[No Reply] Fashonista Gwon Sungwan

Now it has been finallyy revealed. Sungwan is a fashion leader.

As fashionista Sungwan points out the importance of the socks. The socks are the main point of every outfit, so he carefully chooses his socks together with No Reply's stylist before every performance, preferably fitting to his jacket for a perfect look.

Fashion Leader Gwon Sungwan!

Fashion's finish: socks?!

socklove. Sungwan!
This day ... fitting to the color of the jacket,
so you chose these socks ^^

(from Sweet Sorrow's Tenten Club)

[No Reply] Little View on 2010

After finsihing their Encore Concert 'Road 4' successful, No Reply will hold a 'Final Road' concert end of February next year. This will be the last performance for their first album, right after that they will go over working on their 2nd album which is planned to be released around May~June.

During that time Sungwan helps one of his Seonbaes with composing for his new album and Wookjae becomes a producer for a newcomer for the new Mintpaper compilation LIFE.

[Super Kidd] Digital Single for Snowboarders

After their special summer album 'Music Show', Super Kidd comes back with a special digital single for snowboarders in winter 2009. The single has been released 22th already but just got a music video later. The song, produced by guitarist Jwanikim(좌니킴), reminds of an exciting snowboard ride in the fresh snow, so it has been decided that Korea's best snowboarders Bong Min Ho and Lee Ki Young will appear in the music video that was be shot in New Zealand.


some nice carving.

[Broken Valentine] New EP

I don't know how well known Broken Valentine is.

Broken Valentine was first named '6.August' in 2002, 'B.August' in 2004 and named 2007 as the now known 'Broken Valentine'. Their Discographie contains a digital EP 'Alien' that was released in 2005 and a self-produced EP called 'Answer Me!! Is that what you NEED??' in 2007. Now they're coming back under the same label as Phonebooth and releasing their new EP called 'Calling You'. The title track '내 낡은 서랍 속의 바다' is a cover from Panic.

They are getting the most attention being called 'Korea's represantative Rock Band' as they won 2008 in a contest, chosen to representate Korea in 2009 11th Asian Beat Grand Final. Competing against other Asian countries they won first place and the award for Best Composing.

The new EP also brings a teaser. The EP has been released 22th December already.



if you want to know more about them ask me or visit their daum cafe

[Pony] Activities

For People who were curious if Flowerboy Band Pony was planning something new, they're not.

Their Fancafe announced that they will be active performing until the end of 2009 and starting January the members will follow their own activities, thus Pony will take a break starting next year.

[Apollo18] Violet Recordings to Start Soon

Apollo18 Bassist Kim Dae In wrote in the fancafe that despite the cold weather Apollo18 did shoot their teaser video for Violet in a tree garden.
The mastering for Red+ started on monday and recording for Violet will start soon after that.

They are busy but everything procedes well and it seems they can do everything as planned.

[TUNE] And His Tattoo

Tune posted at his blog the history about his tattoo.

Right after Tune's logo was finished he decided to have a tattoo of "TUNE" and his first album title "TUNE your mind". But since it is the first time he has a tattoo, he was also worried ... for 0.03seconds.

Before getting a tattoo he consulted musicians around him that already have one and mentioned that especially the thoughtful and careful advices from Yozoh were good.
The artdirector who made the logo together with TUNE and the tattoo artist sat together planning out the exact size needed and to avoid any errors during tattooing. Even though a lot of people told that it hurts, Tune said that it was just a pricking, not huting at all. The only thing was the tension during the 1 hour job.
Thinking about what he should call his second album, people around him are starting to ask if he will have a tattoo everytime he releases a new album. He said that if he would do it, he would be all over album titles when he's 50 then and no space for movie mementos...

He also warns before making a tattoo, to think carfully about it, since it stays for a very long time, and to not have regrets later.
For people who think "Tattoo=scary guy", he wants them to see it as a kind of art, like hip hop and rock music, like graffiti or videos are, and wants them to recognize the diversity of tattoos.

Actually TUNE wanted the photo with his fist and the tattoo to be a jacket photo, but even though it wasn't used as that, he's comfortable with showing at the beginning and end of a performance.

On another note, his third music video for '달려가잖아' is in work and is probably going to be released in January next year.

[No Reply] Sungwan's New Hair

Sungwan complained about his hair during No Reply's 3rd concert. His front hair has been cut too short and he said that he will never trust the person who cuted it again. See it in one of the photos that were uploaded in their fancafe here.

A casual remark from Wookjae revealed then that Sungwan's hair wasn't cutted, he cutted it himself. Sungwan's words to Wookjae contained a several hatred from this point on and the talk about hair went through the whole concert.

The concert went successfully and beside No Reply's family and friends also collegues like Jung Soo Wan (Serengeti), Naru, Kim Dong Ryul and others visited the concert. Naru was also added as guest for the upcoming encore performance 'Road 4' that procedes 26~27th December.

