‘B-)AND’, Mirrorball Music’s new series that introduces Korean indie bands. B-)AND #1 Band ‘NANPARAN’ Band ‘NANPARAN’, the first team ‘B-)AND’ presents, made a debut by releasing [Summer Wave] last August. NANPARAN is a band comprised of Lee Seongho(vocalist/guitarist), Cho Seunghyeon(guitarist), Park Jinseo(bassist), Cha Yejong(drummer). They captivate various moments that waves or snow make, to express love in the purest way ...

Viva La Vida! To all the Twinkling Youth tvN <Twinkling Watermelon> is a coming-of-age fantasy drama, starring Seol In Ah, Choi Hyunwook, Shin Eunsu and Ryeoun as main leads. Eun-gyeol, a CODA(the only hearing person in a family of deaf people), one day time slips to the 90s and meet his dad Yi-chan, forms a school band called ‘Watermelon Sugar’ with him. The ...

We’re back with the latest K-Indie Chart, fresh off the presses, and this time we’re taking a look at the best-sellers of October. Let’s take a closer look! The newcomes of this chart are ‘Yellow Supernova Remnant’ by TOUCHED, ‘Hard To Explain’ by Nerd Connection and ‘DAWN’ by NUITNUIT. Let’s take a closer look at these new albums. Yellow Supernova ...

Singer-songwriter OOHYO is back with a new EP [OOHYO Returns], celebrating her 9th anniversary of debut. [OOHYO Returns] is an archive of the songs released since 2014. The new EP includes ‘Teddy Bear Returns’, ‘Perhaps Maybe Returns’ and ‘Reggae Returns’, which is the band versions of OOHYO’s favorite tracks – ‘Teddy Bear’, ‘Perhaps Maybe’ and ‘REGGAE’. The newly arranged versions were first performed at Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival this summer. ...

We’re back with the latest Korean Indie chart. Let’s take a closer look at chart of the top hits from the K-indie world from the month of August. Newcomers to this list are Band Nah, Jeon Jin Hee and Dept’s full-length album ‘Persona’. Let’s take a closer look at these three new releases. Band Nah – Festival This almost ten ...

This week we’re proud to share our interview with drummer and producer Choi Gyu-cheol who you might know under his stage name OoOoot! He was a member of the rock band Johnny Royal and a founding members of CADEJO. He’s also performed alongside jazz legend Kim Oki.  As OoOoot he released the new mini-album ‘WANT’. If you want to learn ...

[Mist]Jung Hoon Hee January 1, 1995 ‘Mist’, Jung Hoon Hee‘s debut song released in 1967, inspired director Park Chan-wook for the movie <Decision to Leave>, and was used as a main theme song that accelerates the emotion between two main characters. Jung Hoon Hee performed on the congratulatory stage at ‘Blue Dragon Film Awards’ on November 25. Tang Wei, the lead actress of <Decision ...

Indie singer-songwriter Xeuda recently released her new album ‘Nameless Things’. We absolutely adore the album and decided to ask her some questions about it. Musical beginnings  I have liked to play guitar since high school. I sang the music of Korean folk artists such as Sanullim (‘산울림) and Kim Kwang-seok (김광석). It wasn’t until my mid-20s that I could make ...

Heo Hoy Kyung released her first full album ‘Memoirs’ last week and has subsequently also released a 30 minute short film for the title track ‘My Dear Love’. Heo has only been releasing music since 2021 but she has definitely made an impact on the indie scene with her songwriting and soft vocals. Memoirs We start the album with ‘I ...