Music’s been a big part of my life since the middle of seventh grade, when I decided that if my sisters could play the flute (and get a lot of attention that way) then I could bloody well do as well on some instrument. My mother rejected my first instrument choices (drums, electric guitar, bagpipes) and finally, after hearing the horn player in INXS, I settled on saxophone. I wanted to be a rock’n’roll sax player because damn, I was sure that women were crazy about that guyÖ

Some Thoughts On Korean Indie Music To start with, this is NOT going to be a sweeping declaration, a wide survey, or anything. It’s just time I got some more content up, and this is something I’ve been finding a lot of resources on, while working on the dabang web page update. This is some musing about indie music in South Korea, just the music itself (since I know little or nothing about the labels, distribution, and, well, the tour circuit is currently close to nonexistent).

Top Ten lists are, as everyone who saw High Fidelity knows all too well, one of the great and ancient hallmarks of a music geek’s thinking. But I normally don’t engage in that. In fact, I’m usually far too haphazard about things. However, I have on occasion been asked to formulate a couple of lists for people who wanted to get into new jazz or explore things that they wouldn’t know to look into unless someone told them about it. I wrote this for a couple of people over on The Culture Mailing List. I know it’s cheating to make …