Archive for the ‘Random crap’ Category

Boa — Avant Garde and Experimental?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

By Mark Okay, this does not have much to do with live music, but I just ran across this brilliant website and just had to share. I'm talking about Model B, an unauthorized and unofficial tribute to Boa. Apparently a collection of Korean avant garde, electronica artists have gotten together for ...

KGG in Da Press

Monday, March 28th, 2011

By Shawn Despres I meant to post this weeks ago, but have been swamped with other work. Oh well ... better late than never, right? [caption id="attachment_1850" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Surprisingly enough, we didn't break the camera lens! Dain, Mark, and Shawn (L - R) photo by Dylan Goldby"][/caption] Korea Gig Guide ...

Korean Bands in North America — So Far, So Good

Friday, March 18th, 2011

By Mark So I guess our friends who are playing North America at the moment are all about halfway done their tours. And we are starting to get a little press on them. At Canadian Music Week in Toronto, where Seoulsonic took Galaxy Express, Vidulgi Ooyoo, and Idiotape to play last ...

We Need Surgery — From Korea to the World

Monday, February 28th, 2011

By Mark Some fun news, via Korean Homesick Blues -- apparently the long-time Hongdae band We Need Surgery is about to sign a three-album deal with 604 Records, with international distribution by Universal, produced by David Ogilvy. Nothing is signed yet, but they say contracts are on the way (and, as ...

Liars, Liars, KMRB on Fire

Friday, February 11th, 2011

By Mark Another tough break for Supercolorsuper, as they have been forced to cancel their Liars shows this weekend. Apparently someone filed a complaint with the Korea Media Ratings Board, which needs to sign off on all live shows by foreign performers so the artist can get a visa -- and ...

Mucking With the Calendar

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

By Mark Hi all. I was just messing around with the cpanel and some other internal stuff on the site. Nothing too fancy, but pushing the sad limits of my coding knowledge. Anyhow, I think the calendar might be a little easier to read now. But if you dislike the new ...

Annyeong, Club Day

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

By Mark If you have the time to check out Club Day this Friday in Hongdae, you might want to go -- because it looks like this is going to be the last Club Day. At least for a while. Yes, after nearly 10 years and 117 editions, Club Day -- ...

Random Notes

Friday, January 14th, 2011

By Mark Just a few random notes about a few Korean music things: - Moonglow, my favorite jazz bar in Korea, looks like it will be closing in February. But not without a fight. Fans of the bar have started a "Moonglow Lovers" club, to try to raise the funds needed to ...

KGG Staff 2010 Live Faves

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

By Shawn Despres We at Korea Gig Guide are obviously big fans of live music and do our best to get out to as many shows as we possibly can.  Although we all saw many great performances over the last year, we've each compiled lists of the ones that stood ...

Korea Gig Guide Rates a ’10′

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

By Mark Some happy news to report -- the nice people at 10 Magazine have chosen the Korea Gig Guide as their Blog of the Month (BotM?) for November. Winning the BotM award means the KGG will now receive vast amounts of money, fame and endless swag ... er, well, maybe ...