It’s not just Hello Rookie that highlights the many talented but unknown bands that Korea has to offer. In addition to the announcement for the Hello Rookies of August, last week also offered lists of the finalists from 3 other music competitions. 2014 K-Rookies Let’s start with K-Rookies. This is a competition created by… Continue reading
Hard rock band VenEZ made it to the Top 30 on band survival show Top Band 2, got themselves a label, and released their first digital single in November last year. Today, April 10th, VenEZ returned with digital single Showdown – VenEZ Redux Project No.1 with a 2013 version of 1994 hit drama Last Jump… Continue reading
Last week the second round of sliding stages started on KBS show Top Band 2. The stages continued into episode 9, aired on June 30th, and we’re now ready to share our opinions. 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… Continue reading
It’s a day early, but since episode 8 of KBS show Top Band 2 sort of had two parts that’s the way we’ve portioned our opinions this time. 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… 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
We’re at post sixteen introducing the bands that made it through the first round of auditions for KBS band survival show Top Band 2. The full panel is back together, meaning I’m joined by Lightinthemind of Korean rock is real, Dahee of Dahee’s Plastic Castle, Xtian aka drowningn00b and Ranya of K-Underground Sweden as we all share our opinions on this… Continue reading