Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for May ten days ago. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart Plenty of excellent albums were released during May and many of the indie releases did show up on Gaon’s weekly Korean album chart. However, only… Continue reading
Brazilian filmmaker couple Diana Boccara and Leo Longo have an interesting project going since last year: Around The World In 80 Music Videos. The concept is fairly simple in that they travel around the world and shoot music videos with local artists. Recently the two spent a month in Seoul and recorded 4 music videos,… Continue reading
Getting into the genre categories of the 10th Korean Music Awards, we started off with the Best Rock nominees yesterday. Today we continute with the nominees for Best Modern Rock Album & Song, again recycling a bit of text on the albums and songs already covered already when we went over Album and Song of… Continue reading
The Korean Music Awards of recent years tend to have four main categories, so also in 2013. After having a look at the nominees for Album of the Year and Song of the Year in this year’s Korean Music Awards, we’re ready to move on to an introduction of the artists nominated for Artist of the Year. 404… 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
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
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
We continue to offer comments on Top Band 2 episodes, today covering episode 3 of the show which aired on May 19th. KBS offers VOD to anyone with a KBS account (foreigners may sign up too). Daum does not allow video embeds, but if you follow the links below you’ll get to see the full… Continue reading
With the voting concluded yesterday, who won the May 2012 edition of Olleh Music’s Indie Awards is now clear. Best Album: Annyeongbada – Pink Revolution (56%) Best Artist: Peterpan Complex (40%) Best Rookie: Burntout House (58%) The other nominees fared as follows: Album Nominees: 2. Glen Check – Haute Couture (38%) 3. Lowdown 30 – 1 (4%) 4. Noisecat – Sunday Sunset Airlines (2%) Artist Nominees: 2. Mongoose (36%) 3. Kingston Rudieska (13%) 4. Hanumpa (11%)… Continue reading