Archive for May, 2010
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
By Shawn Despres
On Saturday, May 29 Ilsan trio Apollo 18 will play their largest headlining gig to date at Sangsang Madang in Hongdae. The show will be filmed for a live DVD that will surface this coming fall or winter. The group plan to perform two hours worth ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
By Mark
Some fun news for one of the biggest bands in Hongdae, Galaxy Express -- their new album Wild Days is getting launched at the big Music Matters conference (the biggest music industry event in Asia) in Hong Kong this week.
Galaxy's international sales agent, DFSB Kollective, just issued a press ...
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
By Jon Dunbar
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
By Shawn Despres
Formed in 2000, the awesome instrumental math-rock band Toe will play their first concert in Seoul at Live Club Ssam (Ssamzie Space) in Hongdae on Saturday night. Unfortunately, if you don’t already have tickets you’re not going to be able to see them because the gig is ...
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
By Dain
[UPDATE: Jisan and Pentaport lineups updated]
With two multi-day music events happening over the two previous weekends (last weekend's Seoul World DJ Festival and Beautiful Mint Life before that), it seems that the summer music festival season has already kicked off. I wanted to give a brief overview of what ...
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
By Mark
Steven Kim, the founder of the Jisan Valley Rock Festival, has lived in the middle of Korea's live music scene since 1997. He attempted to launch the first summer music festival way back in 1999 with the Triport Rock Festival, but unfortunately a typhoon rained out the fun that ...
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
By Shawn Despres
The timetable for the 4th Seoul World DJ Festival at the Nanji Area of the Han River has been released. Featuring four stages of music, the event starts at 2 pm on Saturday, May 8 and will finish some 16 hours later at around 6 am in ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
By Shawn Despres
After appearances at Austria’s Donaufestival (where they teamed up with Deerhoof to perform Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” in its entirety) and China’s Strawberry Festival, American art pop act Xiu Xiu are visiting South Korea for a trio of concerts in Busan, Daegu, and Seoul this week.
At every show ...
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