The 2014 edition of Culture Collide in San Francisco takes place October 14-15. This year no less than 4 Korean bands will take on the stage: Love X Stereo, Big Phony, From The Airport and Rock’N’Roll Radio.
Continue readingSXSW 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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The nominees for the 11th annual Korean Music Awards were announced today at 11am, KST. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of music critics and industry experts, making it a Korean version of the Grammy’s. This year the ceremony will take place on February… Continue reading
A new episode of Mnet’s fantastic MUST Era Of The Band will be broadcast tomorrow, but first here’s what our panel has to say on the episode from June 18th. This week I’m joined by Youngmi of Dream, Girl, Sangha of strangeseasons and Dahee of Dahee’s Plastic Castle. Watch the episode yourself through Mnet’s free VOD service. This week we get… Continue reading
This year’s edition of the Greenplugged Festival will take place between May 17th-18th. The third line-up announcement was made on April 12th, and the same day the first three songs from this year’s Greenplugged Ombinbus Album Sum∞ debuted online. This is the third year that Greenplugged put out their own compilation, and just like previous… Continue reading
After first being narrowed down from 40 to 20, the acts that get to play this year’s Ssamzie Sound Festival as hidden masters were announced today. The lucky five are rock band ECE, singer-songwriter Hyangni, electro rock bands Litter and WHOwho and go-go beat makers Rock’N’Roll Radio. This year’s edition of Ssamzie Sound Festival is the 14th and… Continue reading
Until yesterday netizens were able to vote for their favorites among the 39 bands competing to become one of five Hidden Masters for this year’s Ssamzie Sound Festival. The 20 bands that made it to the second round were announced today, listed below after how they were presented in Korean Indie’s SSF Auditions weekend special:… Continue reading
After starting with a few acoustic acts we continue to look at some of the more indie pop and indie rock oriented bands auditioning to be one of Ssamzie Sound Festival’s Hidden Masters. With a dal music account you can vote for your favorites until Wednesday, September 12th Toll Modern rock band Toll formed… Continue reading
The Ssamzie Sound Festival is running on its 14th year and as usual lesser known bands get a chance to audition for a spot at the festival. In August all of the bands that made the top 40 were invited to perform four songs each in a theatre, two of which would be considered entries… Continue reading
More Top Band 2 coming up as we are now ready to offer our opinions on episode 4 of the show, aired on May 26th. 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… Continue reading