Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Little update on Delight's current work

Delight's dk posted on twitter that '절름발이' is a digital single being released tomorrow, June 24. He also said that they finished preparations for a promotional CD, promotional stickers, a music video and some special event.

No Reply's Keyboard Sungwan gets a guitar

During their concert Road 4, No Reply's Sungwan and Wookjae changed instruments on request of the fans. Even though Sungwan said he don't like to play guitar, because his fingers hurt, he just bought his very first electric guitar.
He wanted a guitar for simple recording, but after all his desires grew and he spent more money than he thought he would. Nevertheless he has no regrets about it, he loves his guitar and its icetea color.



No Reply is currently working on their 2nd album that is supposed to have it's release September 9. Besides that Sungwan is appearing in Lee Seung Hwan's music video '완벽한 추억'. He composed the song himself and it is the 2nd(or new?) titlesong from Lee Seung Hwan's 10th album.

Music Travel LaLaLa brings Indie and Idols together

Today, June 23rd, one day after South Korean football team got into the 16s, MBC will boradcast a new (already recorded) episode of Music Travel LaLaLa, bringing a new variety of collaborations. Those are Super Junior and Park Sae Byul, Guckkasten and f(x), Jung In and Zitten, IU and tomtom.

List of songs is as following:
Super Junior & Park Sae Byul - 그대 내게 다시 (from Park Jin Sup)
Super Junior & Park Sae Byul - 사랑인가요
Super Junior & Park Sae Byul - 미인아 (BONAMANA)
IU & tomtom - Slow Motion (from Karina)
IU & tomtom - 1994년 어느 늦은 밤 (from Jang Hye Jin)
Jung In & Zitten - TV Show
Jung In & Zitten - 미워요
Guckkasten & f(x) - Vitriol
Guckkasten & f(x) - Don't Speak (from No Doubt)
Jung In & Zitten & Kim Chang Wan - 내가 갖고 싶은 건 (from Kim Chang Wan Band)

You can watch a preview here.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Guckkasten and CN Blue performing live on Music Core

Idol band group CN Blue and Hongdae Indie band Guckkasten prepared a special live for Music Core. Due problems with time and technical specials, it has been prerecorded June 16 and will be broadcasted in the live show June 19.

Representatives said that it has been a worry to not have enough genres and to be not able to satisfy the audience with just ballads and danceble tracks. They hope to fill the watchers needs through this.

One article said that CN Blue performed Guckkasten's 'Mirror' (other articles are not going further on who played what) so a guess is that Guckkasten performed CN Blue's 'Love'.
Everyone performed their own songs.(thank you rina)

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

[New Albums] What’s Coming Up?


After 5 years Modern Rock Band Monni brought out their 2nd album yesterday, Monday June 14. The album has been produced by Jaurim’s Guitarist Lee Sun Gyu and mixed by Bassist Kim Jin Man. The title song of the album ‘This Moment’ is 나를 떠나가던 and there is also a music video for it. At the same time of the release, their official homepage www.monni.co.kr has been opened.


Today, Tuesday, June 15, the KOXX’ very first EP ‘Enter’ will be released. Happy Robot gave some head ups on the band and the tracks. The Electro Rock band started through at the 2009 Hello Rookie and their average age is 21,5. They gathered around drummer Shin Sa Ron at the end of 2008 and before they had the current line-up, vocal Lee Hyun Song was also drummer and Synthesizer Shaun was also a guitarist. They appeared on festivals and performed in small and big clubs and received attention not just from national clubbers but also foreigners with their Daft Punk medley.
The first song on their EP ‘531’ is an intro to the 2nd track ‘ACDC’, 531 being the number of days from their forming to their first mini album release. ‘ACDC’ has nothing to do with the band AC/DC, it is simply the name of notes, like ‘Ra Do Re Do’. The next song ‘Over and Over’ is a new song they didn’t perform that often. Under the members it’s called ‘super song’; it’s based on garage rock, but has a relatively popish sound. ‘A Fool Moon Night’ is a ballad; the members explain it is best to listen to during a jogging in a bright moon night. The song ‘얼음땡’ is a love song to the expression ‘Koxx’. The last song ‘Trouble Maker’ is a danceable number that represents the Koxx with its dynamic sound and at every performance it made the audience enjoy to their limits.


A lot of you may already know, Zitten releases their new EP ‘Wonderland’ June 17. Yesterday, June 14, Pastelmusic released next to a two part reality video, a music video for ‘TV Show’. A live version of this song will be posted June 22.
After Yoon Hyung Ro came back from army last autumn, they worked on the EP and it looked like they’d be finished in winter, but Sung Yong Uk got sick and it had to be delayed an uncertain time. Yong Uk recovered and they finished the work. The album art will be done by Japanese illustrator Marumiyan, who already worked for the 1st album.


Naru’s 2nd album ‘Yet’ is set to be released on June 29th. A track list and cover have been revealed. You can also listen to 3 previews on Hyang. ‘Yet’ has, compared to the first album, more electronic elements. So is for example the interlude ‘Spring!!!’ that can be compared to ‘Take Off’ a more electronic arrangement.
Even though there have been made plenty of jacket photos, it is still not sure if there will be actually photos in it or if the album will consist like the first one just of Naru’s own drawings.

A new formation called ‘Yellow Monkeys’ has been brought up, consisting of GumX’ Young Won as lead vocal and guitar, Delispice’s Choi Jae Hyuk as drummer and vocal, and My Aunt Mary’s Han Jin Yeong as bass and vocal. Han Jinyeong wrote on his personal blog ‘see you in July’ and some time ago he posted that recording has been finished. They have performed already at the Time To Rock Festival though. Their homepage is yellowmonsters.net


Delight’s dk gives his fans a new mistery announcing that Delight is working on something(a new record) called ‘절름발이’(cripple)

Sunday, June 6, 2010

[Misty Blue] Last Performance

Pastelmusic's twitter announced that Misty Blue will have its last concert 'Goodbye Misty Blue' June 20th at club ta. This will be the last performance under the name 'Misty Blue'. Bass Kyung Hoon wrote at his blog "During the first performance in 2003 there was just one person watching; that we could come until here was a generous happiness. Thinking of it, there are so many people I'm thankful to. Thank you to all the people who took interest in us."

[Lala Sweet] Interview with Mintpaper

Lala Sweet consists of guitar and vocal Kim Hyuna and keyboard Park Byul. April 29th they released their first EP and made their song ‘good bye’ known through the Mintpaper compilation LIFE and the 1Night 2Days preview on next episode with Kim C leaving the show. They made their debut with ‘나의 낡은 오렌지나무’ winning silver at the University Music Competition.
Growing up with listening to rock music, they met in their teens at a place where they went to learn instruments. After some time they decided to make their own music that is just made of guitar and piano and they started Lala Sweet.
When they were traveling to India, they discovered a store called ‘Lala Sweet’. They found the name cute and wrote it down. When they were searching for a name for them that was ‘easy to say, pretty in Latin letters and Hangeul and without any embarrassing meaning’, they remembered it.

Mintpaper had a little Interview with them that I thought was interesting (and easy) enough to translate.