The 15th Korean Music Awards are closing in and time has come for me to follow Cessa and Jung in offering my predictions for who the winners will be. This is always a fun exercise to me, especially so this year when I’ve been extra clueless about what goes on outside of my usual rock… Continue reading
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KMA2018: Jung’s Predictions
Watching the Grammys fumble with genre representation year in and year out makes me appreciate the KMAs a little more. (I’m not even mad about this year, but I’m still salty about 1989 over To Pimp a Butterfly two years ago.) Sure, the KMA also has critics and works in a different environment, but representation… Continue reading
KMA2018: Nominees for 15th Korean Music Awards
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
KMA2016: Kevin’s Predictions
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
KMA2016: Nominees for 13th Korean Music Awards
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
Top Band 3: Final
KBS2’s band survival show Top Band 3 launched early October 2015. A total of 11 episodes were broadcast until the winner was crown. Indieful ROK’s Top Band 3 commentary series fell a bit behind, but here is finally what myself and Kevin had to say about episode 11, broadcast December 11. If you want to… Continue reading
Top Band 3: Semi-Final
We’re almost at the end of Indieful ROK’s Top Band 3 commentary series. Today myself and Kevin have a look at episode 10, broadcast December 4. If you want to watch the show yourself all episodes can be streamed from the official site The Top 4 bands meet in the semi-final to battle for a… Continue reading
Top Band 3: Quarter-Final
KBS2’s band survival show Top Band 3 finished a month ago, but here at Indieful ROK we’re still not done with our Top Band 3 commentary series. Last week we found out which 2 more bands would be included in the Top 8 for this season. This week Kevin and myself have watched episodes 8-9,… Continue reading
Top Band 3: Shin Dae Chul’s Group Contest
As KBS2 launched season 3 of band survival show Top Band, Indieful ROK launched the Top Band 3 commentary series. The autumn, however, saw the commentary series falling far behind so now it’s catch-up time. Today myself and Kevin have a look at the 6th episode, broadcast November 7th, focusing on the bands coached by… Continue reading
Top Band 3: Coach Selections
The third season of KBS2 band survival show Top Band started in the beginning of the month. Following the first couple of episodes the Top Band 3 commentary series started here on Indieful ROK with the first real post covering the live audition that took place in the first couple of episodes. Now it’s time… Continue reading