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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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Saturday, April 24th, 2010
By Shawn Despres
Presented by Seoul imprint Estella Records, the two-day Lotus Carnival brings together a top-notch lineup of the label’s acts and like-minded artists for shows at Club Spot in Hongdae on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25.
Although I’m looking forward to most of the performances, my personal pick ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
By Mark
The Jisan Valley Rock Festival has announced another round of acts for this year's music fest -- Vampire Weekend, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kula Shaker, Martina Topley-Bird and Diane Birch are the latest to join the lineup.
That is in addition to the already announced Belle & Sebastian, Massive Attack and ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
By Jon Dunbar
This weekend all the excitement should be at Club Spot, where ...Whatever That Means will be releasing their first EP, full of melodic punk tracks from this American/Korean band.
Anybody find it a little unsettling that husband-and-wife Jeff and Trash are depicted here as brother-and-sister Luke and Leia? ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
By Shawn Despres
Korean duo The Sagitta will play their first Seoul show in 10 months on March 26 at Mudaeryuk.
Formed in 2003, the husband-and-wife pairing of Lee Woo Sung and Lee Jung Eun, who some may know as Cocore's guitarist (Woo Sung) and manager (Jung Eun), have ...
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
By Mark
So I have been poking around on the various live music websites that are scattered across the Internet. I had no idea there were so many these days. I had been struggling with near-useless, last-generation sites like Pollstar, so was amazed how much things have changed. Now there are ...
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
By Shawn Despres
The concert promotion team Open Your Eyes, which includes Ki Seok Seo from The Geeks/Things We Say and Cliff Alexander from Shellback (along with Bomb, a former roadie for The Geeks), are bringing Strike Anywhere to Seoul on Monday, March 1.
Formed in 1999, the American quintet ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
By Shawn Despres
The third installment of the popular Wild Women's Performing Arts Festival takes place in Sinchon at Monghwan on Saturday, February 27. The event, which will include a wide array of musical, dance, and spoken word performances, aims to raise awareness about gender issues in Korea and around ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
By Mark
Just a quick note that Chris Backe's blog has a review of last weekend's Kimchibilly (rockabilly) concert at Sangsang Madang in Hongdae. Quite thorough and well worth a read. The post has plenty of pics, too.
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