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
It’s only a few weeks left till this year’s Grand Mint Festival kicks off and as usual the festival has a focus on the environment through the eARTh campaign. This year’s campaign song was released as a digital single on September 27th, with Joa Band‘s GMF2010 song “북극곰아” updated through a remix by apls‘ DJ Lozik…. Continue reading
In January Joa Band and Dalmoon headed to Zambia for two weeks while getting filmed for an EBS documentary. Turns out the documentary is part of EBS’s “global project” 나눔, scheduled for broadcast on February 27th at 10:40pm. Sources: Junho’s Twitter; MagicStrawBerry Sound’s Twitter
This week Violet Sweets shared the news that there will be a Joa Band documentary, What Do You Do? (좋아서 만든 영화), released on December 17: [Joa Band] goes Cinema. Another indie band with its own movie is Sogyumo Acacia Band. Min Hwan-ki’s documentary Sogyumo Acacia Band’s Story (소규모아카시아밴드 이야기) was first screened in May… Continue reading