festival takes place next… Continue reading
Apollo 18 interviewed about Fuji Rock for allkpop
As announced late May, Apollo 18 will be playing this year’s Fuji Rock Festival. allkpop found out and posed three questions to Kim Dae-inn: Apollo 18 to perform at Japan’s “Fuji Rock Festival”!
More about Apollo 18’s US tour
During SXSW Mexico based site Bestfestivals took a chance to perform a video interview with Apollo 18: Apollo18 Interview SXSW 2011 A chance to see more of Apollo 18 from the US tour was offered today by allkpop: [Exclusive] Apollo 18’s U.S. Tour: Performances & Pictures More photos from SXSW are available from Smashing Mag:… Continue reading
Apollo 18 after SXSW
The members of Apollo 18 have been back in Korea already for a couple of weeks now, but memories from the band’s first US tour are still fresh. Kamala-Chan followed up her pre-tour interview with the band with another interview: K-RoK Interview: Apollo 18 – SXSW Follow-Up. Chris Park too followed up his pre-SXSW interview… Continue reading
Weekend Reading: Apollo 18
Apollo 18 only have two more shows to play before wrapping up their first US tour and heading back home:– March 26: Tulsa, OK @ The Eclipse– March 27: Fort Worth, TX @ 1919 Hemphill Following some hard work many of their shows got a bit of promotion by local outlets before they got there,… Continue reading
Apollo 18 interviews and giveaways
As you may have noticed there’s a lot about Apollo 18 going on right now. They’ve worked really hard with promotion for the US tour that kicks off March 15, and it appears to have payed off. Yesterday they were featured on the biggest kpop news site in the world: allkpop x Apollo 18 Exclusive!… Continue reading
More Apollo 18 interview from McRoth
The second part in McRoth’s Residence‘s three part interview with Apollo 18, first part mentioned here, was posted today. This part deals with SXSW: McRoth’s Residence Interview with Apollo 18 – Part 2 Update March 11, 12:10am: Part 3 just posted, this time with questions from the fans: McRoth’s Residence Interview with Apollo 18 –… Continue reading