K-Pop Indie Gem: Standing Egg

Standing Egg is one of those bands that's straddled the line between mainstream and indie skillfully (we even wrote about them a few years ago). While …

SB End-of-Year Review, 2015: K-Indie Rookies Shine

Welcome to our End-of-Year review for 2015! We kick off this year's review with K-Indie. Gaya and Camiele revisit their lists from this year's mid-year…

K-pop Indie Gem: VIVIS

VIVIS came to me in a rush of contemporary dance set to the angel sigh of some of the most ethereal electronic music I’ve ever heard. It was a chance b…

K-Pop Indie Gem: Say Sue Me

Welcome to this week’s Indie Gem! If you’re like me, you welcome the colder weather of fall with open arms. But some of us miss the warmer days of summ…

Women Are Punk: the Women in Choson Punk

K-pop may dominate the airwaves in South Korea, but there’s a burgeoning punk scene in the Hongdae district of Seoul. Directly following the Seoul Olym…

K-pop Indie Gem: Acourve

Despite the rather humid beginning phases of a plum-colored and crisp season here in my niche of the world, I’d like to extend a warm welcome back to a…

K-pop Indie Gem: Vidan

I don’t pretend to know much about traditional Korean music; however, I can appreciate the culture aspects of it and the earthy tone that colors it and…

K-pop Indie Gem: Wasted Johnny’s

Welcome back, Indie Gem fans! This week I would like to talk about one of my recent favorite bands, Wasted Johnny’s. They are a mix of the two very clo…

K-pop Indie Gem: Peterpan Complex

I once read a little poem about the omnipresence of music; one particular set of stanzas continuously prance around in my head the way a danseur makes …

SB Mid-Year Review, 2015: Finding K-indie’s Voices

After looking at the debuts, comebacks, MVs, albums, dances and dramas from the first half of 2015, we conclude this year's mid-year review with a disc…