More Infos on No Reply's 2nd Album

News about No Reply's 2nd Album have been posted on the Happy Robot Blog.

The album release has been pushed back to September 15 and the current schedule for the album is a photo shooting on August 30, mixing finishing on August 31 and mastering September 1.

Photo and art direction will be done by Saeng Seon (ifishcamp), design by Hong Hwa Ki and Joe Brown, Song Yoon Ik (balance our eARTh) and Yoo Kyung Woo will be in charge of the video recording.

The album title has been decided to be ‘Dream’ to 70%. It will contain 11 songs (including one instrumental) and the title song is slowly settling for ‘내가 되었으면’.

No Reply did all composing and writing, except the lyrics of one song that was written by a high sunbae artist. Beside the ‘family’ (like Daybreaks Kim Seon Il and Kim Jang Won, Serengeti’s Jang Dong Jin and Jung Soo Wan, The Koxx’ Shaun and Naru) also strings, a choir and a brass band has joined No Reply at the performing of instruments.

There will also be a ‘listening event’ at Yes24 starting August 25. The winners will take part at the ‘listening event’ September 9, which will consist of a full listening of the 2nd album, an explanation by No Reply to their album, a small acoustic live (1~2 songs) and a question-answer session.

Another event will be a fansign at Hot Tracks in the Kangnam Kyobo Store September 18.

They will hold their concert for the 2nd Album September 25/26 at Sang Sang Madang. It will be a standing concert, 2 hours full of No Reply, as there will be no guests.

K-League dedicated album

For the '2010 FC Barcelona – K-League All Star match' the K-League Supporter Alliance decided to make an album called 'INTO THE K-LEAGUE'. 6 month later the album has been produced by Rokstarr Music and published on August 4, the day of the match. 13 bands (No. 1 Korean, Super Kidd, Sugar Donut, No Brain, Galaxy Express, Yellow Monsters, Lunatic, The Strikers, Yellow Puffer, Napoleon Dynamite, GoGo Star, Sweet Revenge, GoGo Boys) participated with songs about friendship and dedication to the K-league. The intro 'Here is the Glory' by No Brain's drummer Hwang Hyun Sung was also made the entrance song for the K-League All Star players and decided to be used as the 'K-League Anthem'.

The 13 songs plus intro can be downloaded for free at the K-league website here.(continues on page 2).

Decide for Jaejoo Boy's 4th Album Cover!

Jaejoo Boy's 4th album has been finished and is to be released August 18.
Just the cover of the album is yet to be decided.

In spring they went to Jeju-Do and shot here and there photos without any goal (and played soccer with kids at school and met a child at the bus station that carried a bag larger than their body). Out of the hundreds of photos that have been made there, 5 were filtered out and make possible covers.

Now you can choose which one you like the most and give them your opinion. Look at them and write your answer here. (You don't need an account for that.)

Bye Bye Sea takes a fictional 5th member and goes Drama

Next to some U-Kiss members and a special performance by Teen Top in the 'Inkigayo' studio, Indie band Bye Bye Sea had a surprising appearance at SBS' new drama 'I am Legend'. The drama is about a divorced woman who forms a band and Bye Bye Sea plays here the role of an idol band that's been taken care of by Manager Kang Soo In (played by Jang Shin Young).

The usual 4 member band got an additional 5th member in the drama, Ha Min Gyu (played by Kim Jin Hyoung).

They were chosen to play this role because of the positive recommendation by music director Lee Jae Hyuk. It also has been searched for a talented rock band that's currently active. Producing company A Story thinks that "with the sudden appearance of a real band that's active, the degree of perfection of the drama 'I am Legend', which is centering around music, is raised a lot." And "even though it was their first time acting, they all are looking secure. Please look forward to Bye Bye Sea's high level performance and fresh acting."

Also watchers were surprised by them, saying "Bye Bye Sea's acting is so fresh", "I want them to be regulars in future", or "them acting looks so cute"

On another note, bass Myung Je is giving private lessons as a teacher to actors Hong Ji Min and Lee Joon Hyuk, who need abilities in performing.

The drama will be subtitled by B.O.N. subs.