Today, February 29th, the winners of the 13th Korean Music Awards were announced. EBS Space 공감 had a livestream for the event and a 2h special of the awards ceremony will be broadcast midnight between March 7-8. Album of the Year: E SENS – The Anectode Song of the Year: BIGBANG – “Bae Bae”… Continue reading
After a month of KMA focus here on Indieful ROK, it’s finally become time for my to share my own predictions. Lots of great albums and songs nominated this year, but then 2015 was also a really strong year for Korean music in general. Album of the Year Although my own Album of the Year… Continue reading
The nominees for the 13th Korean Music Awards were announced at the end of January. After going over the nominees for Album of the Year and Song of the Year in the weeks prior, this week it’s time to follow up with the nominees for Song Artist of the Year.
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It’s KMA season again! I haven’t prepared myself very well this year, but I’m going to try my hand at this guessing thing regardless. The selection committee had a few surprise nominations up their sleeve as always (at least, they were surprising to me), but a couple of those were some of my own favorites… Continue reading
The nominees for the 13th Korean Music Awards were announced last week. The weeks leading up to the actual awards show I’ll be introducing the nominees from the “total” categories, starting with Album of the Year. Black Medicine – Irreversible With roots in some of Korea’s first generation death metal bands, Black Medicine formed in… Continue reading
The nominees for the 13th 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 2014 and November 30th 2015. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of… 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
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
It’s been a year since Olleh Music launched their Indie Awards, the September edition being the 8th set of awards handed out. The netizen vote concluded yesterday, Sunday September 10th, and with that the results are now available. Best Album: Verbal Jint – 10년동안의오독 (80%) Best Artist: Pia (42%) Best Rookie: CoreMagaZinE (39%) Album Nominees: 2. Lucite Tokki – Grow to… Continue reading
After something of a summer hiatus, Olleh Music’s Indie Awards have been resumed with the nominees for the eighth edition of the awards, to be handed out in September, revealed today: September Indie Award Album Nominees: – Verbal Jint (10년동안의오독) – Lucite Tokki (Grow to Glow) – Method (The Constant) – Neon Bunny (Happy Ending) September Indie Award Artist Nominees: – Gate Flowers – Idiotape… Continue reading