Another month with the Music Alliance Pact! This is the 36th MAP in which Indieful ROK has participated making it 3 years! Enjoy the songs below and pay special attention to the Korean pick of the month, Coedwig.

Right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a .zip file of the whole 35-track compilation via MediaFire.

SOUTH KOREA: Indieful ROK
Coedwig - Let Her Go
Street folk artist Neofolk has gotten himself a band member and formed the unit Coedwig. Let Her Go is one of the indie rock numbers on the recently self-released first EP, which also contains a couple of acoustic tracks - a sound that is very popular in Korea at the moment.

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Hello, refresh_daemon here for your next recap and review of "I Am a Singer". This week I am again joined by our esteemed commentators, The Korean of Ask a Korean! and widhi. After several weeks of special episodes with special themes or events, this week returns to the regular format of the show, with the singers selecting a song of their choice to perform for the audience of five hundred. In addition, since we saw Cho Kyuchan eliminated last round, we have a new singer joining this round.

Click behind the jump to see what we have to say about the show and leave your thoughts and picks in the comments!

All performances can be watched from Bugs Music's special 나는 가수다 site. Click the tab saying "11월 6일 방송" to find the performances discussed below.

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Apologies for the slow updates would've been in order for quite a while, but I hope you'll have patience with me for another while. I'm visiting Korea at the moment, and today I'm getting married to by husband again - traditional Korean wedding style! Making it all the more special, we've lined up some of our favorite bands - Dringe Augh, Achime, Jambinai, National Pigeon Unity, Vassline - to play at Club Spot after the wedding and if you too wish to come by you are more than welcome to do so: Wedding Celebration Show.

Next week I'll be guiding my family and friends from Sweden around Seoul and after that time has finally come for the honeymoon. Meanwhile refresh_daemon will keep the I Am A Singer posts coming, now supported by my dear Widhi and none other than The Korean (of Ask A Korean fame) himself! When I'm back there'll be some pretty big changes related to my involvement with new site koreanindie.com, but Indieful ROK will continue to live on albeit in a slightly different format. See you later!

This recap of an extra special episode of "I Am a Singer" is extra special itself! With Anna away in Korea for the time being, today we feature two guest commentators, widhi, who contributes to Indieful ROK as well as the Indieful ROK Spot on TBS eFM's radio show Indieful Afternoon in Korea, as well as, none other than, The Korean of Ask a Korean!, both who are regular viewers of the show. The episode itself takes a break from the main competition and features past performers from "I Am a Singer" performing for the Melbourne audience of two thousand and having a competition among themselves, too.

Click behind the jump to see what we have to say about the show and leave your thoughts and picks in the comments!

All performances can be watched from Bugs Music's special 나는 가수다 site. Click the tab saying "10월 30일 방송" to find the performances discussed below.

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