Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the overall charts for 2016 back in January. Gaon provided another look back at 2016 last week, February 22nd, as the winners of the 6th annual Gaon Chart Music Awards were announced. Gaon Korean Album Chart Much like in 2015 the Korean boy bands had a good year in… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for February today. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart January proved to be a relatively good month for Korean indie albums sales, but the same unfortunately can’t be said of the Korean album chart for February… Continue reading
Here comes the last piece of catching up on what’s been going on with Korean indie music on Korea’s national music charts from Gaon. Following October, just a day before the December charts are published, here comes November. Gaon Korean Album Chart The Korean album chart for November was unusually sparse in terms of indie… Continue reading
2015 has come to an end. It was a kind of strange year for me, something that at times has been very obvious from the music I’ve been listening to rather obsessively. I’ll dedicate a post to what I thought was the best of 2015 in a few days when some stuff I’ve contributed elsewhere… Continue reading
Today, February 28th, the winners of the 10th Korean Music Awards were announced: Album of the Year: 3rd Line Butterfly – Dreamtalk Song of the Year: Psy – “Gangnam Style” Artist of the Year: Psy Rookie of the Year: 404 Best Rock Album: Jeong Cha Sik – 격동하는 현재사 Best Rock Song: Jeong Cha Sik… Continue reading
So last week we began to have a look at all the nominees for this year’s Korean Music Awards – the Album, Song, Artist and Rookie of the Year – which means this week we’ll get onto the genre nominations. Recycling a bit of text on the albums and songs already covered in this series,… Continue reading
After having a look at the nominees for Album of the Year and Song of the Year in this year’s Korean Music Awards, we’re ready to move on to an introduction of the artists nominated for Artist of the Year. 3rd Line Butterfly 3rd Line Butterfly formed in 1999 and while the members have changed over… Continue reading
The nominees for this year’s Korean Music Awards, the 10th so far, were announced last week. A day later we launched our own predictions poll, where you can pick who you think will win each category for a chance to get a price of your own. But what are the alternatives, really? That’s what will… 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
With the year of 2012 turning into 2013 a few weeks ago, there are now plenty of lists covering the best of what 2012 had to offer – so also when it comes to Korean indie music. Chris has already offered a list of his favorites on the site and our contributor has Sangha shared… Continue reading