I frequently find myself looking up former contestants of Hello Rookie when writing small info snippets for various posts. Since the competition started in 2007 a large number of great bands and solo artists has gotten a share of the spotlight, and it’s particularly fun to see how the now more famous acts have evolved…. Continue reading
This August Hungarian club Dürer Kert will invite to a Korean Rock Wave Night with 3 bands coming over for the event: GBSG, Messgram and Naty. Hungarian band InCorrect will also play the event as special guests.
It’s not just Hello Rookie that highlights the many talented but unknown bands that Korea has to offer. In addition to the announcement for the Hello Rookies of August, last week also offered lists of the finalists from 3 other music competitions. 2014 K-Rookies Let’s start with K-Rookies. This is a competition created by… Continue reading
Once again we’re at the 15th of the month and as usual that means a brand new edition of the Music Alliance Pact, where music bloggers from all over the world come forth to recommend one song from their region of special interest. From South Korea this month the selected band is Messgram, that has… Continue reading
The Hello Rookie auditions of this year have been going on for a few months now. As the auditions are preparations for participation on the monthly Hello Rookie episodes of EBS Space 공감, the winners are selected a month in advance meaning that already now in July we find out which bands have been named… Continue reading
Remember how last week I was making excuses about not blogging because my husband and I had started to look for an apartment? It’ll likely be many years before I can use that excuse again as we bought our first apartment (we’ve been renting until now) a few days ago. It was very sudden–a week… Continue reading