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
The nominees for the 15th Korean Music Awards were announced last week. Here’s an introduction to all albums nominated for Album of the Year. Kang Taegu – bleu Folk musician Kang Taegu has been active since 2011 and put out his first release–a split album with Arles–in 2013. Although Kang Taegu’s name remained unknown to… Continue reading
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
The Korean music year of 2017 was off to an excellent start with the release of 3rd Line Butterfly’s fifth full-length album Divided By Zero already on January 6th. As the year progressed I found my attention gravitating more towards singles and EPs than full-length releases, but the last couple of months of 2017 illustrated… Continue reading