Thanks to Eshe who supported the live report with photos, today I came across this piece written by Shawn Despres: Green Plugged Festival @ Noeul Park, Seoul (May 21st, 2010). It mentions performances by No Reply, Sugar Donut, Humming Urban Stereo and W&Whale before turning very enthusiastic over Galaxy Express. For some more on W… Continue reading
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New from Skasucks and Kangaroo sox reviewed
Enthusiastic reviews for Vidulgi OoyoO and Ninaian
A couple of enthusiastic reviews covering rock in the shoegaze/post-rock spectrum showed up online during the week: Shoegaze and dream pop blog when the sun hits spelled out “A-M-A-Z-I-N-G” when summarizing the bliss.city.east/Vidulgi OoyoO split album: Album Review: Bliss.City.East/Vidulgi OoyoO. Split EP. And in similar terms, over at wakesidevision Ninaian‘s debut effort was judged “absolutely… Continue reading
Kafka’s The Most Beautiful Thing reviewed
New from Postino
Some notes on recent Earip and Sunkyeol EPs
Sweater‘s lovely front woman Earip released her third solo EP, Words From The Breath, on April 28. refresh_daemon shared his thoughts on it today: Inbox: 이아립 – 공기로 만든 노래 Milk Milk Lemonade have had a listen to the lovely EP from Sunkyeol, and also offer a download of sweet track Songstress: Sunkyeol EP
New and semi-recent reviews
As noted earlier, Dear Cloud released their new EP, Take The Air, on August 5. McRoth’s Residence has a review: [Review] Take The Air EP by Dear Cloud. The CD edition of the album will be out on August 11. refresh_daemon has had a listen to acid jazz trio Roller Coaster‘s 2002 live album: Inbox:… Continue reading
Reviews from the last few months
As I was gathering some fairly recent reviews for a post, I added release info for the releases not previously mentioned here, and put the rest in a list. I should probably have stopped in June, but then I recalled some really good reviews from May and kept expanding the list. And after going that… Continue reading
Kafka & Kingston Rudieska in new Groove Korea
A new issue of Groove Korea will be out soon, and so a few interesting articles showed up in my feed reader today. Kingston Rudieska put out their second full length album, Ska Bless You, on July 29 and it was reviewed for Groove by Chris in South Korea: Review: Ska Bless You by Kingston… Continue reading
Link roundup
A collection of recent links that may be of interest: Yuns of Korean blog Melody Design has written a bit on Jisan Valley and got it translated to English: Fantastic Finale to Jisan Valley Rock Festival. More on the festival in question was posted here two days ago. Violet Sweets reports that ByeBye Sea are… Continue reading