It’s mid-March and just a day away from the start of the world’s largest music showcase festival–South by Southwest–in Austin, Texas. The music portion of SXSW 2016 lasts from March 15 to March 20 and offers more than 2,000 showcasing artists. 16 of those are Korean. Anna’s Recommendations Chris from Korean Indie took the… 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
It’s been five months since we concluded our last commentary series, but with Mnet announced a new band survival show I saw a new chance to get invested in a Korean TV. Participants from previous panels here on the site were invited to once again share their opinion publicly and for the first episode of… Continue reading
With less than two months to go before the Music part of SXSW 2013 kicks off in Austin, the SX Schedule is out though actual dates and venues are yet to come. As noted previously 3rd Line Butterfly, Galaxy Express, Goonam, Lowdown 30 and No Brain are all ready for the festival. Now Windy City… Continue reading
Today SXSW made the third announcement with bands scheduled to play SXSW 2013. New on the list were 3rd Line Butterfly, that played the festival already last year as one of the Seoulsonic 2012 bands, and the three bands that will be touring North America as part of Seoulsonic 2013: Goonam (previously Goonamguayeoridingstella), Lowdown 30… Continue reading
Rock band Pia made their first appearance on Immortal Song 2 during the Lee Seung Hwan special, broadcast on September 1st. With a couple of camel statues on stage, Pia made Lee Seung Hwan’s “붉은 낙타” into their own also inviting No Brain‘s Lee Sung Woo to sing on stage. Prior to their performance vocalist Yohan had… Continue reading
Kim Banjang‘s reggae band Windy City is back with a digeridoo player in the lineup. On June 1st the band is releasing digital single 잔치레게 including not just a song with the same name, but also both a radio edit and an instrumental version of the same. Ahead of the release came an entertaining trailer:
refresh_daemon just posted a review of reggae band Windy City‘s album debut from 2005, Love Record, on his new music blog Init_Music: Inbox: Windy City – Love Record