Today, February 29th, the winners of the 13th 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 7-8. Album of the Year: E SENS – The Anectode Song of the Year: BIGBANG – “Bae Bae”… Continue reading
Thanks again to Anna for inviting me to be part of the prediction posts this year yet again! I failed miserably to keep up with Korean music in 2015, but I’m still going to go ahead and hope that I get at least a few right this time. So here are my predictions, along with… Continue reading
It’s KMA season again! I haven’t prepared myself very well this year, but I’m going to try my hand at this guessing thing regardless. The selection committee had a few surprise nominations up their sleeve as always (at least, they were surprising to me), but a couple of those were some of my own favorites… Continue reading
The nominees for the 13th 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 2014 and November 30th 2015. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of… Continue reading
Honoring Indieful ROK’s original intent of being a manual aggregator of sorts, I’ve had a look at what some Korean music blogs around have listed as the best releases of 2015 and made a summary. The blogs in question are Weiv, IZM, Music Y, and DiffSound. And to get some more input I also weighed… Continue reading
Zitten has had two of his songs covered on the first couple of digital singles celebrating Pastel Music’s 10th anniversary. As volume 3 of Ten Years After is released on July 2nd, time has come for Zitten to instead cover Casker‘s “향 (Scent)”. Participating on the same digital single is Sogyumo Acacia Band that have… Continue reading
Trampauline‘s second full-length album This Is Why We Are Falling For Each Other got a Japanese release today, June 20th. Not only equipped with a new cover, the Japanese edition also comes with three bonus tracks. One of the bonus tracks is a song called “1995” and the other two are remixes familiar from the… Continue reading
In November 2010 Pastel Music launched a series of concerts under the name Green Concert which has continued since. A compilation called SAVe tHE AiR: Green Concert was released in January last year and on February 9th time has come for SAVe tHE AiR: Green Concert Vol.2. Like the first time a number of Pastel… Continue reading
Courtesy of music webzine 100BEAT, Daum’s Music Bar has presented a summary of 2011 listing some of the best singles and albums the year had to offer. The lists have been posted part by part throughout January, with the TOP 10 albums revealed this week: 1. Chang Kiha & The Faces – 장기하와 얼굴들 2…. Continue reading
Today the nominees for the 9th Korean Music Awards were announced. Out of all the awards in Korea it’s considered the most prestigious among musicians and a majority of the nominees are indie artists rather than idols. The winners of the awards will be presented on February 29th. Album of the Year nominees: Idiotape –… Continue reading