Today, February 28th, the winners of the 14th 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 13-14. Album of the Year: Jo Dong Jin – 나무가 되어 (As A Tree) Song of the Year:… Continue reading
In less than a day the winners of the 14th Korean Music Awards will be announced. Although I usually love this time of the year–dedicating most of February to listening to and blogging about the nominees and the winners–this year I had to prioritize differently. Even so I’m very excited for the awards and have… Continue reading
Doing this the last couple years taught me that I’m really bad at making award predictions! Still, I think this is a fun exercise for anyone who pays even cursory attention to the Korean music scene, so I’m glad to be back. Without further ado: Album of the Year Strong field! After an anomalous year… Continue reading
The nominees for the 14th 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 2015 and November 30th 2016. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of… Continue reading
Melodic death metal/metalcore band Remnants of the Fallen debuted the music video for “God Idolatry” today through international underground metal and hardcore website SMNnews.com. The song was first released on the ‘Redux 2013 Edition’ of Perpetual Immortality, an EP self-released in February 2012 and since January 2013 available world-wide re-mastered by Dan Swanö with a… Continue reading
The finals for Sangsang Madang’s 5th Band Incubating was held today, July 16th. The Top 6 were announced last month and during the finals Nukie, Modsive, Hologram Film, Riot Kidz, The Electric Eels and Remnants of the Fallen all performed three songs each for the judges in hopes of becoming one of the three bands… Continue reading
Episode 7 of KBS ‘Saturday Rock Festival’ Top Band 2 aired on June 16th and we’ve prepared to offer some opinions on each of the performances. KBS offers VOD to anyone with a KBS account if you want to watch the full episode. Daum does not allow video embeds, but if you follow the links below you’ll get to see… Continue reading
Episode 6 of KBS ‘Saturday Rock Festival’ Top Band 2 aired on June 9th and we’ve prepared to offer some opinions on each of the performances. KBS offers VOD to anyone with a KBS account if you want to watch the full episode. Daum does not allow video embeds, but if you follow the links below you’ll get to… Continue reading
In 2007 KT&G SangSang Madang launched its first Band Incubator, introducing new bands to a wider public and providing support. During May bands could apply to the fifth Band Incubator and after the top 15 bands gathered to play at SangSang Madang on June 7th, the top 6 has now been announced: Hologram Film, Mods… Continue reading
In 2007 KT&G SangSang Madang launched its first Band Incubator, introducing new bands to a wider public and providing support. During May bands could apply to the fifth Band Incubator and after further qualification, the top 6 has now been announced. The final will be held on July 16th. Hologram Film Hologram Film… Continue reading