Roughly two months after reforming as a band, hardcore punk rockers 99anger announced that a new demo is in the making. Two new songs and a re-recording of The Answer will be featured on the demo, which will be made available from MySpace once they’ve finished.
Aquibird returns with another release in English
Acid Jazz/Reggae duo Aquibird will release a “Special English Album” called Whose Dream on May 6.
Park Joon Hyuk debuts on Pastel Music
Tomorrow, April 29, Park Joon Hyuk will make his album debut on Pastel Music. The album is called Private Echo and from it you could also hear his fellow Pastel colleagues Han Hee Jeong/Dawny (of Bluedawn fame) and Cho Ye Jin (of Lucite Tokki), featured on one song each.
Recent Releases (week 17)
Sorry, I believe we’re both slightly too busy in real life at the moment but at last a long overdue post on stuff that has already been released by now: Psych/Garage Pop/Rockers Nunco released their second album, Tales on April 25. A day earlier Peterpan Complex had put out their fourth album, Love, punkers Burning… Continue reading
Tearliner’s “Embrace All” now in Mixed-C version
Fans of Tearliner will be happy to learn that Embrace All (the intro previously posted on his blog in its Guide-1 version) is now available in full in a rich mix making it even better: Embrace All [Mixed-C].
Sorri interview @ K.O.A. Zine
K.O.A. Zine has interviewed bossa nova girl Sorri, talking about her solo work and time in ZzzAaM: Sorri: From Zzzaam to Bossa Nova
Review of The Invisible Fish’s debut EP
One of the suggestions for our competition so far was to write some reviews of our own. I do write album reviews every now and then already, but I post them on last.fm so I’ll just start posting those links too here. Not that I have time to write that many anymore, but tonight I… Continue reading
Report from Sound Party @ Club Ta, April 5
Korea Gig Guide has a report from the orgeltanz and Oriental Lucy performances at Club Ta a couple of weeks ago. You will find it accompanied by a set of pictures here.
The Mustangs’ Acid Trip Review
koreanpop.org posted a piece on progressive/psych rockers The Mustangs’ second album today: Stud rhythm, masculine music: Mustangs, Acid Trip
Upcoming hiphop albums
According to hiphopplaya, a couple of my most anticipated Korean hip hop albums are coming out this month: The Quiett‘s Back On The Beats Mixtape Vol. 1 (April 17th) Loptimist‘s second album Mind-Expander (April 29). A good number of underground American rappers (like K-Otix and Army of The Pharaohs, to name a couple) have made… Continue reading