After a 4 month hiatus, summarized in Gaon’s 2015 half-year charts, I figured it was time to start having a look at the various k-indie albums and songs that placed themselves on any of Gaon’s music charts during the month of July. Clearly it was the month for hyukoh following appearances on popular variety show… Continue reading
Singer-songwriter Taru will release her third full-length album on April 18th. In the past we’ve heard her do sweet indie pop songs as the vocalist of The Melody and her first few releases on Pastel Music was all Sentimental Scenery produced electronic pop. Her second album was more ballad oriented and after joining Old Records… Continue reading
Korean owned chained Smoothie King launched the Orange Revolution Festival in August to showcase the talent of Korean indie bands through a series of concerts and busking events, where the audience was encourage to dress in orange. Five concerts were held as part of the initiative from mid-August through mid-September and corresponding digital singles with… Continue reading
Pastel Music continues to celebrate its 10th Anniversary with digital singles where Pastel artists cover other Pastel artists. Volume 5 in this series will be released on September 24th and it has something of a Jaejoo Boys theme. The first track has former Jaejoo Boys’ member Sabo covering “선택”, from Afternoon–once the other half of Jaejoo… Continue reading
Yesterday we only made it halfway through the I Am A Singer 2 September auditions, so today we continue with the second group. In addition to myself Dahee of Dahee’s Plastic Castle and Fabien of Kimchi Popcorn have contributed their opinions to this post. All performances can be streamed from the official site. Singer Introductions So Chan Whee Anna: So Chan Whee… Continue reading
Shibuya-based label Octave Soul has been working hard to bring out more Korean indie music releases in Japan. Most are re-releases, but every now and then there is also the special release for the Japanese market. On May 16th comes the next special project, K-Pop Punk Covers, with Tokyo’s Maximum Outputs Level having taken on… Continue reading
SBS Plus Monday-Tuesday drama I Love You (그대를 사랑합니다) has been airing since April 16th. With four out of sixteen episodes broadcast so far part 1 of the soundtrack was released on April 27th. One of the songs on the soundtrack is called “Wake Me Up” and is sung by Taru, who has also written… Continue reading
In April last year Taru released the song “Mr. Destiny” on digital single Time Travel Project. Since then she’s changed labels, but even so a music video for “Mr. Destiny” turned up last week. In the video an unidentified actress poses as Taru. Source: maniadb
The Gaon charts covering last week are out and for the Korean digital chart we again find Big Bang holding up the top spots. Looking to the indie related entries we find three songs out and three new songs in, but also 10cm‘s “안아줘요” climbing back into the top 200 at a rate earning it… Continue reading
The latest Korean digital chart from Gaon sees the top dominated by Big Bang‘s latest mini album, but we have have few new entries coming from the indie scene as well. 32. 10cm – “애상” (-7) 67. Noblesse & Acoustic Collabo – “Love Diary” (new) 69. Two Months – “The Romantic” (-18) 74. Standing Eggs… Continue reading