Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for April last Thursday. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart While March was a good month for album sales, April didn’t deliver to the same extent. On the indie front, Busker Busker‘s 2012 album continued to… Continue reading
As part of the K-Music Festival running in London throughout September, No Brain will spend a Friday evening at Scala playing after a yet-to-be-announced supporting band.
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As has become common in recent years, also the 2015 edition of SXSW Music will be featuring a set of Korean bands. The first round of artist announcements came on October 22nd and includes The Barbarettes, Big Phony, Eastern Sidekick, EE, No Brain and su:m. Additionally it was reported after MU:CON that Asian Chairshot too… Continue reading
The first instance of the annual Seoul Record Fair took place at Platoon Kunsthalle in November 2011. The event has been expanding with every year since at the same location and this year it is set to take place as a 2 day affair between June 28-29. Last year’s record fair saw success with vinyl… Continue reading
SXSW 2014 will see a record number of Korean artists performing, among them Big Phony, Crying Nut, Glen Check, Hollow Jan, Idiotape, Jambinai, Kiha & The Faces, Love X Stereo, Nell, No Brain, Rock’N’Roll Radio.
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We’re getting close to the end, but have a few more episodes to go of the special summer band survival format of Yoon Do Hyun’s MUST. As our commentary series continues, this week Youngmi of Dream, Girl, Lightinthemind of Korean Rock is Real and Dahee of Dahee’s Plastic Castle joins me on the panel for the episode that aired… Continue reading
A second commentary post this week as we’re catching up on Mnet’s band survival show MUST Era Of The Band. The third episode aired on June 4th. Lightinthemind of Korean Rock is Real, Dahee of Dahee’s Plastic Castle, Xtian aka drowningn00b and Youngmi of Dream, Girl all pitched in this time. Watch the episode yourself through Mnet’s VOD service. The third episode of the special summer band survival… 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
Today SXSW made the third announcement with bands scheduled to play SXSW 2013. New on the list were 3rd Line Butterfly, that played the festival already last year as one of the Seoulsonic 2012 bands, and the three bands that will be touring North America as part of Seoulsonic 2013: Goonam (previously Goonamguayeoridingstella), Lowdown 30… Continue reading
Rock band Pia made their first appearance on Immortal Song 2 during the Lee Seung Hwan special, broadcast on September 1st. With a couple of camel statues on stage, Pia made Lee Seung Hwan’s “붉은 낙타” into their own also inviting No Brain‘s Lee Sung Woo to sing on stage. Prior to their performance vocalist Yohan had… Continue reading