[Happy Robot] New Artists for 2010

Posting new informations on the Happy Robot Blog, it has been said that 2010 2 new Teams will come to Happy Robot. Both of them are said to be fully male. Probably not being able to hold it back, exact informations may already follow at the end of December.
Hints have been posted in form of little, photoshopped photos. Eagle-eyed(?) fans recognized easily that the second group is Daybreak, who also participated at the Hello Rookie this year.

It also implies a project group, with one member out of each team. Maybe a soccer team. A male synchronized swimming team would work too... that's what the entry says...

[W&Whale] Marriage

W&Whale member Kim Sang Hoon(34) will marry on 12th December.

He will marry the 4 years younger ex-stylist of W&Whale in Kangnam at 1pm.
Who will join the meal hasn't been decided yet but marriage photos have been revealed.




Congratulations~
(He normally plays the Drums, sometimes also Bass and Guitar)

Collaboration Album for Jo Duk Bae

Wheesung, W&Whale, Black Skirts, MBlack, M To M, JK Kim Dong Wook and others gathered for the 25th Anniversary Album for Jo Duk Bae. On 7th 'Part 1' has been released, consisting of two songs; one is the song '슬픈 노래는 부르지 않을 거야' in a new version by W&Whale and for the other one Black Skirts collaborated with Kebee, remaking '뒷모습이 참 예쁘네요'. All in all 10 songs will be published and 'Part 2' and 'Part 3' will follow beginning of the next month. Whereas 'Part 1' was made in an electronic arrangement, 'Part 2' and 'Part 3' will be remade under the R&B and pop-dance genres.

Jo Duk Bae made his debut 1984 with his song '나의 옛날 이야기' and gained after that a lot of popularity through songs like '꿈에' and '그대 내맘에 들어오면'. He suddenly collapsed due to a cerebral hemorrhage in April, what made the singers helping him with an album. He has recovered a lot and also went to the recording studio to greet the singers and participated in the album, watching over the recordings.

[Midnight Stitch] Homepage Open

Midnight Stitch released their first single 'Moonlight' 9th October. Now they come with a new single 'Broken Ear'. Both are digital singles, but an album release is set for March and before that at least one more single.

Midnight Stitch is also the name of their cafe in Seoul. They are also Designers, what is not deniable seeing their cafe. the coffee tastes good too.

Anyway, for a long time the address www.midnightstitch.com didn't contain much but a picture. Now the homepage is finally opened, even though not everything is enabled yet.

They also have a myspace where you can listen into their songs here.

[Annyeong Bada] Mini Album Release

Annyeong Bada (or translated by Fluxus to 'ByeBye Sea')is a band that is in the Indie Scene for 2 years already but has not released any album yet (as far as I know). Now they are going to release their first Mini Album 'Boy's Univers' under Fluxus. The songs and lyrics are written and composed by leader and vocal Namu and are produced by the three guys from W. The five songs contain a story about our generation's growth ache.

The Mini Album will be released December 7th.



Track List

1. 내 맘이 말을 해 (3:25)
2. 별 빛이 내린다 (3:45)
3. Soon (2:52)
4. Beautiful Dance (3:11)
5. 어둠이 깊을수록 별은 더욱 빛난다 (3:01)


Also did Annyeong Bada a shoot for Indie2Go on 26th November in a cafe called 'Mug For Rabbit' where they did a part time job during the last years. Photos where already posted here. And the video got posted some minutes ago -_-; youtube-link

[Rasperry Field] Soy's Acting Career

Soy's list of roles gets a bit longer with the sudden appearance in High kick Through The Roof on wednesday (December 3rd). She plays the ex-girlfriend of Julien, proving her english skills.


The subs aren't perfect (as you will recognize) they're just there to understand the story better and done in quite a hurry.

Listening to the rumors in Rasperry Field's fancafe, Soy seems to be working hard on Rasperry Field's Single, but before that there will be a music video.

[Naru] New Album in February~March?

Sombrero updated his Mintpaper blog with some updates on release dates. One of them is Naru's 2nd album. Seems Naru continued his work on his new album as all the recordings with instruments are finished and just the vocals are done with a guide. Sombrero also stated that listening to the songs, from an unique view someone would think of Seo Taiji.

The album is planned to be released around February~March.
Also for this album Naru is doing all himself, vocal, performance of the instruments and even the recording.

[Oh Ji Eun] tries Anime

News about Oh Ji Eun were posted at the Happy Robot weblog.

Oh Ji Eun will be singing the opening for an animation. The animation still processes secretly and it is not sure if it will be shown on TV or not. Being rather for teens than small children the contents of the Anime will probably be Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller.

Besides that she is also working on an essay book, that is planned to be released between spring and summer next year.

Also, there will be maybe a new album in May next year already. But before that a release of an album with Japanese songs is planned.

[Phonebooth] 2 New Songs

Phonebooth had their first concert 13th November where they also played two other songs from their 2nd album. Over at R.O.K Scene you can watch very well done fancams of 'Glassdoor' and 'Revolver'.

No release date for the 2nd album yet.