Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for March a week ago. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart March appears to have been an overall very good month for album sales in Korea. Tearliner‘s soundtrack for tvN drama Cheese In The Trap (치즈… 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
As I wrote a month ago, this year I’m back to keeping track of what happens on the various Gaon music charts with k-indie related releases. As the week-to-week changes are fairly repetitive I’ve taken to tweeting anything interesting on the weekly charts when I find something worth mentioning. Gaon generally updates with monthly charts… Continue reading
It’s been five months since we concluded our last commentary series, but with Mnet announced a new band survival show I saw a new chance to get invested in a Korean TV. Participants from previous panels here on the site were invited to once again share their opinion publicly and for the first episode of… Continue reading
With the Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100 for the week of July 7, Busker Busker have again claimed the top spot, this time with the lead track from their new mini album. The rest of the songs also entered the chart — this while songs from their first album, released three months ago, still linger… Continue reading
On June 20th musicians collective friendz.net offered a new video through their YouTUbe channel. This time the video showed J Rabbit covering a couple of Twin Folio songs together with special guest Song Chang Sik. The former Twin Folio member played guitar on “하얀손수건” — the Korean version of Nana Mouskouri‘s “Με τ’ άσπρο μου… Continue reading
Kim Jin Pyo is currently preparing to release his sixth full-length album — his first in four years. Announcing the comeback digital single “아저씨” is released on June 20th and bringing the song a sweet touch are J Rabbit. J Rabbit open the track as was it one of their usual songs before it turns… Continue reading
Musicians collective friendz.net has a new name under its roaster as Yana and Hcube have teamed up for new project Creampuff. Yana played the saxophone whereas Hcube took care of the producer duties when they created the 80’s-90’s retro flavored dance track “You Are My Friend”, featuring the vocals of J Rabbit. The song was… Continue reading
After two new J Rabbit videos a couple of days ago, today friendz.net offered yet another video for a song off new J Rabbit album Looking Around: “웃으며 넘길래 (Smile)”. Via: friendz.net on Facebook
After releasing second full-length album Looking Around a couple of weeks ago, female duo J Rabbit had the first videos for songs from the album unveiled today. Starting with a video for album lead track “알고있을까 (to. my Love)” a video for “Happy Things” soon followed. Via: friendz.net on Facebook