This article listing Anna’s favorite releases of 2010 was edited by Philip Gowman and first posted on London Korean Links Another year is coming to an end, and in what has become an unfortunate trend I’ve found that I’ve listened to much less music than the year before. However judging from the limited number… Continue reading
The nominees for the 11th annual Korean Music Awards were announced today at 11am, KST. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of music critics and industry experts, making it a Korean version of the Grammy’s. This year the ceremony will take place on February… 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
This year’s edition of the Greenplugged Festival will take place between May 17th-18th. The third line-up announcement was made on April 12th, and the same day the first three songs from this year’s Greenplugged Ombinbus Album Sum∞ debuted online. This is the third year that Greenplugged put out their own compilation, and just like previous… Continue reading
So last week we began to have a look at all the nominees for this year’s Korean Music Awards – the Album, Song, Artist and Rookie of the Year – which means this week we’ll get onto the genre nominations. Recycling a bit of text on the albums and songs already covered in this series,… 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
Yellow Monsters had their EP We Eat Your Dog released in Japan on July 4th as scheduled. The two bonus tracks promised for the release turned out to be “Riot!” and “April 16th (4월 16일)” from the band’s second full-length album. Ahead of the release came a music video for Caution:, full of clips from… Continue reading
Yellow Monsters released mini album We Eat Your Dog in April. Next month the rock trio will make their official Japanese debut as We Eat Your Dog gets a release through 773Four Records on July 4th and with the Japanese market in mind some of the songs are completely in English. Two bonus tracks have… Continue reading
On the latest edition of Gaon’s charts we find Busker Busker‘s first album move up three slots to position 5 since the week before. The songs from the album on the other hand have all moved done the Korean total digital chart and out of their Superstar K3 songs only one remain in the top… Continue reading
Having returned to Korea after the Seoulsonic North America tour Yellow Monsters will release mini album We Eat Your Dog tomorrow, April 24th. Presenting seven songs all written by Yellow Monster’s own Lee Yongwon the mini album includes “눈사람”, released as a digital single prior to the tour. If you didn’t see it already, check… Continue reading